President Murmu presents national sports and adventure awards at Rashtrapati Bhavan

President Droupadi Murmu presented the Sports and Adventure Awards at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 13 November 2026. The presentation brought together several award categories. These included the Arjuna Awards and Dronacharya Awards for 2025, the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Awards for 2024 and the Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar for 2025. The ceremony date therefore needs to be recorded separately from the year attached to each honour.

The Arjuna awardees included Tejaswin Shankar and Priyanka Goswami in athletics, Treesa Jolly and Pullela Gayatri Gopichand in badminton, and Vidit Santosh Gujarathi in chess. Among the Dronacharya recipients were athletics coach Parveer Singh, boxing coach Chhote Lal Yadav and shooting coach Neha Nandkumar Chavan. The recipient list also included lifetime coaching recognition for wrestling coach Virender Kumar and boxing coach Dharmendra Singh Yadav. This provides two useful groups for revision: athletes associated with their sports and coaches associated with their training disciplines.

Facts to remember

• Presenter and venue: President Droupadi Murmu, Rashtrapati Bhavan; ceremony on 13 November 2026.
• Arjuna and Dronacharya awards presented at this ceremony carried the year 2025.
• The Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Awards presented carried the year 2024.
• Tejaswin Shankar: athletics; Treesa Jolly: badminton; Vidit Santosh Gujarathi: chess.

Background

The awards distinguish recognition of sporting achievements from recognition of coaching. In this presentation, the Dronacharya citations described the recipients’ work in training athletes, while Arjuna citations identified the athletes and their competitive achievements. Adventure recognition formed a separate category within the same ceremony. Keeping these categories apart prevents errors when an examination asks for an award and recipient pairing.

Why it matters for exams

For CLAT general knowledge and sports current affairs, revise the presenter, venue, award years and sport-specific recipient pairings. Judiciary, APO, AIBE and UGC-NET Law aspirants can use this as a concise honours revision note.