Sports ministry announces names of national sports awardees

Dhaka, Dec 6 (bdpremnews.tk) – Giving priority to publicity-shy veteran athletes and organisers, the Youth and Sports Ministry Thursday declared 10 persons for the National Sports Award for the year 2007. Your Ad Here Youth and Sports Adviser Tapan Chowdhury announced the names of the athletes and organisers at his ministry's conference room Thursday breaking the previous tradition of declaring the names through a press release. "We tried to honour those athletes and organisers who are veteran athletes and also publicity- shy persons," said the adviser adding that many deserving persons for the award were ignored in the past. "There are many athletes and organisers who are averse to publicity but who had a lot contributions to sports, and we should look for them for the awards in the future," said Chowdhury. He said they would be able to form a national guideline for the national sports award and they would try to approve the guideline in the council of advisers through the law ministry. The selected awardees are Sharmila Roy (athletics), Ranjit Das (football), Amir Hossain Patowari (kabaddi), Lt Commander (retd) M Arshad (swimming), M Aminul Islam (judo), M Nurul Islam (hockey), Engineer Sheikh Abul Hashem (badminton), Prof Dr Rashid Uddin Ahmed (basketball), ograniser Ataul Haq Mallik (posthumous) and Kazi Anisur Rahman (organiser).