Karmaveer Puraskaar

The Karmaveer Puraskaar are awards instituted by the citizens and people of India. Positioned as the National People's Awards for Citizen Social Justice and Action, these awards are instituted by iCONGO- Confederation of NGOs – a Public-Private-People partnership in association with other partners from industry, media, government, students, SMEs and other sectors as a part of the Right every Wrong Movement. All the awardees are dubbed ‘The Noble Laureates’. These awards seek to celebrate and inspire individual citizen social responsibility, justice and action initiatives and are held every year on 26 November, the day the Indian Constitutional Pledge was signed.

Rationale

For the first time, these awards are for individual citizens from various sectors, for excellence and best practices in promoting social justice & action in their sector. Citizens are nominated and selected in the corporate, government, media, SME, students & other sectors, who have contributed to social justice & action. The award is given to citizens individually for their contribution in leading change and is not for any organization.

Karmaveer Puraskaar Noble Laureates, March, 2007

Lifetime Achievement Award for creating real wealth for the community

Dr. Verghese Kurien

Recognition for promoting social responsibility Mr. Harsh Mander

Mr. James Michael Lyngdoh

Ms. Anu Aga

Mr. Arun Maira

Mr. Crispino Lobo & Ms. Marcella D'souza

Mr. Vikram Akula

Karmaveer Puraskaar Noble Laureates, November 26, 2007

Lifetime Achievement Karmaveer Puraskaar

Dr. M.S. Swaminathan

Lifelong Fight for Social Justice and Action Karmaveer Puraskaar

Dr. Leo Rebello

Mr. Alyque Padamsee

Global Indian Karmaveer Puraskaar

Mr. Pavan Sukhdev

Civil Society Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar

Mr. Nanda Rana

Dr. Latika Rana

Mrs Shanti Raghavan

Professional Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar

Mr. Raj Bhandare

iCONGO-Deakin University Student Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar

Ms. Ishita Chaudhry

iCONGO-Business World Corporate Citizen in CSR Karmaveer Puraskaar

Mrs. Mamta Saikia

iCONGO-Business World Corporate Citizen in IT Karmaveer Puraskaar

Mr. Sridhar Reddy

iCONGO- Tehelka- CMS Media Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar

Ms. Revathi

Mr. Altaf Ahmad

Artistes for Change Karmaveer Puraskaar

Mr. Rahul Bose

Mr. Remo Fernandes

Ms. Sushma Veer

Kids for Change Karmaveer Puraskaar

Baby Benzy

Akhil Akkineni

iCONGO-Exchange 4 Media Young Creative Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar

Ankur Garg and Vivek Kumar Singh

Sportspeople for Change Karmaveer Puraskaar

Gopichand Pullela

Mahesh Bhupathi and Shvetha Bhupathi

Young Social Entrepreneur Karmaveer Puraskaar

Abhishek Bharadwaj

References

[http://www.righteverywrong.com Right every Wrong Homepage]

[http://www.icongo.in iCONGO Homepage]

[http://www.businessworld.in/content/view/3049/3132/ Business World Article]

[http://www.wri.org/stories/2007/04/wri-partners-win-awards-work-empowerment News story at World Resources Institute]

[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070301/delhi.htm#8 News story in The Tribune]

[http://www.prlog.org/10039973-rahul-bose-remo-alyque-padamsee-received-prestigious-icongo-karamveer-puraskar.html Press Release]