As per the DoPT Instructions dated 4th March 2024, total 65 Sports in the updated List of Sports which Qualify for Appointment of Meritorious Sportspersons is given below
Table of Contents
List of Sports which Qualify for Appointment of Meritorious Sportspersons
| 1 | Archery |
| 2 | Athletics |
| 3 | Atya- Patya |
| 4 | Badminton |
| 5 | Ball-Badminton |
| 6 | Baseball |
| 7 | Basket Ball |
| 8 | Billiards & Snookers |
| 9 | Body-Building |
| 10 | Boxing |
| 11 | Bridge |
| 12 | Carrom |
| 13 | Chess |
| 14 | Cricket |
| I5 | Cycling |
| 16 | Cycling Polo |
| 17 | Deaf Sports |
| 18 | Equestrian |
| 19 | Fencing |
| 20 | Football |
| 21 | Golf |
| 22 | Gymnastics |
| 23 | Handball |
| 24 | Hockey |
| 25 | Ice-Hockey |
| 26 | Ice-Skating |
| 27 | Ice-Skiing |
| 28 | Judo |
| 29 | Kabaddi |
| 30 | Karate |
| 31 | Kayaking & Canoeing |
| 32 | Kho – Kho |
| 33 | Kudo |
| 34 | Mallakhamb |
| 35 | Motor Sports |
| 36 | Net Ball |
| 37 | Para Sports (for sports discipline included in para Olympics and Para Asian Games) |
| 38 | Pencak Silat |
| 39 | Polo |
| 40 | Powerlifting |
| 41 | Shooting |
| 42 | Shooting Ball |
| 43 | Roll Ball |
| 44 | Roller Skating |
| 45 | Rowing |
| 46 | Rugby |
| 47 | Sepak Takraw |
| 48 | Soft Ball |
| 49 | Soft Tennis |
| 50 | Squash |
| 51 | Swimming |
| 52 | Table Tennis |
| 53 | Taekwondo |
| 54 | Tenni-Koit |
| 55 | Tennis |
| 56 | Tenpin Bowling |
| 57 | Triathlon |
| 58 | Tug-of-war |
| 59 | Volleyball |
| 60 | Weightlifting |
| 61 | Wushu |
| 62 | Wrestling |
| 63 | Yachting |
| 64 | Tennis Ball Cricket |
| 65 | Yogasana |
DoPT vide its OM F.No. 14034/1/2013-Estt.(D) dated 01.09.2020 has issued list of 63 Sports which Qualify for Appointment of Meritorious Sportspersons. Later additional two sports were added in the list vide OM dated 29.01.2021 and 17.06.2022
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