MPPSC 2018 General Studies Solved Paper-1

(D) Pullela Gopichand is the player who was given the Arjuna Award, Dronacharya Award, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award and Padma Shri.He won the All England Open Badminton Championships in 2001, becoming the second Indian to achieve this feat after Prakash Padukone. He runs the Gopichand Badminton Academy. He received the Arjuna Award in 1999, the Dronacharya Award in 2009,Padma Shri in 2005 and the Padma Bhushan – India’s third highest civilian award – in 2014.