{"id":93528,"date":"2020-03-18T14:18:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T14:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=93528"},"modified":"2020-03-18T14:18:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T14:18:38","slug":"joginder-singh-saini-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/joginder-singh-saini-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Joginder Singh Saini passed away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: On March 1, 2019, veteran athletics coach Joginder Singh Saini passed away. In which year he was felicitated the Dronacharya Award?<\/strong><br> (a) 1995<br> (b) 1996<br> (c) 1997<br> (d) 2002<br><strong> Answer:  (c)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Veteran athletics coach and Dronacharya Award winner Joginder Singh Saini passed away on 1 March, 2020. He was 90 years old.<\/li><li>He became an athletics coach in 1954 after pursuing a diploma in physical education and a coaching course from NIS Patiala.<\/li><li>He groomed some of India&#8217;s finest track and field stars including Bogeshwar Barua, Edward Sequiera, Charles Borromeo, Chand Ram, Shiny Wlson, Kamaljeet Sandhu and many more.<\/li><li>He became the head coach of the then Indian Amateur Athletics Federation in the year 1970.<\/li><li>He was awarded the Dronacharya Award in the year 1997 for his contribution to Indian athletics.<\/li><li>He was the head coach of the Indian team that won 18 medals, including 8 gold medals at the 1978 Asian Games.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><br><a href=\"http:\/\/newsonair.com\/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=382183\">http:\/\/newsonair.com\/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=382183<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/more-sports\/athletics\/indias-celebrated-athletics-coach-joginder-singh-saini-passes-away\/articleshow\/74432392.cms\">https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/more-sports\/athletics\/indias-celebrated-athletics-coach-joginder-singh-saini-passes-away\/articleshow\/74432392.cms<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aninews.in\/news\/national\/general-news\/afi-condoles-death-of-former-chief-coach-joginder-singh-saini20200301174940\/\">https:\/\/www.aninews.in\/news\/national\/general-news\/afi-condoles-death-of-former-chief-coach-joginder-singh-saini20200301174940\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/news-ani\/afi-condoles-death-of-former-chief-coach-joginder-singh-saini-120030100561_1.html\">https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/news-ani\/afi-condoles-death-of-former-chief-coach-joginder-singh-saini-120030100561_1.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: On March 1, 2019, veteran athletics coach Joginder Singh Saini passed away. In which year he was felicitated the Dronacharya Award? (a) 1995 (b) 1996 (c) 1997 (d) 2002 Answer: (c) Related facts: Veteran athletics coach and Dronacharya Award winner Joginder Singh Saini passed away on 1 March, 2020. He was 90 years old. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":93529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[2348],"class_list":["post-93528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pers","tag-personalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}