The Sanjay Chopra award is a civilian award, given to the brave children in India for showing heroic acts. The award is given under the National Bravery Awards, which was incepted in the year 1957, by the first Prime Minister of India, Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru. The Sanjay Chopra Award was introduced in the year 1978, in memory of one of the two Chopra children, who laid their lives, while confronting their kidnappers. Their name was Sanjay and Geeta and the Sanjay Chopra Award is given to the boys under the age of 16 years, only. Since its inception in 1978, a large number of brave boys have received the award. The award is posthumously given to the winners, as well. The Sanjay Chopra awardees receive the award from the Prime Minister of India.






A partial list of the Sanjay Chopra Awardees is given below:

	Name	Notes	Age	Indian state of origin
2000	Prince Kumar and Ashish Kumar	Confronted armed robbers	_ years
2001	Nikhil Singh (posthumously)	Lost his life while saving three other friends from drowning.	_ years	West Bengal
2002	Chandan Paswan	Saved two children from drowning.	14 years	Uttar Pradesh
2003	Riyaz Ahmed	Lost his hands and a foot in an effort to save a child from a train accident.	9 years	Uttar Pradesh
2004	Harry Chaudhry	Received several stab wounds on his stomach, while trying to save his sister from assailants knife.	13 years	Delhi
2005	Sanmesh Mahesh Kalyanpur	For saving his sister from drowning.	14 years	Maharashtra
2006	V Teeja Sai (posthumously)	Lost his life while trying to rescue some fellow students in river Munneru in Vijayawada district	_ years	Andhra Pradesh
2006	C V S Durga Dondieswar (posthumously)	Lost his life while trying to rescue some fellow students in river Munneru in Vijayawada district	_years	Andhra Pradesh
2007	Yuktarth Shrivastava	For saving his 11-month old sister from stray dogs, who attacked them	6 years	Chhattisgarh
2008	Saumik Mishra	For single-handedly fighting with two goons who entered his home for theft	15 years	Uttar Pradesh