new delhi three days after approving his name for dronacharya award the sports ministry has ordered withdrawal of heera nand katarias recommendation for the honour as a controversy erupted over his candidatureit has been reported that kataria nominated by the selection panel for his contribution in kabaddi is a joint secretary of the wushu association of india and the kabaddi players and coaches have expressed surprise over his selectionthe kabaddi players have also reportedly claimed that they have no idea who kataraia wasearlier in the day sports minister vijay goel had said that he would go by committees recommendation but he can take action if contrary facts emergeit has been learnt that the minister swung into action and eventually found that kataria was not a deserving candidatethe minister spoke to a few people and asked for details he wanted to go by the committee but when reports cast a doubt over katarias candidature he asked officials to dig out facts eventually he found that he should not be given the award thus he has ordered withdrawal of his name a sports ministry official privy to the developments told ptiit is not first time that a persons name has been dropped after notification of the list for the national sports award triple jumper renjith maheshwaris name was also struck off at the last minute in 2013 from the arjuna award list when it emerged that he had used a scheduled substance ephedrine back in 2008this years awards announcement has already created a lot of controversy as weightlifter sanjita chanu and basketball player p anitha have already approached judiciary after being overlooked for arjuna this yearthe delhi high court will hear anithas petition on monday it has been learntthe ministry also chose to drop name of para coach satyanarayna from the list of dronacharya recommendations by its selection panel as he is facing a criminal defamation case in a lower delhi courttalking about chanu goel said one or other misses out alwayspeople will always complain when they miss the recognition we will definitely consider her next yearall 17 arjuna awardees and two khel ratnas chosen for year 2017 will be conferred the honour on august 29 observed as national sports day at the rashtrapati bhawan