Thanks to Ministry of Home Affairs and their recommendation of broadening the base for deciding the eligible to give Bharata Ratna. Accordingly Prime Minister’s Office has accepted to change the rules by broadening the excellence in all fields of human Endeavour as the new eligibility norm for Nation’s Highest Civilian award.
With in minutes after this, Home Ministry spoke to Prime Minister’s Office recommending that sports should be made a category for conferring the Bharata Ratna. With in seconds from then on, two names of Sachin Tendulkar and Dhyan Chand have come as the unanimous choice. Earlier to this, Award was restricted only to the fields such as Art, Literature, Science and Public Service. The demand of Bharata Ratna for Sachin is becoming louder as sources say that it could be just a matter of time before he gets the award. In fact name of Sachin has been doing the rounds from the times of before the world cup 2011. On the other side, some feel legendary Dhyan Chand is also demanded for the same.