<div>Sports Minister Col. Rajyavardhan Rathore has approved the revised guidelines for Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy to rationalize and simplify the selection of top performing university in sports. </div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>An official release said, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and Sports Authority of India will invite and Scrutinized the applications of the universities. Earlier the applications were invited and scrutinized by the Association of Indian Universities.</div>''<div></div>''<div>The criteria for calculation of marks for selection of universities for the trophy has been revised in which the performances of the students in Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, World Cup, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, World University Games, Khelo India University Games and Intra Zonal University Games has been included. </div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>Tournaments which are held more than once a year will not be considered for computation of marks. The amount of award money for the overall all winner university has been enhanced from 10 lakh to 15 lakh rupees and for 1st Runner-up the amount has been enhanced from five lakh to 7.5 lakh rupees, while 2nd Runner-up universities will get 4.5 lakh rupees from three lakh rupees.  </div>''<div><br />''</div>