Mukhya Mantri Pratibhashali Puraskar Scheme

What is the Mukhya Mantri Pratibhashali Puraskar Scheme?

Mukhya Mantri Pratibhashali Puraskar Scheme is a state award scheme of the Department of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of Tripura, which recognises talented sportspersons of the state. The name is a transliteration: pratibhashali means talented, and puraskar means award or prize.

The scheme appears on the Tripura State DBT Portal at dbttripura.gov.in as one of 4 schemes of the Department of Youth Affairs and Sports, alongside Mukhya Mantri Sports Development Scheme, Mukhya Mantri State Talent Search Programme and the Sports Talent Scholarship. Its presence on the DBT Portal tells you one concrete thing: where the award carries money, that money is paid by Direct Benefit Transfer into an Aadhaar-seeded bank account rather than handed over as cash or cheque.

The scheme fits inside Tripura's sports policy, whose declared theme is "Sports for all", and inside a departmental set that covers the full arc of an athlete's support: facilities under the Sports Development Scheme, identification and training funding under the State Talent Search Programme, study support under the Sports Talent Scholarship, and recognition of achievement under this award.

An honest statement about what is not published

This is a short guide because Tripura has published very little about this scheme, and padding it out would mean inventing.

We checked the scheme's own page on the Tripura State DBT Portal, the department's website at yas.tripura.gov.in, and the state portal at tripura.gov.in. The DBT Portal's page for this scheme carries only the scheme name and a financial-year dashboard, no description, no objective, no eligibility criteria, no document list and no application procedure. The department's website describes the sports policy in general terms but does not carry a scheme guideline for this award.

So the following are not stated in this guide, because no official Tripura source confirms them: the award amount, the number of awards given each year, the level of sporting achievement required, any age band, and the award cycle dates. If you find those figures on a third-party aggregator, treat them with suspicion until the department confirms them.

What we can say with confidence is the scheme's owner, its category, its delivery mechanism and where to ask. That is set out below.

Who is eligible for the Mukhya Mantri Pratibhashali Puraskar?

Who the award is for:

• Sportspersons of Tripura who have achieved notable results in their discipline. Recognition schemes of this kind key off competition performance.
• Athletes whose achievements are on record with a recognised state sports association or federation, since that is how a state department verifies a result.

Who cannot apply:

• There is no open public application, so no individual can apply in the way one applies for a scholarship or pension. Awards of this kind are conferred on selection.
• Non-residents of Tripura are outside a state award scheme.
• Athletes with no verifiable competition record cannot be considered, since the award rests on documented achievement.
• Anyone hoping for a general sports allowance should look elsewhere in the department's set. Mukhya Mantri State Talent Search Programme funds training for female athletes, and the Sports Talent Scholarship supports student athletes.

What documents matter?

How to apply for the Mukhya Mantri Pratibhashali Puraskar

1. Get your results on record with the recognised state association for your discipline. An achievement that exists only in a newspaper clipping is hard for a department to act on; an association-certified result is not.
2. Keep certified copies of every competition certificate, with the level, date, event and position clearly shown. Assemble them in date order.
3. Ask your state association to recommend your name to the Department of Youth Affairs and Sports when an award cycle opens. Association recommendation is the standard route for state sports awards.
4. Write to the Department of Youth Affairs and Sports directly on +91 381 230 0082 or through yas.tripura.gov.in to ask when the current award cycle runs and what the department requires. Ask specifically for the scheme guideline or the memorandum that governs the award.
5. Keep a bank account open and Aadhaar-seeded. If the award carries money, it will be released through DBT, and an unseeded account will hold up the payment after the award is announced.

Where to check the scheme's status

• Tripura State DBT Portal, dbttripura.gov.in — the scheme page shows the total transfer, beneficiary count and transaction count for the financial year. All three read zero for 2026-2027 as of this check.
• Department notifications and memorandums at yas.tripura.gov.in; where award announcements and cycle notices appear.

Help and contact

• Department of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of Tripura: yas.tripura.gov.in
• Phone: +91 381 230 0082
• Tripura State DBT Portal: dbttripura.gov.in

A state sports award is conferred on merit. No fee is payable and no agent can place a name on an award list.