Union Minister of Youth Affairs & Sports Shri Anurag Thakur conferred the first ever SAI Institutional Awards to 246 athletes and coaches on November 17, 2021, in New Delhi in the presence of the Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports Shri NisithPramanik. Secretary of Department of Sports Smt. Sujata Chaturvedi, DG SAI Shri Sandip Pradhan, and other officials of the Ministry were also present on this occasion.
From the total 246 awardees, 162 athletes and 84 coaches were honored in the Outstanding Award and Best Award category. The awards have been given for the exceptional performance of the SAI athletes and coaches at national and international competitions from 2016 under the various sports promotion schemes.
The awards acknowledge the exceptional performance of the SAI athletes and coaches under the various sports promotion schemes at the national and international level from 2016. The inaugural awards have been granted to the deserving candidates for the years of 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, and 2019-20.
