Saturday, January 26, 2013

Major Abup J Manjali Selected For Second- Highest Peacetime Gallantry Award Kirti Chakra

Major Abup J Manjali of the Rashtriya Rifles was selected for the award of Kirti Chakra for his extraordinary bravery efforts in counter- terrorist operations in Jammu and Kashmir. Major Manjali will be awarded on 26 January 2013.

Major Manjali is the only soldier to receive this second- highest peacetime gallantry award Kirti Chakra on the Republic Day. Apart from him, eight other jawans as well as officers were selected to be awarded with the Shaurya Chakra.

Major Abup J Manjali belongs to the Bihar Regiment and at present is deputed to Rashtriya Rifles. It is important to note that the Kirti Chakra can be given away to military personnel as well as the civilians. This award is the peacetime gallantry award which is equivalent to Mahavir Chakra.

Shaurya Chakra, on the other hand, is being given away to Major Sandeep Kumar of 13 Sikh Regiment for his bravery act in Northeast area. Apart from him, Navy officer will also receive Shaurya Chakra for saving lives in Mumbai fire incident.
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National Communal Harmony Award 2012

The Foundation for Amity & National Solidarity, Delhi has been selected for the National Communal Harmony Award for the year 2012 by the Jury headed by the Vice-President of India.

Formed in 1984, the Foundation for Amity & National Solidarity (FANS) is a Delhi based Trust which works for spreading amity and communal harmony. It has organized numerous seminars, workshops, symposiums, inter-religious meets, youth camps, sadbhavana sabhas and rallies to promote social amity. The Foundation has instituted 'National Amity Award', which is given every year to an eminent personality. A serial 'Yeh Gulistan Hamara' produced by the Foundation on national integration was telecast on Doordarshan. It has awarded numerous scholarships under its Amity Scholarship Scheme to promote education amongst the economically backward students. It has extensively contributed for promoting solidarity and communal harmony.

The National Communal Harmony Awards were instituted in 1996 by the National Foundation for Communal Harmony (NFCH), an autonomous organization set up by the Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, for promoting communal harmony and national integration. The ward has been instituted with a view to demonstrating due appreciation and recognition of the efforts of individuals and organisations for promotion of communal harmony and national integration in a sustained manner over a sufficiently long period of time. In addition to a citation, the award carries a cash prize of Rupees five lakh for the Organisation.
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PADMA AWARDS 2013

President has approved the conferment of  108 Padma Awards. These comprise 04 Padma Vibhushan, 24 Padma Bhushan and   80 Padma Shri Awards. 24 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 11 persons in the category of Foreigners, NRIs, PIOs and  Posthumous awardees.
Padma Awards, the country’s highest civilian awards, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The Awards are given in various disciplines/ fields of activities, viz- art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc. ‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service; ‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order and ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any field. The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year. The awards are conferred by the President of India at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhawan sometime around March/ April.

                                                                Padma Vibhushan

Sl No.
Name
Discipline
State/ Domicile
1.        
Shri Raghunath Mohapatra
Art
Orissa
2.        
Shri S. Haider Raza
Art
Delhi
3.        
Prof. Yash Pal
Science and Engineering
Uttar Pradesh
4.        
Prof. Roddam Narasimha
Science and Engineering
Karnataka

Padma Bhushan
Sl No.
Name
Discipline
State/ Domicile
  1.  
Dr. Ramanaidu Daggubati
Art
Andhra Pradesh
  1.  
Smt. Sreeramamurthy Janaki
Art
Tamil Nadu
  1.  
Dr. (Smt.) Kanak Rele
Art
Maharashtra
  1.  
Smt. Sharmila Tagore
Art
Delhi
  1.  
Dr. (Smt.) Saroja Vaidyanathan
Art
Delhi
  1.  
Shri Abdul Rashid Khan
Art
West Bengal
  1.  
Late Rajesh Khanna
Art
Maharashtra #
  1.  
Late Jaspal Singh Bhatti
Art
Punjab #
  1.  
Shri Shivajirao Girdhar Patil
Public Affairs
Maharashtra
  1.  
Dr. Apathukatha Sivathanu Pillai
Science and Engineering
Delhi
  1.  
Dr. Vijay Kumar Saraswat
Science and Engineering
Delhi
  1.  
Dr. Ashoke Sen
Science and Engineering
Uttar Pradesh
  1.  
Dr. B.N. Suresh
Science and Engineering
Karnataka
  1.  
Prof. Satya N. Atluri
Science and Engineering
USA *
  1.  
Prof. Jogesh Chandra Pati
Science and Engineering
USA *
  1.  
Shri Ramamurthy Thyagarajan
Trade and Industry
Tamil Nadu
  1.  
Shri Adi Burjor Godrej
Trade and Industry
Maharashtra
  1.  
Dr. Nandkishore Shamrao Laud
Medicine
Maharashtra
  1.  
Shri Mangesh Padgaonkar
Literature & Education
Maharashtra
  1.  
Prof. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Literature & Education
USA*
  1.  
Shri Hemendra Singh Panwar
Civil Service
Madhya Pradesh
  1.  
Dr. Maharaj Kishan Bhan
Civil Service
Delhi
  1.  
Shri Rahul Dravid
Sports
Karnataka
  1.  
Ms. H. Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom
Sports
Manipur

Padma Shri
Sl No.
Name
Discipline
State/ Domicile
  1.  
Shri Gajam Anjaiah
Art
Andhra Pradesh
  1.  
Swami G.C.D. Bharti alias Bharati Bandhu
Art
Chhattisgarh
  1.  
Ms. B. Jayashree
Art
Karnataka
  1.  
Smt. Sridevi Kapoor
Art
Maharashtra
  1.  
Shri Kailash Chandra Meher
Art
Orissa
  1.  
Shri Brahmdeo Ram Pandit
Art
Maharashtra
  1.  
Shri Vishwanath Dinkar Patekar alias Nana Patekar
Art
Maharashtra
  1.  
Shri Rekandar Nageswara Rao alias Surabhi Babji
Art
Andhra Pradesh
  1.  
Shri Lakshmi Narayana Sathiraju
Art
Tamil Nadu
  1.  
Smt. Jaymala Shiledar
Art
Maharashtra
  1.  
Shri Suresh Dattatray Talwalkar
Art
Maharashtra
  1.  
Shri P. Madhavan Nair alias Madhu
Art
Kerala
  1.  
Shri Apurba Kishore Bir
Art
Maharashtra
  1.  
Shri Ghanakanta Bora Borbayan
Art
Assam
  1.  
Smt. Hilda Mit Lepcha
Art
Sikkim
  1.  
Smt. Sudha Malhotra
Art
Maharashtra
  1.  
Shri Ghulam Mohammad Saznawaz
Art
Jammu and Kashmir
  1.  
Shri Ramesh Gopaldas Sippy
Art
Maharashtra
  1.  
Ms. Mahrukh Tarapor
Art
Maharashtra
  1.  
Shri Balwant Thakur
Art
Jammu & Kashmir
  1.  
Shri Puran Das Baul
Art
West Bengal
  1.  
Shri Rajendra Tikku
Art
Jammu & Kashmir
  1.  
Shri Pablo Bartholomew
Art
Delhi
  1.  
Shri S. Shakir Ali
Art
Rajasthan
  1.  
Sh. S.K.M Maeilanandhan
Social Work
Tamil Nadu
  1.  
Ms. Nileema Mishra
Social Work
Maharashtra
  1.  
Ms. Reema Nanavati
Social Work
Gujarat
  1.  
Ms. Jharna Dhara Chowdhury
Social Work
Bangladesh *
  1.  
Late Dr. Ram Krishan
Social Work
Uttar Pradesh #
  1.  
Late Manju Bharat Ram
Social Work
Delhi #
  1.  
Prof. Mustansir Barma
Science and Engineering
Maharashtra
  1.  
Shri Avinash Chander
Science and Engineering
Delhi
  1.  
Prof. Sanjay Govind Dhande
Science and Engineering
Uttar Pradesh
  1.  
Prof. (Dr.) Sankar Kumar Pal
Science and Engineering
West Bengal
  1.  
Prof. Deepak B. Phatak
Science and Engineering
Maharashtra
  1.  
Dr. Mudundi Ramakrishna Raju
Science and Engineering
Andhra Pradesh
  1.  
Prof. Ajay K. Sood
Science and Engineering
Karnataka
  1.  
Prof. Krishnaswamy Vijayraghavan
Science and Engineering
Karnataka
  1.  
Dr. Manindra Agrawal
Science and Engineering
Uttar Pradesh
  1.  
Dr. Jayaraman Gowrishankar
Science and Engineering
Andhra Pradesh
  1.  
Prof. Sharad Pandurang Kale
Science and Engineering
Maharashtra
  1.  
Smt. Vandana Luthra
Trade and Industry
Delhi
  1.  
Ms. Rajshree Pathy
Trade and Industry
Tamil Nadu
  1.  
Shri Hemendra Prasad Barooah
Trade and Industry
Assam
  1.  
Shri Milind Kamble
Trade and Industry
Maharashtra
  1.  
Ms. Kalpana Saroj
Trade and Industry
Maharashtra
  1.  
Dr. Sudarshan K. Aggarwal
Medicine
Delhi
  1.  
Dr. C. Venkata S. Ram alias Chitta Venkata Sundara Ram
Medicine
Andhra Pradesh
  1.  
Dr. Rajendra Achyut Badwe
Medicine
Maharashtra
  1.  
Dr. Taraprasad Das
Medicine
Orissa
  1.  
Prof. (Dr.) T.V. Devarajan
Medicine
Tamil Nadu
  1.  
Prof. (Dr.) Saroj Chooramani Gopal
Medicine
Uttar Pradesh
  1.  
Dr. Pramod Kumar Julka
Medicine
Delhi
  1.  
Dr. Gulshan Rai Khatri
Medicine
Delhi
  1.  
Dr. Ganesh Kumar Mani
Medicine
Delhi
  1.  
Dr. Amit Prabhakar Maydeo
Medicine
Maharashtra
  1.  
Dr. Sundaram Natarajan
Medicine
Maharashtra
  1.  
Prof. Krishna Chandra Chunekar
Medicine
Uttar Pradesh
  1.  
Dr. Vishwa Kumar Gupta
Medicine
Delhi
  1.  
Prof. (Capt.) Dr. Mohammad Sharaf-e-Alam
Literature & Education
Bihar
  1.  
Dr. Radhika Herzberger
Literature & Education
Andhra Pradesh
  1.  
Shri J. Malsawma
Literature & Education
Mizoram
  1.  
Shri Devendra Patel
Literature & Education
Gujarat
  1.  
Dr. Rama Kant Shukla
Literature & Education
Delhi
  1.  
Prof. Akhtarul Wasey
Literature & Education
Delhi
  1.  
Prof. Anvita Abbi
Literature & Education
Delhi
  1.  
Shri Nida Fazli
Literature & Education
Madhya Pradesh
  1.  
Shri Surender Kumar Sharma
Literature & Education
Delhi
  1.  
Dr. Jagdish Prasad Singh
Literature & Education
Bihar
  1.  
Late Shaukat Riaz Kapoor Alias Salik Lakhnawi
Literature & Education
West Bengal #
  1.  
Prof. Noboru Karashima
Literature & Education
Japan *
  1.  
Shri Christopher Pinney
Literature & Education
UK *
  1.  
Smt. Premlata Agrawal
Sports
Jharkhand
  1.  
Shri Yogeshwar Dutt
Sports
Haryana
  1.  
Shri Hosanagara Nagarajegowda Girisha
Sports
Karnataka
  1.  
Subedar Major Vijay Kumar
Sports
Himachal Pradesh
  1.  
Shri Ngangom Dingko Singh
Sports
Maharashtra
  1.  
Naib Subedar Bajrang Lal Takhar
Sports
Rajasthan
  1.  
Ms. Ritu Kumar
Fashion Designing
Delhi
  1.  
Dr. Ravindra Singh Bisht
Archaeology
Uttar Pradesh

Note: * indicates awardees in the category of Foreigners / NRIs/ PIOs.
                # indicates awardees in the posthumous category.
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