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New Delhi: The 2020 National Sports Awards will be held by means of video conferencing due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Sports Ministry stated on Thursday.
The event is arranged to be hung on Saturday (August 29), and the Ministry said that 65 out of the 74 recipients will exist.
Of the nine award winners who will not attend the virtual ceremony, 3 have checked positive for Covid-19
The awards are usually provided by the President at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
This time, however, President Ram Nath Kovind will be connected through a National Informatics Centre (NIC) link from Rashtrapati Bhavan while the recipients will be present at Sports Authority of India (SAI) and NIC centres in various places throughout the nation, the Sports Ministry said in a declaration.
Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju would be present at the Vigyan Bhawan in the nationwide capital for the award event.
” Awardees who are not having the ability to attend the function from one of the different centres or are not in India on August 29, will be provided the award later,” stated the Ministry.
The programme will be telecast live on Doordarshan.
( IANS)
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