Awards and Prizes 2008-2009
Other awards and prizes
Awards and Prizes 2008-2009 – Magsaysay awards 2009, Jnanpith award, Miss Universe 2009,Miss India worldwide,Femina Miss India 2009,Man Booker Int’l, 2009, Green energy prize, Jamnalal Bajaj awards, Indira Gandhi award for national integration, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, Padma Shri
Magsaysay awards 2009: Deep Joshi (India), Kraisintu (Thailand), Antonio Oposa Jr. (Philippines), Ka Hsaw Wa (Burma). Ma Jun (China), Yu Xiaogang (China)
Jnanpith award 2006: Satya Vrat Shastri (Sanskrit), Ravindra Kelkar (Konkani)
Miss world 2008: Kseniya Sukhinova (Russia)
Miss universe 2009: Stefina Fernandez (Venezuela)
Mrs world 2008: Mrs Natayla Shmarenkova (Ukraine)
Miss earth 2008: Karala Henry (Philippines)
Miss India worldwide: Nikkitasha Marwaha
Femina Miss India 2009, Miss India universe: Ekta Chaudhary, Miss India world: Pooja Chopra, Miss India earth: Shreya Kishore
Norman Borlaug award, 2008: Dr. William Dvoark
Moortidevi award, 2005: Dr. Rammurti Sharma (Bharatiya Darshan ki Chintandhara)
Man Booker Int’l, 2009: Canadian short story writer Alice Munro
Man Booker, 2008: Arvind Adiga (The White Tiger)
Dadasaheb Phalke award 2006: Tapan Sinha
Bharat Ratna: Pandit Bhimsen Joshi
Gandhi award: Nelson Mandela
Jawahar Lal Nehru award for international understanding: for 2005- Wangari M. Maathai of Kenya, for 2006- Brazil President Luiz Nacio Lula da Silva, for 2007- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak
16th Vachaspati Puraskar: Mahakavi Swami Rambhadrachrya for his work Sribhargavaraghaviyam
Green energy prize: The world’s leading green energy prize has been awarded to the Aryavart Gramin Bank (AGB) in Uttar Pradesh
Green oscar: Dr. M.D. Madhusudan (India) Director of nature conservation foundation
Gandhi peace prize: Aung San Su Kyi
Jamnalal Bajaj awards: Yashpal Mittal, Dr. Anand Karve, Ms. Ashoka Gupta and Prof. Michael Nagler will be the recipients of the Jamnalal Bajaj awards for 2007
Indira Gandhi award for national integration: Indira Gandhi award for national integration for the year 2007 has been given to Kasturba Gandhi national memorial trust
UN climate change award: Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark has won a United Nations award for her efforts to fight climate change
Padma Vibhushan: Dr. Chandrika Prasad Srivastava (Civil Service), Sunderlal Bahuguna (Environment Conservation), Prof. D.P. Chattopadhyaya (Literature and Education), Prof. Jasbir Singh Bajaj (Medicine), Dr. Purshotam Lal (Medicine), Govind Narain (Public Affairs), Dr. Anil Kakodkar (Science and Engineering), Sister Nirmala (social work) and Dr. A.S. Ganguly (trade and industry)
Padma Bhushan: G. Sivarama Krishna Murthy alias Krishna, Prof. Ramanlal C. Mehta, Shamshad Begum, V.P. Dhananjayan and Smt. Shanta Dhananjayan, Dr. vaidyanathan Ganapathi Sthapati, S.K. Misra, Shekhar Gupta, Prof. Alappat Sreedhara Menon, C.K. Prahlad, D. Jayakanthan, Dr. (Smt) Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Kunwar Narain, Prof. Minoru Hara, Ramchandra Guha, Dr. Brijendra Kumar Rao, Vaidya Devendra Triguna, Dr. Khalid Hameed, Lt. Gen (Retd). Satish Nambiar, Dr. (Smt) Inderjit Kaur barthakur, Dr. Kirit Shantilal Parikh, Dr. Bhakta B. Rath, ConjeevaramSrirangachari Seshadri, Dr. Gurdip Singh Randhawa, Sam Pitroda, prof. (Dr.) Sarvagya Singh Katiyar, Prof. Thomas Kailath, Dr. Naganath Nayakawadi, Dr. (Smt.) Sarojini Varadappan, Abhinav Bindra and Anil Manibhai Naik
Padma Shri: Thilakan, A. Vivekh, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Dr. (Ms.) Ameena Ahmed Ahuja, Aruna Sairam, Devayani Chaymotty, Geeta Kapur, Govind Ram Nirmalkar, Gurumayum Gourakishor Sharma, Hashmat Ullah Khan, Helan Khan, Hemi Bawa, Pandit Hridayanath Mangeshkar, Iravatham Mahadevan, K.P. Udayabhanu, Kanneganti Brahmanandam, Prof. Kiran Seth, Kumar Sanu Bhattacharjee, Prof. Kiran Seth, Kumar Sanu Bhattacharjee, Prof. Dr. (Smt.) Leela Omchery, Mattannoor Sankarankutty Marar, Niranjan Goswami, Bhai Nirmal Singh Khalsa, Penaz Masani, Shri Prakash N. Dubey, Dr. Pratapaditya Pal, Ram Kishore Chhipa, Saoli Mitra, Skendrowell syiemlieh (Posthumous), Dr. Subrahmanyam Krishnaswamy, Suresh Dutta, Tafazzul Ali (posthumous), Udit Narayan, Vadakka Manalath Govindan alias kalamandalam Gopi, S.B. Ghosh Dastidar, Ameen Sayani, Abhay Chhajlani, A. Sankara Reddy, Alok Mehta, Dr. Bannanje Govindacharya, Dr. Birendranath Datta, Prof. Geshe Ngawang Samten, Prof. Jalees Ahmed Khan Tareen, Jayanta Mahapatra, Dr. John Ralston Marr, Lalthangfala Sailo, Laxman Bapu Mane, Dr. Mathoor Krishnamurty, Norden Tshering, Dr. Panchapakesa Jayaraman, Prof. Ram Shankar Tripathi, Prof. (Dr.) Ranbir Chander Sobti, Dr. Ravindra Nath Srivastava, Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, Shashi Deshpande, Sunny Varkey, Suresh Gundu Amonkar, Utpal K. Banerjee, A.K. Gupta, Alampur Saibaba Goud, Arvind Lal, Ashok K. Vaid, Dr. Ashok Kumar Grover, Dr. Balswarup Choubey, Dr. D.S. Rana, Dr. Govindan vijayaraghavan, Dr. Kalyan Banerjee, Shri P.R. Krishna Kumar, Dr. R. Sivaraaman, Dr. Shaik Khader Noordeen, Prof. (Dr.) Thanikachalam Sadagopan, Dr. Yash Gulati, K. Asungba Sangtam, Dr. (Ms.) Shyamlha Pappu, Prof. Syed Iqbal Hasnain, Goriparthi Narasimha Raju Yadv, Prof. Pramod Tandon, Bansilal Rathi, Begum Bilkees I. Latif, Cheril Krishna Menon, Rev. Fr. Joseph H. Pereira, K. Viswanathan, Keepu Tshering Lepcha, Prof. Shyam Sunder Maheshwari, Sunil Kanti Roy, Balbir Singh Khullar, Harbhajan Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Pankaj Advani, Surinder Mehta, Arunmugam Sakthivel, Dr. Bavaguthu Raghuram Shetty and R.K. Krishna Kumar
Gallantry awards: President Pratibha Devisingh Patil has conferred eight Kirti Chakras, one Bar to Shaurya Chakra and twenty five Shaurya Chakras to serving armed forces personnel and others for displaying conspicuous gallantry, indomitable courage and extreme devotion to duty. Besides fifteen Param Vishisht Seva Medals, two Uttam Yudh Seva Medals, one Bar to Ati Vishisht Seva Medal and twenty five Ati Vishisht Seva Medals were conferred on defence personnel for distinguished service of an exceptional order at a function at the Rashtrapati Bhawan on Mar 27.
The Kirti Chakra awardees were Maj Nungleppam Buddhimanta Singh, Lt Col Manish Shashikant Kadam (posthumous), Capt Paras Limboo, Sub Indra Bahadur Pun, Naik Tape Vajo (posthumous), Lt Col Osiris Das, Sashank Chandrasen Shinde (posthumous), Sapper V Satish
Bar to Shaurya Chakra was awarded to GS-10876W operator excavating machinery, II Zalim singh (posthumous)
The Shaurya Chakra recipients were Naik Mohd Sadiq, Maj Sukesh Verma, Naib Sub Kulwant singh (posthumous), Sowar Varinder Kumar Sharma (posthumous), Grenadier Khillu Ram Meena (posthumous), Rifleman Thoudam Sunil Singh, Capt Navjot Singh Bal, Sapper/operator executive machinery Budhu Khan (posthumous), Sepoy Ravinder Sharma, Maj Srinivasan Vikram Cherian, Supdt BR-II Mahendra Pratap Singh (posthumous), Mason C Govindaswamy (posthumous), Driver Mechanical Transport Grade II Surinder Pal (posthumous) Group Capt Suryakant Chintaman Chafekar (17013), Maj Amit Slathia, Assistant executive engineer (civil) Santosh Kumar Singh (posthumous), Driver Mechanical Transport Grade-II Jaikrit Singh Rawat (posthumous), Capt Anil Dhiman, Supdt Building and Road Grade-I M Sundaram (posthumous), Lance Naik Banai Singh Gurjar, Major Ravinder singh, Capt R Balakarthik, Lt Prashant Siwach, Capt Amitendra Kumar Singh, Naik Manesh PV.
Those who were decorated with Param Vishisht Seva Medal were Lt Gen Noble Thamburaj, Lt Gen Jayanta Kumar Mohanty, Lt Gen Tej Kumar Sapru, Lt Gen Vijay Kumar Singh, Air Marshal Gautam Nayyar, Air Marshal Sadasivan Radhakrishnan, Air Marshal Shiv Kumar Bhan, Lt Gen Yogendra Singh, Lt Gen Amarjeet Singh Sekhon, Lt Gen Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Lt Gen (Retd) Krishna Pillai Sankaranarayana Pillai Venugopal, Lt Gen (Retd) Narayan Mohanty, Vice Admiral Brij Krishna Kaul (Retd), Vice Admiral Rustom Faramroze Contractor (Retd)
While Lt Gen Rajinder Singh and Maj Gen Jatinder Singh Bajwa were awarded with Uttam Yudh Seva Medal, Lt Gen Baljit Singh Jaswal was given the Bar to Ati Vishisht Seva Medal.
Ati Vishisht Seva Medal: Lt Gen Pradeep Khanna, Lt Gen Rakesh Kumar Loomba, Lt Gen Arun Kumar Nanda, lt Gen Shreedharan Shyam Kumar, Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Lt Gen Shankar Ranjan Ghosh, Maj Gen Surendra Pratap Rai, Maj Gen Balakrishnan Venugopal Nair, Maj Gen Kanwal Jit Singh Oberoi, Maj Gen Ajay Kumar Singh, Maj Gen Ram Kanwar Hooda, Maj Gen Munish Sibal, Maj Gen Hira Lal Kakria, Maj Gen Syed Ata Hasnain, Maj Gen Jai Prakash Nehra, Vice Admiral Bola Radhakrishna Rao, Rear Admiral Ayalur Raman Radhakrishnan, Rear Admiral Mohinder Kumar Badhwar, Air Vice Marshal Jasbir Singh Panesar, Air Vice Marshal Sapan Kumar Karmakar, Air Vice Marshal Arup Raha, Air Marshal Muthumanickam Matheswaran, Air Commodore Gudipudi Rajendra Prasad, and Air Commodore Rao Biradavolu Keshav
Indira Gandhi prize 2008: Mohammad ElBaradei, Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency, (IAEA)
Commonwealth writers’ prize: Mumbai-born Indra Sinha on March 13 won the best book award for his vivid portrayal of the tragic 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy, in the Europe region category of the Commonwealth writers’ prize 2008
Saraswati Samman 2007: Naiyer Masud for ‘Taoos Chaman Ki Myna’
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards: The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awards for 2007 went to 11 scientists, including Narayanaswamy Srinivasan, Upinder Singh Bhalla, Amalendu Chandra, A. Ajayaghosh, Rama Govindarajan, B.V. Rajarama Bhat.
The 2008 award went to 10 scientists, L.S. Shashidhara, Jarugu Narasimha Moorthy, P.N. Vinayachandran.
The prime minister also gave away the CSIR award for science and technology innovations for rural development. For 2007, the award was conferred jointly on the National Research centre on Yak (NRC-Yak) in Dirang in Arunachal Pradesh for ‘improvement of sustainable Yak husbandry practices in the Himalayan Region’.
The CSIR award for 2008 jointly went to Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSMCRI) in Bhavnagar in Gujarat and Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CIMAP) in Lucknow
The CSIR Diamond Jubilee technology award 2007 was given to Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M) limited for ‘development and commercialization of Scorpio’.
Sahitya Akademi awards: Seven novelists are among the 21 literatures who were on Dec 23 chosen for the National Sahitya Akademi awards for this year. Six poets, five short story writers and three critics were also selected for the coveted award.
K.P. Appan, a well-known critic who died recently, won the award for his collection of essays in Malayalam, ‘Madhuram Ninte Jeevitham.’ Kashmiri writer Nabi Aatash and Sindhi writer Hiro Shewkani, both critics, also won the award. Another prominent winner is Hindi novelist Govind Mishra, who got the award for his novel, ‘Kohre Mein Kaid Rang’.
The novelists who were selected for the award are: Rita Choudhary (Assamese), Vidya Sagar Narzary (Bodo), Srinivas B. Vaidya (Kannada), Ashok Kamat (Konkani), Shyam Manohar (Marathi) and Mitter Sain Meet (Punjabi)
Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay (Bengali), Champa Sharma (Dogri), A.O. Memchoubi (Manipuri), Pramod Kumar Mohanty (Oriya), Om Prakash Pande (Sanskrit) and Jayant Parmer (Urdu) were the poets selected for the award.
Among short story writers, Suman Shah (Gujarati), Shri ‘Kirat’ (Nepali), Dinesh Panchal (Rajasthani), Badal Hembam (Santhali) and Melanmai Ponnusamy (Tamil) were the winners.
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