Question
Download Solution PDFWhich famous sportsperson has received the Bharat Ratna award in 2014?
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Sachin Tendulkar.
Key Points
- In 2014, Sachin Tendulkar became the first and the only sportsperson to be conferred with the Bharat Ratna.
- Sachin Tendulkar debuted in 1989.
- He played 664 international cricket matches in a career spanning over two decades.
- He holds various cricket records including the only player to have scored one hundred international centuries, the first batsman to score a double century in a One Day International, and the only player to complete more than 34,000 runs in both ODI and Test cricket.
- Calls have been made over the years to award Major Dhyan Chand with Bharat Ratna, the country’s highest civilian award. But never happened.
Additional Information
- The Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award of the Republic of India.
- The Bharat Ratna was introduced on 2 January 1954.
- It is awarded in recognition of exceptional service/performance of the highest order in any field of human endeavor.
- The number of annual awards is restricted to a maximum of three in a particular year.
- On conferment of the award, the recipient receives a Sanad (certificate) signed by the President and a medallion.
- The first recipients of the Bharat Ratna who were honored in 1954 are as follows:
- C. Rajagopalachari - The last Governor-General of the Dominion of India
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan - Second President and the First Vice President of India
- C. V. Raman - Nobel Prize Laureate, Physicist
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