IndianOil Sports Stars nominated for the prestigious Arjuna Awards
Mumbai 26-Aug-2015
IndianOil sport stars, member of Indian Cricket Team, Rohit Sharma and World no. 3 badminton shuttler K Srikanth have been nominated for Arjuna Awards this year. To be eligible for the Arjuna award, sportsperson should have had not only performed consistently for the previous four years at the international level, but also shown qualities of leadership, sportsmanship and a sense of discipline.
IndianOil has the proud distinction of having 13 Arjuna awardees amongst its glittering squad of sports stars. IndianOil’s P. Gopichand, has not only been conferred with the Arjuna Award(1999), but other prestigious awards like Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (2001), Padma Shri (2005), Dronacharya Award(2009), and Padma Bhushan( 2014).
IndianOil has been championing cause of sports development for over three decades now. In line with the sports policy it adopted in 1985, the Corporation has over the years, recruited many promising sportspersons, who have gone on to reach their peak in their chosen disciplines. Since 2006, IndianOil has also been conferring sports scholarships to promising young sports persons representing the State in indoor and outdoor games. The scheme which started in 2006 with 55 scholarships in 7 games / sports has now been augmented to offer 150 scholarships for 19 games/ sports to upcoming junior players between 14 -19 years of age.
At present many of IndianOil’s employees, recruited under the sports categories, are playing in international circuits and earning distinctions for the country. Few of IndianOil’s sports personalities include Aditya Mehta (Billiards and Snooker) - country’s top cueist; Grandmaster S.S.Ganguly , B. Adhibam, Lalit Babu (Chess) ; Indian cricket team members Rohit Sharma , Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara; K Srikanth, P Kashyap and P Gopichand (Badminton); Sharath Kamal (Table Tennis); Raghunath VR and Baljit Singh (Hockey) , Yogesh Pardeshi (carom).
