Dronacharya Award
Dronacharya Award is an award presented by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, government of India for excellence in sports coaching. The award comprises a bronze statuette of Dronacharya, a scroll of honour and a cash component of Rs.7,00,000. The award was instituted in 1985.
As the best sportsperson award is named Arjuna Award, it is appropriate that the coaching award is named after Dronacharya, as he was the teacher of Arjuna.
Selection Process
The Criteria for giving Dronacharya Award to coaches is mentioned in this PDF File.
List of Recipients
Anoop Singh
Wrestling
Nagapuri Ramesh
Athletics
Bishweshwar Nandi
Gymnastics
Nihar Ameen
Swimming
Ganapathy Manoharan
Boxing
Rajkumar Sharma
Cricket
Mahabir Prasad
Wrestling
Sagar Mal Dhayal
Boxing
Mahavir Singh Phogat
Wrestling
S. Pradeep Kumar
Swimming
List of Award Recipients, Showing the Year, and Discipline(s)
| Year | Recipient(s) | Discipline(s) |
| 1985 | Bhalachandra Bhaskar Bhagwat | Wrestling |
| 1985 | Om Prakash Bhardwaj | Boxing |
| 1985 | O. M. Nambiar | Athletics |
| 1986 | Desh Prem Azad | Cricket |
| 1986 | Raghunandan Vasant Gokhle | Chess |
| 1987 | Guru Hanuman | Wrestling |
| 1987 | Gurcharan Singh | Cricket |
| 1988 | ||
| 1989 | ||
| 1990 | Ramakant Achrekar | Cricket |
| 1990 | Syed Naeemuddin | Football |
| 1990 | A. Ramana Rao | Volleyball |
| 1991 | ||
| 1992 | ||
| 1993 | ||
| 1994 | Ilyas Babar | Athletics |
| 1995 | M. Shyam Sunder Rao | Volleyball |
| 1995 | Karan Singh | Athletics |
| 1996 | Wilson Jones | Billiards & Snooker |
| 1996 | Pal Singh Sandhu | Weightlifting |
| 1997 | Joginder Singh Saini | Athletics |
| 1998 | G. S. Sandhu | Boxing |
| 1998 | Hargobind Singh Sandhu | Athletics |
| 1998 | Bahadur Singh Chouhan | Athletics |
| 1999 | Kenneth Owen Bosen | Athletics |
| 1999 | Hawa Singh | Boxing |
| 1999 | Ajay Kumar Sirohi | Weightlifting |
| 2000 | S. M. Arif | Badminton |
| 2000 | Gudial Singh Bhangu | Hockey |
| 2000 | Bhupender Dhawan | Powerlifting |
| 2000 | Gopal Pushottam Phadke | Kho kho |
| 2000 | Hansa Sharma | Weightlifting |
| 2001 | Michael Joseph Ferreira | Billiards & Snooker |
| 2001 | Sunny Thomas | Shooting |
| 2002 | Maharaj Krishan Kaushik | Hockey |
| 2002 | Renu Kohli | Athletics |
| 2002 | Homi Motivala | Yatching |
| 2002 | E. Prasad Rao | Kabaddi |
| 2002 | Jaswant Singh | Athletics |
| 2003 | Sukhchain Singh Cheema | Wrestling |
| 2003 | Robert Bobby George | Athletics |
| 2003 | Anoop Kumar | Boxing |
| 2003 | Rajinder Singh Jr. | Hockey |
| 2004 | Cyrus Poncha | Squash |
| 2004 | Arvind Savur | Billiards & Snooker |
| 2004 | Sunita Sharma | Cricket |
| 2005 | Ismail Baig | Rowing |
| 2005 | Maha Singh Rao | Wrestling |
| 2005 | Balwan Singh | Kabaddi |
| 2005 | M. Venu | Boxing |
| 2006 | Koneru Ashok | Chess |
| 2006 | Damodaran Chandralal | Boxing |
| 2006 | R. D. Singh | Athletics |
| 2007 | Jagdish Singh | Boxing |
| 2007 | Jagminder Singh | Wrestling |
| 2007 | Sanjeeva Kumar Singh | Archery |
| 2007 | G. E. Sridharan | Volleyball |
| 2008 | ||
| 2009 | Jaydev Bisht | Boxing |
| 2009 | Pullela Gopichand | Badminton |
| 2009 | S. Baldev Singh | Hockey |
| 2009 | Satpal Singh | Wrestling |
| 2010 | Subhash Agarwal | Billiards & Snooker |
| 2010 | Ajay Kumar Bansal | Hockey |
| 2010 | Captain Chandrup | Wrestling |
| 2010 | A. K. Kutty | Athletics |
| 2010 | L Ibomcha Singh | Boxing |
| 2011 | Devender Kumar Rathore | Gymnastics |
| 2011 | Kuntal Kumar Roy | Athletics |
| 2011 | Ramphal | Wrestling |
| 2011 | Inukurthi Venkateshwara Roy | Boxing |
| 2011 | Rajinder Singh Jr. | Hockey |
| 2012 | Jasvinder Singh Bhatia | Athletics |
| 2012 | Sunil Dabas | Kabaddi |
| 2012 | B. I. Fernandez | Boxing |
| 2012 | Bhawani Mukherjee | Table Tennis |
| 2012 | Virender Poonia | Athletics |
| 2012 | Satyapal Singh | Athletics |
| 2012 | Harendra Singh | Hockey |
| 2012 | Yashvir Singh | Wrestling |
| 2013 | Purnima Mahato | Archery |
| 2013 | Narender Singh Saini | Hockey |
| 2013 | Mahavir Singh | Boxing |
| 2013 | Raj Singh | Wrestling |
| 2013 | K. P. Thomas | Athletics |
| 2014 | Gurcharan Gogi | Judo |
| 2014 | Jose Jacob | Rowing |
| 2014 | N. Lingappa | Athletics |
| 2014 | Ganapathy Manoharan | Boxing |
| 2014 | Mahabir Prasad | Wrestling |
| 2015 | Nihar Ameen | Swimming |
| 2015 | Anoop Singh | Wrestling |
| 2015 | Harbans Singh | Athletics |
| 2015 | Naval Singh | Athletics |
| 2015 | Swatantar Raj Singh | Boxing |
| 2016 | Sagar Mal Dhayal | Boxing |
| 2016 | S. Pradeep Kumar | Swimming |
| 2016 | Bishweshwar Nandi | Gymnastics |
| 2016 | Mahavir Singh Phogat | Wrestling |
| 2016 | Nagapuri Ramesh | Athletics |
| 2016 | Rajkumar Sharma | Cricket |