Bharat Ratna 2019 – Pranab Mukherji, Nanaji Deshmukh, Bhupen Hazarika

The Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award of the Republic of India, instituted in 1954. The award is conferred “in recognition of exceptional service/performance of the highest order”, without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex. The recommendations for the Bharat Ratna are made by the Prime Minister to the President, with a maximum of three nominees being awarded per year. The 2019 Bharat Ratna award has been bestowed upon three great personalities, namely former President Pranab Mukherjee, Social worker Nanaji Deshmukh and singer Bhupen Hazarika. Nanaji Deshmukh and singer Bhupen Hazarika were awarded Bharat Ratna posthumously.

Pranab Mukherjee served as the 13th President of India from 2012 until 2017. A veteran congressman, Pranab Mukherjee had held various key portfolios like Finance, Defence and External Affairs as Union Minister. Pranab Mukherjee was born in a Bengali family. He had exceled MA degree in Political Science and History and LL.B. from the University of Calcutta. He has also served as a professor of Political Science at Vidyanagar College in West Bengal. Before entering Politics, he worked as a journalist with ‘Desher Dak’.

Another Bharat Ratna recipient Nanaji Deshmukh laid great emphasis on education as a social worker. The first Saraswati Shishu Mandir was established by him at Gorakhpur in 1950. He was a member of RSS and also served as general secretary of Bharatiya Jana Sangh. During the Emergency Nanaji Deshmukh took part in Jai Prakash Narayan movement. He got elected as a member of Lok Sabha from Balrampur in 1977. He has also served as a nominated member of Rajya Sabha. Nanaji was awarded Padma Vibhushan in the year 1999.

Bhupen Hazarika was a playback singer, lyricist, musician, singer, poet and film-maker from Assam, widely known as Sudhakantha. He mainly wrote and sang in the Assamese language. His works were marked by humanity and universal brotherhood and have been translated and sung in many languages. He also served as a channel to introduce the culture and folk music of Assam and Northeast India to Hindi cinema at the national level.

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Priyanka Chopra – A Padma Shri with Hollywood Dreams

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Success isn’t new to Priyanka Chopra. Ever since she won the Miss World pageant in 2000, she has been setting new milestones for herself. In a career spanning 13 years, she has won a National Award for her role in Fashion (2009), and has successfully ventured into the international arena with her music album, which saw the actress singing for the first time. Priyanka, successfully worked in American sitcom, Quantico and gear up for second seasonof this show. She is also roped in by the Baywatch cast to play a negative role in the film. The Hollywood film also stars Zac Efron, Alexandra Daddario and Dwayne Johnson. But this January,the actor took her tally of achievements to a whole new level. In January, Priyanka bagged multiple awards for her performance in Bajirao Mastani (2015) and was announced the recipient of the Padma Shri.Priyanka Chopra makes India proud at the 88th Academy Awards. She was the only Indian presenter at the 88th Academy Awards. She has made the country proud with her achievements in the international arena. She was introduced as a ‘veteran of over 50 Bollywood films’.

She is also associated with “Save Girl” campaign.

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11th India-Russia Business Dialogues & 6th Eurasian Economic Congress on 4th December, 2019 Moscow, Russia

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SINGAPORE – June, 2011 India-Internation “Global Business Opportunities”

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Ms. Rekha Sharma

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Ms. Rekha Sharma assumed the charge of Chairperson, National Commission for Women on August 7, 2018. Previously Smt. Sharma held the additional charge of the Chairperson (I/C), National Commission for Women with effect from September 29, 2017. Smt. Sharma has been a Member of the Commission since August, 2015. Before joining the Commission, Smt. Sharma was actively associated with civil society organizations in different capacities. Smt. Sharma has worked extensively on issues impacting women’s lives. She has conducted over 50 inquiries in matters relating to deprivation of women’s rights and liberty. Smt. Sharma has been championing the cause of vulnerable sections of women, including women workers in tea gardens that have been closed, and women in shelter homes. The issues related to female prisoners are particularly close to her heart. She has actively been advocating for improving the conditions of the women prisoners, especially the undertrails. She has been visiting a number of jails and made recommendations for improving the facilities provided to the jail inmates. During her time at the Commission, Smt. Sharma has pro-actively been pursuing the concerns of the Indian women deserted by their NRI husbands living abroad including issues related to child custody. She has also extensively worked on the cases related to sexual harassment of women. Smt. Sharma has also conducted numerous capacity building programmes for police personnel in India. In addition, she has chaired a large number of Mahila Jan Sunwais/ Public Hearings, across the country, in which, over 2,000 complaints have been addressed. Married to an Army Officer, she has worked towards promoting better standard of living and education for wives and children of soldiers to make them more self reliant in order to brave the day-to-day rigors and challenges of the Army life. Prior to joining the Commission, she was a Member of the District Consumer & Redressal Forum in the Government of Haryana. Smt. Sharma has also been instrumental in the establishment of a registered NGO called ‘Haryana Mahila Uthan Samiti’ which works for the empowerment of rural women in the state.

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Ms. Stuti Kacker

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Chairperson, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, Government of India Ms. Stuti Kacker former Secretary, Disability Affairs, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, has taken over the charge of NCPCR as Chairperson in September 2015.Child protection and development being a major area with possibilities for corporate engagement, CSR VISION took the opportunity to interview her and share her vision with the readers.

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Prof. K. V. Thomas

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Kuruppasserry Varkey Thomas (born 10 May 1946), commonly known as K. V. Thomas, is an Indian politician from Kumbalangi in Ernakulam district, Kerala, India. He currently represents the Ernakulam Constituency of the 16th Lok Sabha. He was the Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, 2nd UPA Government; a member of the Indian Parliament; and a member of All India Congress Committee (since 1984).

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Dr. Subramanian Swamy

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Subramanian Swamy (born 15 September 1939) is an Indian politician, economist, statistician and polymath who serves as a nominated Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. Swamy has served as a member of the Planning Commission of India and was a Cabinet Minister in the Chandra Shekhar government. Earlier in November 1978, Swamy was member of the Group of Eminent persons and was called to Geneva, Switzerland to prepare a report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on Economic Co-operation between Developing countries (ECDC). Swamy also simplified trade procedures and formulated a new export strategy which became the forerunner of trade reform adopted subsequently. In 1994, Swamy was Chairman of the Commission on Labour Standards and International Trade by former Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao. He also serves as chairman of the Board of Governors of the SCMS Group of Educational Institutions in Kerala. He has written on foreign affairs of India dealing largely with People’s Republic of China (PRC), Pakistan and Israel. He was nominated to Rajya Sabha on 26 April 2016.

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