{"id":9756,"date":"2019-02-28T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=9756"},"modified":"2019-02-28T20:51:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T20:51:46","slug":"28-b-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=9756","title":{"rendered":"G V Raja Awards for 2017 for Jinson Johnson and Neena V"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> The Olympian Suresh Babu Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to badminton coach S Muraleedharan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thiruvananthapuram : <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The State\u2019s highest sporting honour G V Raja Award for 2017 was awarded to the athletes Jinson Johnson and Neena V by the Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan at a function organized at Jimmy George Indoor Stadium, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Olympian Suresh Babu Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to badminton coach S Muraleedharan. Sports Minister E P Jayarajan said to nurture the sporting talents in the state the government is spearheading various efforts including construction of stadiums with synthetic tracks apart from indoor stadiums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c164 sportspersons, who have won national and international medals, were awarded government jobs while 248 others will also be appointed soon,\u201d said Jayarajan at the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Other winners<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Volleyball player Jinsy Johnson (college-level)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Athlete Ms Abigeyil Arogyanathan (school-level) for the best sportspersons in the academies under the State Sports Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sports Council volleyball coach S Manoj won the best coach award. Mathews Jacob, Mar Athanasius College, Kothamangalam won the best college sports teacher award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Assumption College, Changanassery, was awarded the best college for remarkable sports achievements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Awards were also distributed to the winners of the 2016-17 national and international competitions, including Asian Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kerala volleyball team that had won the 66th national volleyball championship and participants of the Special Olympics 2015 held in Los Angeles were also awarded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">source: http:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com \/ The New Indian Express \/ Home> States> Kerala \/ by Express News Service \/ February 28th, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympian Suresh Babu Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to badminton coach S Muraleedharan. Thiruvananthapuram : The State\u2019s highest sporting honour G V Raja Award for 2017 was awarded to the athletes Jinson Johnson and Neena V by the Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan at a function organized at Jimmy George Indoor Stadium, on Wednesday. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=9756\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">G V Raja Awards for 2017 for Jinson Johnson and Neena V<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-records-all","category-sports"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9756"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9769,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756\/revisions\/9769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}