who won the dronacharya award in 2007 for archery
Sanjeeva Kumar Singh In 1992, Sanjeeva received the Arjuna Award[2] by the Government India for his contribution to Indian Archery. He has also received Dronacharya Award[3][4] in 2007.
Jnanpith Award As of 2015[update], the cash prize has been revised to ₹11 lakh (equivalent to ₹12 lakh or US$18,000 in 2016) and out of twenty-three eligible languages the award has been presented for works in fifteen languages: Hindi (ten), Kannada (eight), Bengali (six), Malayalam (five), Gujarati, Marathi, Odia, and Urdu (four each), Telugu (three), Assamese, Punjabi, and Tamil (two each), Kashmiri, Konkani, and Sanskrit (one each). The award has been conferred upon fifty-seven writers including seven women authors. In 1976, Bengali novelist Ashapoorna Devi became the first woman to win the award and was honoured for the 1965 novel Pratham Pratisruti (The First Promise), the first in a trilogy.[b][8] The most recent recipient of the award is Bengali poet and critic Shankha Ghosh who was awarded for the year 2016.