Important Awards in India by Dr. Gaurav Garg
Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award
● Lal Bahadur Shastri was former Prime Minister of India and he was awarded Bharat Ratna.
● The award was started in 1999 and is provided to a business leader, management practitioner, public administrator,
educator or institution builder for his/her sustained individual contributions for achievements of high professional order and excellence.
● This award is given by the President of India .
● Awarded for Excellence in Public Administration, Academics and Management.
● 1 st Winner – C K Prahlad .
Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award ( Rajiv Gandhi National Communal Harmony Award )
● It is an Indian award given for outstanding contribution towards promotion of communal harmony, national integration and peace.
● The award was instituted by All India Congress Committee of the Indian National Congress Party (INC), in 1992 to commemorate the lasting contribution made by the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, it carries a citation and a cash award.
● Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in 1991.
● It is given on 20 August , the birth anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi, which is celebrated as Sadbhavna Diwas (Harmony Day).
● 1 st Winner - Jagan Nath Kaul in 1995. Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration
● In order to uphold the cause of national integration and understanding which was dearest to Indira Gandhi’s heart, the Congress in its centenary year (1985, INC was founded in 1885 by A. O. Hume) instituted the ‘Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration’, to give recognition to outstanding contribution to this cause by individuals or institutions.
● Indira Gandhi was assassinated in 1984.
● The award consists of a citation and cash to be given to the awardee on 31st October , the Martyrdom Day of India’s former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Award is generally given by the President of Indian National Congress Party. Bidhan Chandra Roy Award
● It was instituted in 1962 in memory of B. C. Roy by Medical Council of India.
● It is considered as the highest honour for doctors in India.
● The Award is given annually in each of the following categories: Statesmanship of the Highest Order in India
✓ Medical man-cum-Statesman.
✓ Eminent Medical Person.
✓ Eminent person in Philosophy (PhD).
✓ Eminent person in Science and Eminent person in Arts.
● It is presented by the President of India in New Delhi on July 1 , National Doctors' Day .
● 1 st Winner - 1973 Sandip Mukerjee. Nari Shakti Puraskar
● Annual award given by the Ministry of Women and Child Development to individual women or to institutions that work towards the cause of women empowerment.
● The awards are presented by the President of India on International Women's Day ( 8 March ), at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
● The awards were instituted in 1999 under the title of Stree Shakti Puraskar and were renamed and reorganised in 2015.
● Categories under Nari Shakti Puraskar
✓ Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar Award for best private sector organization or public sector undertaking in promoting the well-being and welfare of women.
✓ Kannagi Devi Award for best state which has appreciably improved Child Sex Ratio (CSR).
✓ Mata Jijabai Award for best urban local body for providing services and facilities to women.
✓ Rani Gaidinliu Zeliang Award given to a civil society organisation.
✓ Rani Lakshmi Bai Award given to the best institution for research and development in the field of women empowerment.
✓ Rani Rudramma Devi Awards given to two District Panchayats and two Gram Panchayats for work in the area of women welfare especially related to the Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Yojana.
National Bravery Award
● The National Bravery Awards are a set of awards given annually to about 25 Indian children below 16 years of age for
"meritorious acts of bravery against all odds."
● The awards are given by the Government of India and the Indian Council for Child Welfare (ICCW).
● The award was instituted in 1957.
● This award is announced on 14th November (Children’s Day) and awarded on 25th January .
● The National Bravery Awards consist of 5 categories, which are .
1.The Bharat Award.
2.The Geeta Chopra Award.
3.The Sanjay Chopra Award.
4.The Bapu Gaidhani Award.
5. The General National Bravery Awards.
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
● It is one of the highest multidisciplinary science awards in India.
● It was instituted in 1958 by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in honor of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, its
founder director and recognizes excellence in scientific research in India.
● Categories :-
✓ Biological Sciences.
✓ Chemical Sciences.
✓ Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences.
✓ Engineering Sciences.
✓ Mathematical Sciences.
✓ Medical Sciences.
✓ Physical Sciences.
Dr. Ambedkar National Award
● National Award for Social Understanding and Upliftment of Weaker Sections is a national award presented by the Government of India in honour of B. R. Ambedkar, the country's first law minister, father of the Indian Constitution and champion of human rights.
● It was established in 1992 and is administered by the Dr. Ambedkar foundation to people or organizations for their outstanding work.
● This award is provided by the hands of the President of India . The Tagore Award
● It is an award given in commemoration of the 150 th birth anniversary of the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) for cultural harmony.
● Established in 2011 by Government of India , it is given for outstanding achievement in fostering harmony and universalism and values of cultural harmony especially in conflict or extreme situations through innovative systems/strategies
● The first award was given in 2012 to Pandit Ravi Shankar by the President of India Pranab Mukherjee The Kalidas Samman
● It is a prestigious arts award presented annually by the government of Madhya Pradesh in India.
● The award is named after Kalidas, a renowned Classical Sanskrit writer of ancient India.
● The Kalidas Samman was first awarded in 1980 .
● It was conferred every year in the fields of Classical Music, Classical Dance, Theatre and Plastic Arts. Krishi Karman Awards
● These awards were instituted by the Ministry of Agriculture in 2010-11 for recognizing the meritorious efforts of the states in food grains production .
● The awards are given to the best performing States in two broad sets.
● One for total food grains production and the other for individual food grain crops of Rice, Wheat, Pulses and Coarse Cereals.
● Second for overall productions, it is awarded in 3 categories.
National Film Awards
● The National Awards for films, which were started as an annual awards in 1954 , when the very first awards for the films of 1953 were given.
● The awards are given in three sections – Feature Films (e.g. Films which are for entertainment and generally fiction films) , Non-Feature Films (e.g. Films which are documentaries type and based on real incidents) and Best Writing on Cinema.
● Feature films must have a plot and they are mostly works of fiction, unless it is a historical or a biopic. The main aim of the feature film is to entertain and the project is made as per commercial standards. A non-feature film, which may also be called a documentary, draws upon reality and presents a point of view about a certain topic.
● Six categories from the Feature Films section, two from Non-Feature Films and Best Writing on Cinema sections each have been made eligible for Swarna Kamal ( Golden Lotus Award ) and rest of the categories for Rajat Kamal ( Silver Lotus Award ).
● The National Awards along with cinema's highest honour, Dadasaheb Phalke award , are presented by the President of India
in a solemn function in the presence of the Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Chairpersons of the three
juries, representatives of Film Federation of India and Confederation of All India Cine Employees and senior official.
Mother Teresa Memorial Awards
● The Mother Teresa Awards, officially called the Mother Teresa Memorial Awards for Social Justice, are international and national awards presented annually to honour individuals and organizations that promote peace, equality and social justice.
● The awards are given in honour of Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa was awarded Bharat Ratna and Nobel Prize.
● Mother Teresa Awards have been given since 2004 annually or biannually. They are an initiative of Harmony Foundation , an organization created by Abraham Mathai in Mumbai.
The SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
● The SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, founded by Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy (SASTRA) located near Kumbakonam, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan's hometown, is awarded every year to a young mathematician judged to have done outstanding work in Ramanujan's fields of interest.
● The age limit for the prize has been set at 32 (the age at which Ramanujan died).
The International Gandhi Peace Prize
● The International Gandhi Peace Prize, named after Mahatma Gandhi, is awarded annually by the Government of India .
● As a tribute to the ideals espoused by Gandhi, the Government of India launched the International Gandhi Peace Prize in 1995 on the occasion of the 125th birth anniversary of Mohandas Gandhi.
● This is an annual award given to individuals and institutions for their contributions towards social, economic and political transformation through non-violence and other Gandhian methods.
● It is open to all persons regardless of nationality, race, creed or gender.
● A jury consisting of the Prime Minister of India, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, the Chief Justice of India, Speaker of the Lok Sabha and one other eminent person decides the awardee each year.
The UNESCO Kalinga Prize
● The UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science is an international award to reward exceptional contributions made by individuals in communicating science to society and promoting the popularization of science.
● The UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science is UNESCO’s oldest prize , created in 1951 following a donation from Mr Bijoyanand Patnaik, Founder and President of the Kalinga Foundation Trust in India. Today, the Prize is funded by the Kalinga Foundation Trust, the Government of the State of Orissa, India, and the Government of India (Department of Science and Technology).
CIVILIAN AWARDS
● Civilian Awards are conferred to people with outstanding achievements in their field of work.
● These awards are presented to the respective recipients by the President of India on Republic Day .
● The inception year of these Civilian awards is 1954.
● Civilian Awards are categorized according to the degree of honour. The Civilian awards conferred are:
✓ Bharat Ratna - 1st degree of honour.
✓ Padma Vibhushan - 2nd degree of honour.
✓ Padma Bhushan - 3rd degree of honour.
✓ Padma Shri- 4th degree of honour.
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