Basketball

Ajmer Singh Chopra (born 1953) is an Indian basketball player who was awarded the country's highest sporting honor, the Arjuna Award, in 1982. He represented the country in the Asian Basketball Championships and in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. According to The Hindu, Singh was "a rough and tough player and his sole aim was to score as many baskets as possible.

Akanksha Singh (born 7 September 1989 in Varanasi Uttar Pradesh) is an Indian basketball player and former captain of the India Women's National Basketball Team. She has played for the national team since 2004. She and her sisters, Divya, Prashanti, and Pratima are known as the "fantastic four" of the Indian women's basketballers, and are also known as the "Singh Sisters".

Akash Lokhande (born c. 1992) is an Indian head coach, businessman, and former basketball player for the Pune Peshwas.

Akilan Pari (born 20 July 1989) is an Indian professional basketball player. He currently plays for the Punjab Steelers of India's UBA Pro Basketball League.

Amaan Sandhu (born 8 December 2002) is an Indian basketball player from Punjab. He plays for the India men's national basketball team as a Centre. He plays for Punjab in the domestic tournaments.

Amarendra Nayak (born 21 March 2003) is an Indian basketball player from Odisha. He plays for the India men's national basketball team and for the Chandigarh and Indian Railways team in the domestic tournaments as a forward. He also plays 3x3 basketball and represented Panjim Thunderbots in the 2024 Goa Basketball League 3x3.

Amarnath Nagarajan (born 2 April 1954) is an Indian basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Ambati Prudhvi Reddy (born 23 January 1996) is an Indian basketball player from the state of Telangana. Standing at six feet and two inches, he plays the point guard position. Reddy has received professional training and played at the Europe Basketball Academy.

Amritpal Singh (born January 5, 1991) is an Indian professional basketball player who represents Punjab in the National Basketball Championship. League, ONGC FC, and Pune Peshwas of India, as well as the Sydney Kings of the Australian National Basketball League. Singh, along with Amjyot Singh, became the first ever Indian basketball players to sign a professional contract abroad.

Amjyot Singh Gill (born January 27, 1992) is a former Indian professional basketball player. League and the Delhi Capitals of the UBA Pro Basketball League. He and Amritpal Singh became the first Indian male to sign a professional basketball contract abroad.

Aneesha Cleetus (born 11 October 1999) is an Indian basketball player from Kerala. She plays for the India women's national basketball team as a center. She plays for Kerala and Kerala State Electricity Board teams in the domestic tournaments.

Anitha Pauldurai (born 22 June 1985) is an Indian basketball player from Tamil Nadu. She was the captain of the India women's national basketball team for eight years after making her senior India debut in 2000. She has been conferred with National Civilian Award Padma Shri in 2021.

Anmolpreet Kaur Pannu (24 November 1999) is an Indian basketball player from Punjab. She plays for the India women's national basketball team as a guard. She plays for Punjab team in the domestic tournaments.

Anoop Mukkanniyil (born May 30, 1986) is an Indian professional basketball player who last played for ONGC Uttarakhand Dehradoon of the India D-3 basketball league. Standing at 6'6, Mukkanniyil played the power forward and center position.

Appoorva Muralinath (born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu) is an Indian basketball player and coach. Her career as a player was from 2005 to 2017, and she played on the India women's national basketball team from 2010 to 2015. She is a power forward/center.

Arvind Muthu Krishnan (born 16 March 2000) is an Indian basketball player from Tamil Nadu. He plays for the India men's national basketball team as a point guard. He plays for Tamil Nadu in the domestic tournaments.

Arvinder Singh Kahlon (born 2 December 2002) is an Indian basketball player from Punjab. He plays for the India men's national basketball team as a power forward. He plays for Railways in the domestic tournaments.

Baldev Singh (born 3 January 1951) is an Indian basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Barkha Sonkar (24 December 1996) is an Indian women's basketball player.

Dharshini Thirunavukkarasu (born 27 March 2000) is an Indian basketball player from Tamil Nadu. She plays for the India women's national basketball team as a guard. She plays for Indian Railways team in the domestic tournaments and for Tamil Nadu in the National Games.

Dilip Gurumurthy (born 18 September 1956) is an Indian basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Divya Singh (Hindi:'दिव्या सिंह') (born 21 July 1982) is former captain of the Indian National Women's Basketball Team. Singh led the Indian women's basketball team at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. She is known for her game skills, leadership qualities, academic strength and personality.

Divyani Gangwal (born 2 June 2000) is an Indian basketball player from Madhya Pradesh. She plays for the India women's national basketball team as a shooting guard. She played for Madhya Pradesh in the domestic tournaments and from 2023, she is representing Chhattisgarh state.

Durga Dharmadhikari (born 24 July 2000) is an Indian basketball player from Maharashtra. She plays as a shooting guard for the Bristol Academy Flyers in United Kingdom.

Eban Hyams (Hebrew: אבן היימס) is an Indian-Israeli-Australian former professional basketball player. Hyams has played professionally in the Australian National Basketball League (NBL) and that country's Waratah League, part of the second division Australian Basketball Association (ABA). He is the first ever player of Indian origin to play in ULEB competitions.

Geethu Anna Jose (born 30 June 1985 in Kollad, Kottayam, Kerala, India) is an Indian basketball player who has been the captain of the India women's national basketball team.

Gulam Abbas Moontasir (7 January 1942 – 15 November 2022) was an Indian professional basketball player.

Gurvinder Singh Gill (also known as "Garry Gill") (born January 21, 1996) is an Indian professional basketball player. He currently plays for the Punjab Steelers of India's UBA Pro Basketball League. He was a member of India's national basketball team at the 2015 FIBA Asia Championship in Changsha, Hunan, China.

Hanuman Singh Rathore is a noted former basketball player from India. He played for India in Asian Games, Commonwealth Games and at 1980 Olympics. He was awarded Arjuna Award in 1975.

Harbhajan Singh (born 12 April 1950) is an Indian basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Harima Sundhari Munishkannan (born 25 October 2005) is an Indian basketball player from Tamil Nadu. She plays for the India women's national basketball team as a shooting guard. She plays for Tamil Nadu in the domestic tournaments.

Harsh Dagar (born 23 February 2005) is an Indian basketball player from Uttar Pradesh. He plays for the India men's national basketball team as a shooting guard. He plays for Uttar Pradesh in the domestic tournaments.

Kelettira Harshitha Bojamma Bopaiah (born 31 July 2000) is an Indian basketball player from Karnataka. She plays for the India women's national basketball team as a power forward. She plays for Railways in the domestic tournaments and for Karnataka in the National Games.

Jagdeep Singh Bains (Hindi: जगदीप सिंह; born 10 January 1986) is an Indian professional basketball player. Before playing for Mumbai Challengers of the UBA Pro Basketball League, he spent his first seven seasons with Punjab Police Jalandhar in the Indian National Basketball Championship. Singh was dismissed from Punjab in 2012 and suffered a career-threatening injury.

Jennifer Paes (née Dutton; 19 January 1951 – 17 May 2026) was an Indian basketball player who captained the Indian national basketball team in 1982. She accompanied her husband, field hockey player Vece Paes, to the Olympics.

Jorawar Singh (born 7 July 1951) is an Indian former basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Kanwar Sandhu (born 30 October 1999) is an Indian basketball player from Punjab. He plays for the India men's national basketball team as a shooting guard. He plays for Punjab Warriors and Punjab in the domestic tournaments.

Khushi Ram (born 7 August 1936 – 29 December 2013), widely acknowledged as The Scoring Machine of Asia, was a basketball player from India who represented India at many international competitions. He was awarded the country's highest sporting honour the Arjuna award in 1967. He captained the Indian National Basketball Team in the year 1965 which made its first appearance in Asian Basketball Championship.

Krithika Sureshbabu (born 12 November 2002) is an Indian basketball player from Tamil Nadu. She plays for the India women's national basketball team as a center. She plays for Tamil Nadu in the domestic tournaments.

Malathi Basappa (born 1950) is an Indian beauty pageant titleholder who represented India at Miss World 1972, where she finished as fourth runner-up, after being crowned Bharat Sundari.

Manisha Kaprekar Dange (born 8 December 1979) is a former Indian basketball player and coach from Maharashtra. She played for the India women's national basketball team and the Central Railway and Indian Railways teams in the domestic tournaments as a shooting guard.

Manmeet Kaur (born 11 November 2005) is an Indian basketball player from Punjab. She plays for the India women's national basketball team as a center. She plays for Punjab in the domestic tournaments.

Meenalatha Mohan (born 23 March 1978) is a former Indian basketball player and coach from Tamil Nadu. She played for the India women's national basketball team and the Indian Railways teams in the domestic tournaments. She also coached the Indian women's 5x5 team for the Asian Games 2022 at Hangzhou.

Muin Bek Hafeez (born 16 March 1996) is an Indian professional basketball player, most recently for Indian Bank Chennai BC.

Narender Kumar Grewal (born 25 June 1988) is an Indian basketball player from Bhiwani, Haryana. He plays as a position guard.

Palanilkumkalayil Skaria Jeena, known as P. S. Jeena (born 9 January 1994), is an Indian professional basketball player and practicing Christian who captains the India women's national basketball team.

Palpreet Singh Brar (born 3 January 1994) is an Indian basketball player from Punjab. He plays for the India men's national basketball team as a 'Centre' and captained the Indian senior men's team. He plays for Railways in the domestic tournaments.

Residential academies providing free boarding, lodging, and professional coaching to selected youngsters.

A two-year postgraduate program affiliated with a university to provide advanced research and technical expertise in coaching.

On 8 September 2026 the Maharashtra Cabinet approved a revised policy for the 5 per cent parallel reservation for meritorious sportspersons in direct recruitment in state government and semi-government bodies. Sports included in at least three consecutive Summer Olympic Games after 2005 qualify, and Kabaddi, Kho-Kho, Chess, Mallakhamb and Cricket have been added as regional sports. Under the revised policy, sports certificates must be verified through a digital Sports E-Certificate system within three months, and earlier government resolutions on the quota were rescinded.

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC), a Government of India enterprise, gives monthly scholarships to economically weaker young sportspersons who have the potential to excel in sport, in games including badminton, boxing, wrestling, kabaddi, chess, athletics and para sports. This is a public-sector company scheme, not a government department scheme. A scholarship is awarded for one year and can be extended up to two years based on annual performance. The number of scholarships is fixed game by game; for the 2025-26 round, for example, badminton had 6 (3 for men and 3 for women) and kabaddi had 20.

A flagship annual multi-disciplinary grassroots event held to identify and nurture young sporting talent at the school and college level across India.

Under instructions of the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), central government ministries and departments can directly recruit meritorious sportspersons to Group C posts (including erstwhile Group D) that are filled by direct recruitment, in relaxation of the normal recruitment procedure. The list of qualifying sports has 65 disciplines (63 listed in 2020, with Tennis Ball Cricket added in January 2021 and Yogasana in June 2022). Kudo, Karate, Taekwondo, Golf, Judo, Boxing, Wrestling, Badminton, Cricket and Tennis are among them. Railways and a few scientific and atomic-energy services follow separate rules.

Allows the general public and budding athletes to use SAI's world-class stadium facilities in Delhi and other regional centers for a nominal fee.

State scheme under which the Haryana Sports Department provides sports equipment to Gram Panchayats and municipal bodies, to encourage young people to take up sports such as volleyball, football, basketball, handball, boxing, wrestling, judo and cricket. The department's website lists editions for 2023-24 and 2025-26.