Who was given the Lifetime Dronacharya Award for Hockey for the year 2020?
- (a)Sarpal Singh
- (b)Jude Felix Sebastian
- (c)Romesh Pathania
- (d)Marzban Patel
Correct — C, Romesh Pathania. He received the Dronacharya Award in the Lifetime Achievement category for hockey at the 2020 National Sports Awards (ceremony held 29 August 2020), recognised for nurturing Indian hockey talent over roughly three decades of coaching.
- (a)Sarpal Singh — A hockey coach who also received the Lifetime Dronacharya Award — but a year later, in 2021, not 2020.
- (b)Jude Felix Sebastian — A former hockey captain-coach honoured with the (regular-category, not Lifetime) Dronacharya Award in 2020 — a different award category from the one this question asks about.
- (d)Marzban Patel — Mumbai's noted youth hockey coach ('Bawa'), who received the Lifetime Dronacharya Award for hockey — but in 2019, not 2020.
The Dronacharya Award honours coaches; since being expanded, it has a separate 'Lifetime Achievement' category for coaches with a decades-long contribution, alongside a regular category recognising recent results. For 2020, hockey had honourees in both categories: Jude Felix Sebastian (regular) and Romesh Pathania (Lifetime).
MPPSC likes naming several real hockey-coaching Dronacharya awardees from adjoining years and categories as distractors — the trap is matching 'hockey + Dronacharya' loosely instead of matching the precise year (2020) and category (Lifetime) together.
- Romesh Pathania — Lifetime Dronacharya Award for hockey, 2020.
- Jude Felix Sebastian — (regular-category) Dronacharya Award for hockey, 2020.
- Marzban Patel — Lifetime Dronacharya Award for hockey, 2019.
- Sarpal Singh — Lifetime Dronacharya Award for hockey, 2021.
- Picking any hockey-coach Dronacharya awardee without checking both the year (2020) and the category (Lifetime)
- Confusing the Lifetime category with the regular Dronacharya Award given in the same year to a different coach
MPPSC pairs 'sport + award category + year' precisely, using real awardees from adjacent years as decoys — anchor on year and category together, not just the sport.
Consider the following pairs with regard to sports awards : 1. Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award : For the most spectacular and outstanding performance by a sportsperson over period of last four years 2. Arjuna Award : For the lifetime achievement by a sportsperson 3. Dronacharya Award : To honour eminent coaches who have successfully trained sportspersons or teams 4. Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar : To recognize the contribution made by sportspersons even after their retirement How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?
- (a) Only one
- (b) Only two
- (c) Only three
- (d) All four
Answer(b) Only two
Same underlying concept — the exact purpose of India's national sports awards, including the Dronacharya Award named in this question — tested via a correct-pairing format.
MPPSC_2018_PRE_PaperI_Q502018Who was the first recipient of the Dronacharya Award in 1985?
- (a) O. M. Nambiar
- (b) Om Prakash Bhardwaj
- (c) B. B. Bhagwat
- (d) All of them
Answer(d) All of them
Same underlying concept — identifying specific Dronacharya Award recipients by year — asked here for the award's inaugural year (1985) instead of 2020.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Who received the (regular-category) Dronacharya Award for hockey coaching in 2020?
- (a)Romesh Pathania
- (b)Jude Felix Sebastian
- (c)Marzban Patel
- (d)Sarpal Singh
Answer(b) Jude Felix Sebastian.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Lifetime Dronacharya Award for hockey in 2021 was conferred on:
- (a)Romesh Pathania
- (b)Marzban Patel
- (c)Sarpal Singh
- (d)Jude Felix Sebastian
Answer(c) Sarpal Singh.