SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 18 September 2025, Shift 1 · General Awareness · Question 5 of 100

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Which of the following statements regarding the Dronacharya Award is/are correct? 1) It carries a cash prize of ₹10 lakhs and features a gold statue of Guru Dronacharya. 2) O.M. Nambiar was honored with the first Dronacharya Award in 1985 for outstanding coaching.

(a)Only 1 is Correct
(b)Only 2 is Correct
(c)1 and 2 are correct
(d)Neither 1 nor 2 are Correct

Answer

Why

Correct — B. Statement 1 fails on the statue. The Dronacharya Award carries a bronze statuette of Dronacharya, with a certificate, ceremonial dress and cash, not a gold statue.

Statement 2 holds: O. M. Nambiar (athletics) was among the first recipients in 1985, the year the award was instituted.

Only 2 is correct → option (b).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Only 1 is Correct — Statement 1 is false because the statuette is bronze, not gold. Its ₹10 lakh figure cannot rescue it.
(c)
1 and 2 are correct — Both cannot be correct: the gold statue in statement 1 is wrong, even though statement 2 is right.
(d)
Neither 1 nor 2 are Correct — Statement 2 is true. O. M. Nambiar was one of the three coaches honoured in 1985, the award's first year.

Concept

The Dronacharya Award, instituted in 1985, is the national award for sports coaches, given by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. It has a Regular and a Lifetime category.

The 1985 recipients were O. M. Nambiar (athletics), Bhalchandra Bhaskar Bhagwat (wrestling) and Om Prakash Bhardwaj (boxing).

In 2020 the cash prize rose from ₹5 lakh to ₹10 lakh (Regular) and ₹15 lakh (Lifetime).

Read statement 2's 'the first Dronacharya Award' as the first year's award: Nambiar shared 1985 with Bhagwat and Bhardwaj, and the key treats the statement as true.

The ₹10 lakh in statement 1 matches the Regular category after 2020, so the statue is what makes it wrong.

Key facts

The Dronacharya Award was instituted in 1985.
Its first recipients were O. M. Nambiar, Bhalchandra Bhaskar Bhagwat and Om Prakash Bhardwaj.
The award comprises a bronze statuette of Dronacharya, a certificate, ceremonial dress and cash.
Since 2020 the cash prize is ₹10 lakh (Regular) and ₹15 lakh (Lifetime).

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Common traps

Accepting statement 1 because ₹10 lakh is right, without checking the statue's metal.
Rejecting statement 2 because Nambiar shared the first year with two other coaches.

Here the award is tested through its prize and its first recipients. The Khel Ratna's renaming is asked at 17 Sep 2024, 16:00, GA Q.25, and sportsmen are matched to awards at 19 Sep 2024, 16:00, GA Q.11.

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