Awards and Prizes

Much has been written before about awards and prizes. Not getting any award does not mean that the value of that human contribution has diminished. Although Gandhiji did not receive the Nobel Prize, this does not mean that Gandhiji is not a Mahatma. As time goes by, people and the world increasingly appreciate Gandhiji's contribution. In the world of awards, the Nobel Prize is the best contribution in the whole world. When the Magsaysay Award is given to the best talent in Asia, it can also be called the Nobel Prize in Asia.

 

The award is given by an organization from the Philippines. It is given in memory of former Philippine President Magsaysay. Contributed jointly by the New York-based Rockefeller Society and the Government of The Philippines. The award is given on Magsaysay's birthday i.e. 31st August and the amount is $ 50 thousand. It was founded in 1957. Many Indians have also been given this award.

 

In 1958, Vinoba Bhave received the Magsaysay Award. In the government service sector in 1959, C.D. Deshmukh received the Magsaysay Award. Other Indians include Varghese Courier's Amitabh Chaudhary, Ila Bhatt, Satyajit Ray, Jayaprakash Narayan, Arun Shourie, R.K. Laxman, Pandurang Athavale, Pandit Ravi Shankar, Kiran Bedi, Mahesh Mehta, Mahasweta Devi, James, Lingdoh, Arvind Kejriwal, Prakash Amte, Mandakini Amte, Bharat Vatwani, Santasinha and Sonam Wangchuk.

 

The awards put journalism, literature and communication in the same category. Among the award recipients, Ravish Kumar is the eleventh Indian. They treat any event with a neutral and different style. Earlier in the series, Sainath, Mahasweta Devi, Pandit Ravi Shankar, K.P. Subramaniam, R.K. Laxman, Arun Shourie, Gaurkishore Ghosh, BG Varghese, Satyajit Ray and Amitabh Chaudhary.

 

Ravi Kumar's neutrality and courage are crazy, he is a reporter for NDTV. He has hosted prime time and country talk. In 2016, the Indian Express Group ranked him among the 100 most talented Indians. He has received the Magsaysay Award for raising the voice of the poor on the public stage. His book Democracy Culture and Nation has become very popular and is based on facts.

 

Similarly, Anshu Gupta, the founder of an NGO called Gunj, received the Magsaysay Award in 2014. After working in the corporate world for a while, he started Gunj. The award was given for Creative Vision to donate as well as invaluable guidance to serve. Anshu Gupta's organization caters to the needs of the poor and plays a useful role in transporting unusable goods from one city to another. Similarly, Mr. Sanjeev Chaturvedi received the 2015 Magsaysay Award. He is a 2002 IFS officer.

 

He is the second IFS player after Kiran Bedi. Is the officer. Who has received this award. When Chaturvedi was in office, more than 200 cases came before him. Of which in 78 cases he was convicted. Chargesheets were filed in 87 cases and CBI investigations were started in 20 cases. "I want to improve the system and work for it," he says. At AIIMS, they fought corruption cases.

After that, he was removed from AIIMS under political pressure. He raised a number of questions against corruption in the Rs 3750 crore scheme. He was awarded for his exemplary honesty and courage and for his fight against corruption in government offices.

The Magsaysay Award is intended to demonstrate a spirit of public service. The award is given to any person or organization living in East-South, South-East, South-Asia as well as Asia. This year, for the third year in a row, the award has been canceled due to Corona.

In the Philippines in the 1950s, President Magsaysay launched a land reform program in the Philippines and thwarted communist infiltration. This made them popular all over the world. Born in 1907, Magsaysay died in a plane crash in 1957. The award was launched by the New York-based Rockefeller Company a month after his death. India's Ravi Kumar was given the award in the journalism category in 2019.

He was accompanied by Venin from Burma, Angkhana from Thailand, Raymondo from the Philippines and Kim Jong Un from South Korea. So far, 57 Indians have received the award. The awards are given in six areas namely (1) Government Service (2) Public Service (3) Community Leadership (3) Journalism and Literature (4) Peace and Understanding (4) Imaging Leadership. So far, 18 awards have been given in Imaging Leadership, 54 in Uncategorized, 47 in Government Service, 60 in Public Service, 59 in Community Leadership, 51 in Journalism and Others, 46 in Peace and International Understanding.

Awards are given in various fields and categories in the world. The highest award is the Nobel Prize. In which the first prize is more than 50 crores. The last prize was given equally to an Indian and a Pakistani girl. Malala, a Pakistani girl, bravely went to high school and survived a murderous attack by conservatives. Satyarthi, who campaigned for education in Indian Bihar, is still doing well in his field.

A service organization for the disabled and the blind runs in Uttarakhand. One section is in Braille. This script is a whole building. In which people from all over the world learn Braille. An organization of two sisters carries out various activities to empower women and empower them.

True service is called. Such organizations are run by different people in UP and Bihar. Abhaykumar Bang runs the water discovery movement. All these people do service work without any financial expectation. This is how a Sarvodaya activist in UP started the Chipko movement. Name of Sundarlal Bahuguna.

Various awards are also given in our country. Some awards are given by the government. E.g. Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan This series reaches to the typical Bharat Ratna.

Non-governmental organizations or NGOs also give some awards.

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