Year Recipient Name Year Recipient Name

Gurbachan Singh
1961 1988 Ashwini Nachappa
Randhawa
1962 Tarlok Singh 1989 Mercy Kuttan
1963 Stephie D'Souza 1990 Deena Ram
1964 Makhan Singh 1992 Bahadur Prasad
1965 Kenneth Powell 1993 K. Saramma
1966 Ajmer Singh, B. S. Barua 1994 Rosa Kutty
Praveen Kumar, Bhim
1967 1995 Shakti Singh, Jyotirmoyee Sikdar
Singh
Joginder Singh, Manjit
1968 1996 Ajit Bhaduria, Padmini Thomas
Walia
1969 Harnek Singh 1997 Reeth Abraham
Sirichand Ram, Neelam Jaswant
1970 Mohinder Singh Gill 1998 Singh, S. D. Eshan, Rachita
Mistry, Paramjit Singh
Gulab Chand, Gurmit Kaur,
1971 Edward Sequeira 1999
Parduman Singh, Sunita Rani
1972 Vijay Singh Chauhan 2000 Joginder Singh Bedi (PH)
Anju Bobby George, Saraswati
1973 Sriram Singh 2002
Saha
T. C. Yohannan, Shivnath
1974 2003 Soma Biswas, Madhuri Saxena
Singh
Anil Kumar, J. J. Shobha,
1975 Hari Chand, V. Anusuya Bai 2004 Devendra Jhajharia (Physically
Challenged)
1978- Suresh Babu, Angel Mary
2006 K. M. Binu
79 Joseph
1979-
R.Gnanasekran 2007 Chitra K. Soman
80
1980-
Gopal Saini 2009 Sinimol Paulose
81
Joseph Abraham (Athletics)
1981 Sabir Ali 2010 ,Jagseer Singh (Para Athlete),
Krishna Poonia
Charles Borromeo, Chand
1982 2011 Preeja Sreedharan
Ram, M. D. Valsamma
Sudha Singh ,Kavita Ramdas
Raut, Deepa Mallick (Para
1983 Suresh Yadav, P. T. Usha 2012
Athlete), Ramkaran Singh (Para
Athlete)
1984 Raj Kumar, Shiny Abraham
Raghubir Singh Bal, Asha Renjith Maheshwary ,Amit Kumar
1985 2013
Agarwal, Adille Sumariwala Saroha (Para Athlete)
1985 Adille Sumariwala 2014 Tintu Luka
1986 Suman Rawat 2015 M. R. Poovamma
1987 Balwinder Singh 2016 Lalita Babar