tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16420031946058543242024-03-05T14:56:59.297+05:30Sansad Ratna(Top performers of Indian Parliament)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger125125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1642003194605854324.post-12791073794288738582024-03-05T11:09:00.000+05:302024-03-05T11:09:02.489+05:3014th Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2024 - Speeches of Shri Ajay Kumar Mishra and Justice Shri Sanjay Kishan Kaul<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEYmNv_oM39QlqT7B3A_2sZnwBSoE1OmA9zen6tPlavfzf_UI2k31vxEY7gl1IJ1pDOptWQtHNyZlzcSaXZ_IinfzOPEhsR2QPRew3f4L5Nl5mkOtEJcgL-oxlaHFpOfY8l4kkf_M1fR_3tsmqA2pVClcoppX1GJo2Qf8Q2MYym3urlbbKngoKnyx50EM/s3776/DSC02055.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="14th Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2024 - Speeches of Shri Ajay Kumar Mishra and Justice Shri Sanjay Kishan Kaul" border="0" data-original-height="2832" data-original-width="3776" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEYmNv_oM39QlqT7B3A_2sZnwBSoE1OmA9zen6tPlavfzf_UI2k31vxEY7gl1IJ1pDOptWQtHNyZlzcSaXZ_IinfzOPEhsR2QPRew3f4L5Nl5mkOtEJcgL-oxlaHFpOfY8l4kkf_M1fR_3tsmqA2pVClcoppX1GJo2Qf8Q2MYym3urlbbKngoKnyx50EM/w640-h480/DSC02055.JPG" title="14th Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2024 - Speeches of Shri Ajay Kumar Mishra and Justice Shri Sanjay Kishan Kaul" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">14th Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2024 function was held at New Delhi on February 17, 2024 to honour the outstanding Parliamentarians of the 17th Lok Sabha. Please <a href="https://www.sansadratna.in/2024/03/14th-edition-of-sansad-ratna-awards.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">click here for a detailed report..</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Please listen to the speech of Shri Ajay Kumar Mishra, Hon'ble Minister of State, Home Affairs, Government of India.</span></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VwUec2O3XT8?si=MjWAX0kbZjNKrg5m" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Justice Shri Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Former Judge, Supreme Court of India delivered the Key Note Addre</span>ss.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMW11nyHuINr4-rICVNBYHuD3Wool0kQctKQVPmyWCy5cwwuCNw2M5bUR_Vn4QTYsRt1FKwXgHvMDMytbvEwhuttKj-kpAabaGV0NUgR7Xkc5zzc9DIa-exNlV9Mfcpar9dwFLBVnUc4VC4qHjm2VSS7a2tVTm6v_xq3bzfs8dvzRP5JKYBHsKddI3FzU/s3776/DSC02046.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="14th Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2024 - Speeches of Shri Ajay Kumar Mishra and Justice Shri Sanjay Kishan Kaul" border="0" data-original-height="3776" data-original-width="2832" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMW11nyHuINr4-rICVNBYHuD3Wool0kQctKQVPmyWCy5cwwuCNw2M5bUR_Vn4QTYsRt1FKwXgHvMDMytbvEwhuttKj-kpAabaGV0NUgR7Xkc5zzc9DIa-exNlV9Mfcpar9dwFLBVnUc4VC4qHjm2VSS7a2tVTm6v_xq3bzfs8dvzRP5JKYBHsKddI3FzU/w480-h640/DSC02046.JPG" title="14th Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2024 - Speeches of Shri Ajay Kumar Mishra and Justice Shri Sanjay Kishan Kaul" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Please listen to his informative speech.</span><div><br /><div><br /></div></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/v6SPs3hPYuA?si=Pr65S7_lWXzipMDp" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1642003194605854324.post-54241616968996667882024-03-05T10:35:00.004+05:302024-03-05T10:35:47.189+05:3014th Editio of Sansad Ratna Awards function - Speeches of Shri Hansraj Ahir and Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4PH0IHlAcK4NhkLOZmy8ocZ_UBN9TraJaQeFfxMgZL4BjKbAJgsaRHQbWWsnuI0hcAwxNxPAF7S7i3OHK6-mcWB8Agpc1yN4ZKq7ggf-zUBbhYZbQBVN0-dK2_rdGazpNP3OknofCAP22S6aWjf-S00N6UDRa3Wx7OAW76DjI_GhZF2op_fDp_GM8I6s/s3776/DSC02080.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="14th Editio of Sansad Ratna Awards function - Speeches of Shri Hansraj Ahir and Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan" border="0" data-original-height="3776" data-original-width="2832" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4PH0IHlAcK4NhkLOZmy8ocZ_UBN9TraJaQeFfxMgZL4BjKbAJgsaRHQbWWsnuI0hcAwxNxPAF7S7i3OHK6-mcWB8Agpc1yN4ZKq7ggf-zUBbhYZbQBVN0-dK2_rdGazpNP3OknofCAP22S6aWjf-S00N6UDRa3Wx7OAW76DjI_GhZF2op_fDp_GM8I6s/w480-h640/DSC02080.JPG" title="14th Editio of Sansad Ratna Awards function - Speeches of Shri Hansraj Ahir and Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan" width="480" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">14th Editio of Sansad Ratna Awards function was held on February 17, 2024 at New Delhi to honour the outstanding Parliamentarians of the 17th Lok Sabha. <a href="https://www.sansadratna.in/2024/03/14th-edition-of-sansad-ratna-awards.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Click for details.</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Shri Hansraj G Ahir, Hon'ble Chairman, National Commission for Backward Classes was one of the Chief Guests. He is in the rank of the Cabinet Minister of the Union Government. Please listen to his speech.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xo04GSnmhDc?si=kdqy5Pm6ef4k532y" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dr. Smt. Tamilisai Soundararajan, Hon'ble Governor of Telangana and Hon'ble LG of Puducherry was also one of the Chief Guests to present the Awards. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEvHOm0Xm0pDcYj1AJmFRsmND8xXaso3dzf-h74_x41sduuIB3eZ4S3Y1BYq6rBmS268QGRdhk1mPYj6wuUURnEIDzCU9O31MRKSL6qNg-YXMFZDP-ECgJpuexrCX6Qnv5DBXjs3yDNUMrJ77_rBWfLxdYT5zO48s5N74taXpDGDVAsxTMV0j0yYb7PAI/s3776/DSC02077.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="14th Editio of Sansad Ratna Awards function - Speeches of Shri Hansraj Ahir and Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan" border="0" data-original-height="3776" data-original-width="2832" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEvHOm0Xm0pDcYj1AJmFRsmND8xXaso3dzf-h74_x41sduuIB3eZ4S3Y1BYq6rBmS268QGRdhk1mPYj6wuUURnEIDzCU9O31MRKSL6qNg-YXMFZDP-ECgJpuexrCX6Qnv5DBXjs3yDNUMrJ77_rBWfLxdYT5zO48s5N74taXpDGDVAsxTMV0j0yYb7PAI/w480-h640/DSC02077.JPG" title="14th Editio of Sansad Ratna Awards function - Speeches of Shri Hansraj Ahir and Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan" width="480" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Please listen to her speech.</span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EBamGE6_SAg?si=wTKb-hyYoR9ou9hw" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1642003194605854324.post-92221909461606598312024-03-03T19:33:00.001+05:302024-03-03T19:33:09.637+05:3014th Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2024 held at New Delhi on February 17, 2024 to honour the outstanding Indian Parliamentarians<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> 14th Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2024</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQk-xk3qa3U62nO6jEiwDwxR2szdvLjoLzpSBHoq39C-z498z_G1Ay__oZL3YOuwas4J4jT_S1k-MNarUohis4dKfL1LD3D4QxEcKNDWgncDz_OkYlWyTWEEAeMb8Y2pW_ifO0t0WkG2txQKyP6t2gxbJgC8X5XIllQR-xjlaFzfxGXE5P51egPzCh4aNn/s3776/group%20photo%20during%20the%20award%20function2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A Comprehensive Report on the 14th Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2024 held at New Delhi on February 17, 2024 to honour the outstanding Indian Parliamentarians" border="0" data-original-height="2832" data-original-width="3776" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQk-xk3qa3U62nO6jEiwDwxR2szdvLjoLzpSBHoq39C-z498z_G1Ay__oZL3YOuwas4J4jT_S1k-MNarUohis4dKfL1LD3D4QxEcKNDWgncDz_OkYlWyTWEEAeMb8Y2pW_ifO0t0WkG2txQKyP6t2gxbJgC8X5XIllQR-xjlaFzfxGXE5P51egPzCh4aNn/w640-h480/group%20photo%20during%20the%20award%20function2.JPG" title="A Comprehensive Report on the 14th Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2024 held at New Delhi on February 17, 2024 to honour the outstanding Indian Parliamentarians" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">The 14th edition of the Sansad Ratna Awards 2024 took place on February 17, 2024, at New Maharashtra Sadan in New Delhi. The ceremony aimed to recognize and honour the exceptional Parliamentarians and Committees of the 17th Lok Sabha.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Twelve individual Parliamentarians and three Parliamentary Standing Committees received the prestigious Sansad Ratna Awards this year, spanning across three distinct categories.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Sansad Utkrishta Maha Ratna Awards were presented to those individual Members who had previously been Sansad Maha Ratna Awardees in the 16th Lok Sabha and continued to demonstrate consistent performance in the 17th Lok Sabha. Shri Bhartruhari Mahtab (BJD, Odisha), Smt. Supriya Sule (NCP, Maharashtra), and Shri Shrirang Appa Barne (Shiv Sena, Maharashtra) were honoured with this award.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Sansad Maha Ratna Awards - Individuals were bestowed upon Members of the Lok Sabha who exhibited unwavering consistent performance in initiating debates, presenting private members' bills, and raising questions throughout the 17th Lok Sabha, from its inception to its conclusion. Shri N K Premachandran (RSP, Kerala), Shri Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury (INC, West Bengal), Shri Bidyut Baran Mahato (BJP, Jharkhand), and Dr. Heena Vijayakumar Gavit (BJP, Maharashtra) were recipients of this award, which is presented only once every five years.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Sansad Maha Ratna Awards - Committees were dedicated to Parliamentary Committees that rendered exemplary service in the democracy. These awards were presented to Committees that consistently performed well in sittings and the presentation of reports during the tenure of the 17th Lok Sabha. The Finance Committee (Chairman: Shri Jayant Sinha), Agriculture Committee (Chairman: Shri Addi Gowdar), and Transport, Tourism, and Culture Committee (Chairman: Shri Vijaysai Reddy and past chairman: Shri T G Venkatesh) were acknowledged for their outstanding contributions.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sansad Ratna Awards were presented to the individual Members of Lok Sabha for their outstanding and top performance in the 17th Lok Sabha, in the areas of initiated debates, private members bills and questions. Dr Sukanta Majumdar (BJP, West Bengal), Shri Kuldeep Rai Sharma (INC, Andaman and Nicobar Islands), Shri Sudhir Gupta (BJP, Madhya Pradesh), Dr Amol Ramsing Kolhe (NCP, Maharashtra) and Dr Shrikant Shinde (Shiv Sena, Maharashtra) were honoured with this Award.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Chief Guests at the event were Shri Hansraj G Ahir (Hon'ble Chairman, National Commission for Backward Classes), Dr. Smt. Tamilisai Soundararajan (Hon'ble Governor, Telangana, and Hon'ble LG, Puducherry), Shri Ajay Mishra (Hon'ble MoS, Home Affairs), and Justice Shri Sanjay Kishan Kaul (Former Judge, Supreme Court of India). They presented the awards to the deserving recipients.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Prime Point Foundation also released three eBooks (1) Handbook for Young Indian Political aspirants, (2) Digist of Cover Stories published in 2023 and (3) The Digest of Editorials published during the years 2020 to 2023. With this Prime Point Foundation has published 36 ebooks.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Following the awards ceremony, all awardees participated in a photo session with the Hon'ble President of India and subsequently with the Hon'ble Vice President of India.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">For a visual recap of the event, you can view the photos at the following link: </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/2QxrHGGaWjUryjyG8">https://photos.app.goo.gl/2QxrHGGaWjUryjyG8</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Additionally, you can watch the videos of the Sansad Ratna 2024 event in the provided YouTube playlist: </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/PLnU8HzYLSLcrJVtJmuCcv5TImNDOtFy6x/videos">https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/PLnU8HzYLSLcrJVtJmuCcv5TImNDOtFy6x/videos</a></span></p><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1642003194605854324.post-22600538041422501972024-03-03T18:02:00.001+05:302024-03-03T19:29:54.962+05:3014th Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2024 held at New Delhi | A Comprehensive Report in eMagazine PreSense Feb 2024 Edition<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-kg6-JLtwoh8c3p9i_qh6ldN3C0NWfeXc1PEFZTyKas5GZu9f4odI4jk671Q0r7TJ9SJ0zqxzExa_HefUi3UNa5VJiatcXpuA7vzIQs2fFv7t9NjGYLrJAB_sC9js83Ob9dbgQKLQKhw0kU37cBzYXNHeJ5yW8wZQqjb0y5lYGkV0t3zVhaH6bFEJj4E/s600/banner%20for%20facebook%20template%20copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="204th (Feb 2024) Wsiion | Comprehensive report on 14th Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2024 held at Delhi on Feb 17, 2024 to honour outstanding Parliamentarians of 17th Lok Sabha" border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-kg6-JLtwoh8c3p9i_qh6ldN3C0NWfeXc1PEFZTyKas5GZu9f4odI4jk671Q0r7TJ9SJ0zqxzExa_HefUi3UNa5VJiatcXpuA7vzIQs2fFv7t9NjGYLrJAB_sC9js83Ob9dbgQKLQKhw0kU37cBzYXNHeJ5yW8wZQqjb0y5lYGkV0t3zVhaH6bFEJj4E/w640-h320/banner%20for%20facebook%20template%20copy.jpg" title="204th (Feb 2024) Wsiion | Comprehensive report on 14th Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2024 held at Delhi on Feb 17, 2024 to honour outstanding Parliamentarians of 17th Lok Sabha" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">We are delighted to announce the release of the 204th (Feb 2024) Edition of eMagazine PreSense.</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">PreSense was launched in March 2006 based on the suggestion of Dr Abdul Kalam to promote positive journalism. With this edition, we celebrate our 18-year journey in digital journalism. One of our key initiatives is the 'Sansad Ratna Awards', which recognizes the outstanding performance of Indian Parliamentarians.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In this edition, you will find a detailed report on the 14th Edition of the Sansad Ratna Awards 2024, which took place in New Delhi on February 17, 2024. We were honoured to have a photo session with the Hon'ble President of India and the Hon'ble Vice President of India after the Award ceremony. We encourage you to read this edition for the full report and share it with others.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You can also download this edition from the following link:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">https://www.prpoint.com/ezine/presense0224.pdf</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Please watch the Award function</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rPIliHzauxE?si=gM9XAYsMHPI6aPtZ" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Twelve Lok Sabha MPs and three Parliamentary Standing
Committees nominated for the ‘Sansad
Ratna Awards’ based on their performance in the 17<sup>th</sup> Lok Sabha<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">New Delhi, January 7, 2024: The
prestigious Sansad Ratna and Sansad Maha Ratna Awards have been announced for
the 17th Lok Sabha, to honour twelve distinguished Parliamentarians and three
Standing Committees of Parliament in recognition of their exemplary
performances.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">‘Sansad Ratna Awards’ presented annually and ‘Sansad Maha Ratna Award,’
presented once in five years by the Chennai-based NGO Prime Point Foundation
and the eMagazine PreSense, acknowledge outstanding performances of MPs in the
Parliament. Prime Point Srinivasan, the Founder and Chairman of Prime Point
Foundation, said these awards are based on comprehensive performance, with
nominees selected by a distinguished Jury Committee chaired by Arjun Ram
Meghwal, Minister of State for Law and Parliamentary Affairs, and T. S.
Krishnamurthy, Former Chief Election Commissioner of India. The performance
data is sourced from the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha websites and the PRS
Legislative Research. This is the only Award presented by civil society to honour
the top-performing Parliamentarians in India. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Sansad Ratna Awards Committee,
led by Priyadharshni Rahul, Trustee Secretary of Prime Point Foundation and the
Chairman of Sansad Ratna Awards Committee, announced the recipients for the
Sansad Maha Ratna Awards for the entire 17th Lok Sabha. These include NK
Premachandran (RSP, Kerala), Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury (Indian National Congress,
West Bengal), Bidyut Baran Mahato (BJP, Jharkhand), and Dr. Heena Vijayakumar
Gavit (BJP, Maharashtra). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">“Recognising the continued consistent top performance of Supriya Sule
(NCP, Maharashtra), Shrirang Appa Barne (Shiv Sena, Maharashtra), and
Bhartruhari Mahtab (BJD, Odisha), the Sansad Maha Ratna Awardees of the
previous 16th Lok Sabha, the Jury
Committee has decided to honour them for their 'Exemplary Performance'
in the 17th Lok Sabha as well”. These three Members would be honoured with
“Sansad Utkrisht Mana Ratna” Award”, said Priyadharshni Rahul.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">She further added that five Lok Sabha Members, Sudhir Gupta (BjP, Madhya
Pradesh), Dr Shrikanth Eknath Shinde
(Shiv Sena, Maharashtra), including first time MPs Dr Sukanta Majumdar (BJP,
West Bengal), Kuldeep Rai Sharma (Congress, Andaman and Nicobar Islands) and Dr
Amol Ramsingh Kolhe (NCP, Maharashtra will receive the “Sansad Ratna” Awards. Kuldeep Rai Sharma, Dr Amol Ramsingh Kolhe
and Sudhir Gupta are receiving the Award for the third time for their
performance in the 17<sup>th</sup> Lok Sabha”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “All the above MPs are nominated
by the Jury Committee for the Awards transparently, based on their outstanding
performance in Initiated debates, Private Members Bills and Questions since the
inception of the 17<sup>th</sup> Lok Sabha”, added Priyadharshni Rahul.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sansad Maha Ratna Awards were not previously conferred upon
Parliamentary committees. Considering
the importance of these Committees, starting from the current 17th Lok Sabha,
three Standing Committees have been included in the Sansad
Maha Ratna Awards. The Agriculture Committee chaired by P C Gaddi Gowdar (BJP,
Karnataka), the Finance Committee chaired by Jayant Sinha (BJP, Jharkhand), and
the Transport and Tourism Committee presently
chaired by Vijayasai Reddy (YSR Congress, Andhra Pradesh) and formerly chaired
by T G Venkatesh (BJP, Andhra Pradesh) have been nominated for their consistent
contributions based on sittings and the reports presented by them, relying on
the data commensurate with the term of 17<sup>th</sup> Lok Sabha. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The prestigious awards are scheduled to be presented at a grand ceremony
on February 17, 2024, in Delhi, marking the 14th edition of the event. Prime
Point Foundation instituted these honours at the instance of Dr. Abdul Kalam,
former President of India, who himself inaugurated the first award event in
2010 in Chennai. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sansad Ratna Awards are presented annually to the top performing
Parliamentarians based on their performance, while Sansad Maha Ratna awards are
presented once in five years for the consistency of performance during the term
of the Lok Sabha. Till March 2023, 106 Sansad Ratna Awards have been presented
through 13 award ceremonies making it the only award presented by any civil
society at a global level to the best-performing Parliamentarians.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ends</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1642003194605854324.post-67702927665350361012023-12-12T11:43:00.003+05:302023-12-12T11:43:43.189+05:30Four Lok Sabha MPs and three Parliamentary Standing Committees nominated for the ‘Sansad Maha Ratna Awards’ based on their consistency of performance in the 17th Lok Sabha<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqHiFcmx4DzyVCQFx0xnchlZ9yRkhaE-xdixYJjAb-RF4NYsPdWgPGT-OxxceH_ckAti44FoYW4Ce2IIWFKRjDN52X9a7arayeMzwAwJvF_0uzUt7SWkcfEImxYlGTiorS3OI1NMyP31A0IzQ5Y_Bgmc4gKe7ljcD3Wl4XWRnurV21W03AMHI0ye9_lR2F/s1000/super%20performers%20of%20LS.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Four Lok Sabha MPs and three Parliamentary Standing Committees nominated for the ‘Sansad Maha Ratna Awards’ based on their consistency of performance in the 17th Lok Sabha" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1000" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqHiFcmx4DzyVCQFx0xnchlZ9yRkhaE-xdixYJjAb-RF4NYsPdWgPGT-OxxceH_ckAti44FoYW4Ce2IIWFKRjDN52X9a7arayeMzwAwJvF_0uzUt7SWkcfEImxYlGTiorS3OI1NMyP31A0IzQ5Y_Bgmc4gKe7ljcD3Wl4XWRnurV21W03AMHI0ye9_lR2F/w640-h384/super%20performers%20of%20LS.jpg" title="Four Lok Sabha MPs and three Parliamentary Standing Committees nominated for the ‘Sansad Maha Ratna Awards’ based on their consistency of performance in the 17th Lok Sabha" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Press Release</span></span></b><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Four Lok Sabha MPs and three Parliamentary Standing
Committees nominated for the ‘Sansad
Maha Ratna Awards’ based on their consistency of performance in the 17<sup>th</sup>
Lok Sabha<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Chennai, December 12, 2023: The
prestigious Sansad Maha Ratna Awards (presented once in five years) have been
announced for the 17th Lok Sabha, to honour four distinguished Parliamentarians
and three Standing Committees of Parliament in recognition of their consistent
and exemplary performances.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">‘Sansad Maha Ratna Award,’ presented once in five years by the
Chennai-based NGO Prime Point Foundation and the eMagazine PreSense,
acknowledges outstanding performances in the Parliament. Prime Point Srinivasan,
the Founder and Chairman of Prime Point Foundation, said these awards are based
on comprehensive performance, with nominees selected by a distinguished Jury
Committee chaired by Arjun Ram Meghwal, Minister of State for Law and
Parliamentary Affairs, and T. S. Krishnamurthy, Former Chief Election
Commissioner of India. The performance data was sourced from the Lok Sabha and
Rajya Sabha websites, as well as from the PRS Legislative Research.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Sansad Ratna Awards Committee,
led by Priyadharshni Rahul, Trustee Secretary of Prime Point Foundation and the
Chairman of Sansad Ratna Awards Committee, announced the recipients for the
Sansad Maha Ratna Awards for the entire 17th Lok Sabha. These include NK
Premachandran (RSP, Kerala), Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury (Indian National Congress,
West Bengal), Bidyut Baran Mahato (BJP, Jharkhand), and Dr. Heena Vijayakumar
Gavit (BJP, Maharashtra). According to the awards committee, these four
parliamentarians have demonstrated unwavering consistency in debates, private
members' bills, and questions since the inception of the 17th Lok Sabha.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Sansad Maha Ratna Awards were not previously conferred upon
Parliamentary committees. But starting
from the current 17th Lok Sabha, three Standing Committees have been included
in </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">the Sansad Maha Ratna Awards. The Agriculture
Committee chaired by P C Gaddi Gowdar (BJP, Karnataka), the Finance Committee chaired
by Jayant Sinha (BJP, Jharkhand), and the Transport and Tourism Committee presently chaired by Vijayasai
Reddy (YSR Congress, Andhra Pradesh) and formerly chaired by T G Venkatesh
(BJP, Andhra Pradesh) have been
nominated for their consistent contributions based on sittings and the reports
presented by them, relying on the data commensurate with the term of 17<sup>th</sup>
Lok Sabha. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">“Recognising the continued consistent top performance of Supriya Sule
(NCP, Maharashtra), Shrirang Appa Barne (Shiv Sena, Maharashtra), and
Bhartruhari Mahtab (BJD, Odisha), the Sansad Maha Ratna Awardees of the
previous 16th Lok Sabha, the Jury
Committee has decided to honour them for their 'Exemplary Performance'
in the 17th Lok Sabha as well”, said Priyadharshni Rahul.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The prestigious awards are scheduled to be presented at a grand ceremony
on February 17, 2024, in Delhi, marking the 14th edition of the event. Prime
Point Foundation instituted these honours at the instance of Dr. Abdul Kalam,
former President of India, who inaugurated the first award event in 2010 in
Chennai. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sansad Ratna Awards are presented annually to the top performing
Parliamentarians based on their performance, while Sansad Maha Ratna awards are
presented once in five years for the consistency of performance during the term
of the Lok Sabha. Till March 2023, 106 Sansad Ratna Awards have been presented
through 13 award ceremonies making it the only award presented by any civil
society at a global level to the best-performing Parliamentarians.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ends</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1642003194605854324.post-64672585601774024152023-04-08T14:39:00.000+05:302023-04-08T14:39:08.921+05:3013th Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2023 crosses 100th Award mark - 8 Lok Sabha Members, 5 Rajya Sabha Members, 2 Committees and one veteran were honoured<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGU356vJST1iIy9FRIPQTcIsiUqcqLHHnVscnlO6RKJG0XnkOm6zxrowV-gMyGVZsDjh2HWXDsFrAXpvz_6dNU6Iicn12OJGkIzqPqap2T9FbDoNXJqmbCgGzUqAlqxXxCDy-_G4hjM-ijiVjKtZLXyiys7tmox7moIK-ZVSqNougFQxETc7pzObEV-Q/s800/12%20x%2010%20Size%20Banner.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="Prime Point Foundation' presents Sansad Ratna Awards 2023 during the 13th Edition and crosses 100th Award mark" border="0" data-original-height="668" data-original-width="800" height="534" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGU356vJST1iIy9FRIPQTcIsiUqcqLHHnVscnlO6RKJG0XnkOm6zxrowV-gMyGVZsDjh2HWXDsFrAXpvz_6dNU6Iicn12OJGkIzqPqap2T9FbDoNXJqmbCgGzUqAlqxXxCDy-_G4hjM-ijiVjKtZLXyiys7tmox7moIK-ZVSqNougFQxETc7pzObEV-Q/w640-h534/12%20x%2010%20Size%20Banner.jpg" title="Prime Point Foundation' presents Sansad Ratna Awards 2023 during the 13th Edition and crosses 100th Award mark" width="640" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">13th Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2023 was held at New Maharashtra Sadan, Delhi on Saturday, 25th March 2023. <br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Shri Bandaru Dattatreya (Hon'ble Governor of Haryana) and Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal (Hon'ble MoS, Parliamentary Affairs) were the Chief Guests.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">8 Lok Sabha Members, 5 Rajya Sabha Members and 2 Departmentally Related Standing Committees were honoured with Sansad Ratna Awards. One Veteran leader was honoured with 'Dr APJ Abdul kalam Lifetime Achievement Award'. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">March 2023 (193rd( edition of our eMagazine PreSense </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">covers the 13th Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2023. During this event, we have crossed the 100th Award mark. With this, Sansad Ratna Award moves from the first Phase to the Second Phase. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This edition may be downloaded from the link</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.prpoint.com/ezine/presense0323.pdf">https://www.prpoint.com/ezine/presense0323.pdf</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The full proceedings of the event may be watched from this link.</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4n3vdv9aUvA" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In the morning session, a Panel discussion was held on "Role of women leaders in the nation building", Dr Heena Gavit MP, Chairman of Standing Committee on Women Empowerment chaired the Sesion. Dr Ameeta Mulla Wattal (Chairman, DLF Foundation - Education) and Dr Ashok Pandey, Director, Alhcon Group of Schools were the panelists. Ms Priyadharshni Rahul, Editor of PreSense moderated the discussion. Please watch the entire proceedings.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rYl5lIqiaeE" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1642003194605854324.post-46226315866938584192023-03-31T09:57:00.004+05:302023-03-31T09:57:54.785+05:30Three eBooks launched by Prime Point Foundation during the Sansad Ratna Award function 2023<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkrWQ1fBswqtn1YBdQJ1LAgUFuySGluEKto_546Bpoj7RDCx39TYA2rnM_nDWtMN19cf1KD3YPIpvrb81Ik4bg7CkJaxSrEIqoWZ1wvqftoUoF6803xi7rDPD4cQPl00FqA4ytqAQ5aEvEEwm0HrK5WoMgNH6yrZxXBmUR9TGcvm5Q6cmS_ROhhXUZFA/s7200/E%20Book.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Three eBooks launched during 13th Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2023 event" border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="7200" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkrWQ1fBswqtn1YBdQJ1LAgUFuySGluEKto_546Bpoj7RDCx39TYA2rnM_nDWtMN19cf1KD3YPIpvrb81Ik4bg7CkJaxSrEIqoWZ1wvqftoUoF6803xi7rDPD4cQPl00FqA4ytqAQ5aEvEEwm0HrK5WoMgNH6yrZxXBmUR9TGcvm5Q6cmS_ROhhXUZFA/w640-h240/E%20Book.JPG" title="Three eBooks launched during 13th Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2023 event" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hon'ble Governor of Haryana Shri Badaru Dattatreya released the following eBooks on 25th March 2023 at New Maharashtra Sadan Delhi during the 13th edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2023. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIuofMFhsFDCeIwrDr0-x4dk4qlPSHNFv1_sBg9LmVVXMfTfVrb1iUxo71g7KNm-eFiZXwyHQmJW2jdTPesL6C8MU1SfBnXVYAKbdtfhV2HrO1jqokpPgjx4C-xfZLJQpNaFsvGUEXXOq70MYwxLmhsxofHbZNplR2BIpk-pLvsWZeyApCxfrX4VJo/s4898/IMG_1062.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Three eBooks launched by Prime Point Foundation during the Sansad Ratna Award function 2023" border="0" data-original-height="3265" data-original-width="4898" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIuofMFhsFDCeIwrDr0-x4dk4qlPSHNFv1_sBg9LmVVXMfTfVrb1iUxo71g7KNm-eFiZXwyHQmJW2jdTPesL6C8MU1SfBnXVYAKbdtfhV2HrO1jqokpPgjx4C-xfZLJQpNaFsvGUEXXOq70MYwxLmhsxofHbZNplR2BIpk-pLvsWZeyApCxfrX4VJo/w640-h426/IMG_1062.jpg" title="Three eBooks launched by Prime Point Foundation during the Sansad Ratna Award function 2023" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />The three eBooks can be downloaded from the following links:</span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">1. Parliamentary Speeches of Dr Heena Vijayakumar Gavit, Hon'ble Member of Parliament during the 16th Lok Sabha. <a href="http://www.prpoint.com/publication/drheenagavit.pdf" target="_blank">Download</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">2. Digest of Editorials published in the eMagazine PreSense during the year 2022. <a href="https://www.prpoint.com/publication/editorials2022.pdf" target="_blank">Download</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">3. Digest of Cover Stories published in the eMagazine PreSense during the year 2022. <a href="http://www.prpoint.com/publication/coverstories2022.pdf" target="_blank">Download</a></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1642003194605854324.post-37089431959856063292023-02-22T15:13:00.002+05:302023-02-22T15:13:19.109+05:30Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets Sansad Ratna Awardees 2023<p> </p>
<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieQaS5_t6Vb_KjIHxjX3ef-4ZikK9ZJvproiPdxzjkxSBgdVlDOgQo9Y8_R3XYXY7l0kqDYWkrr6elVLuytx_bG6tWCL7jM-FIRHCbbbfDR6_fyK4HTWWtCq01_pw-siWIEWDdF1lL4d-KiUKsG0XmqaUvfHfPb0GUPC4YAqNgmtA0JxyosSj6SLlOSw/s2721/PM%20Tweet%2022%20feb%202023.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets Sansad Ratna Awardees 2023" border="0" data-original-height="2721" data-original-width="1423" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieQaS5_t6Vb_KjIHxjX3ef-4ZikK9ZJvproiPdxzjkxSBgdVlDOgQo9Y8_R3XYXY7l0kqDYWkrr6elVLuytx_bG6tWCL7jM-FIRHCbbbfDR6_fyK4HTWWtCq01_pw-siWIEWDdF1lL4d-KiUKsG0XmqaUvfHfPb0GUPC4YAqNgmtA0JxyosSj6SLlOSw/w334-h640/PM%20Tweet%2022%20feb%202023.jpg" title="Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets Sansad Ratna Awardees 2023" width="334" /></a></p><p></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Congratulations to the MP colleagues who will be conferred the Sansad Ratna Awards. May they keep enriching parliamentary proceedings with their rich insights. <a href="https://t.co/IqMZmLfC1l">https://t.co/IqMZmLfC1l</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: justify;">— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) <a href="https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status/1628238736747286528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2023</a></div></span></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1642003194605854324.post-69246116731754551552023-02-20T14:11:00.001+05:302023-02-20T14:22:23.277+05:3013th Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2023 - Awardees list - Press Release<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiQSGDmCVdH6ioosbOtl0v_cDLP5cy65JzVWLH9CmtVFA-HEV3A1LGzmn2Wv_o6pdGoq_m12bC_qdjQODuM0ukZPVdDgW_ARgOszodzJbNYdFEj0Ngl9GyrKHeb2XMziigu1SoXbqa8NwEbDDVyW_Z6FcsNPXpVo6ca7ufkOx_VzQO7L63BOfotzWZ/s956/oress%20release%20image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="13th Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2023 - Awardees list - Press Release" border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="956" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiQSGDmCVdH6ioosbOtl0v_cDLP5cy65JzVWLH9CmtVFA-HEV3A1LGzmn2Wv_o6pdGoq_m12bC_qdjQODuM0ukZPVdDgW_ARgOszodzJbNYdFEj0Ngl9GyrKHeb2XMziigu1SoXbqa8NwEbDDVyW_Z6FcsNPXpVo6ca7ufkOx_VzQO7L63BOfotzWZ/w640-h314/oress%20release%20image.jpg" title="13th Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2023 - Awardees list - Press Release" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">Press Release</b></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Sansad Ratna Awardees for 2023</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>13 MPs, Two Parliamentary Committees and One Veteran to be Honoured</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">New Delhi, 20th Feb 2023: The Jury Committee of eminent Parliamentarians and civil society, chaired by Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal (Hon’ble MoS, Parliamentary Affairs) and Co-Chaired by Shri T S Krishnamurthy (Former Chief Election Commissioner of India) has nominated eight MPs from Lok Sabha and five from Rajya Sabha for the Sansad Ratna Awards 2023. In addition, two Departmentally Related Standing Committees (DRSC) and a veteran and distinguished leader has also been nominated under the special awards category. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Lok Sabha</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Jury Committee has nominated (1) Shri Bidyut Baran Mahato (BJP, Jharkhand), (2) Dr. Sukanta Majumdar (BJP, West Bengal), (3) Shri Kuldeep Rai Sharma (INC, Andaman Nicobar Islands), (4) Dr Heena Vijayakumar Gavit (BJP, Maharashtra), (5) Shri Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury (INC, West Bengal), (6) Shri Gopal Chinayya Shetty (BJP, Maharashtra), (7) Shri Sudhir Gupta (BJP, Madhya Pradesh) , and (8) Dr. Amol Ramsing Kolhe (NCP, Maharashtra) for ‘Sansad Ratna Awards 2023’ for their performance in the 17th Lok Sabha under various categories. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">These nominations are based on the cumulative performance in Questions, private members bills and initiated debates of the members from the beginning of 17th Lok Sabha until the end of Winter Session 2022 . The performance data of the members has been sourced from data provided by PRS India, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha Secretariat.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Rajya Sabha</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dr. John Brittas (CPI-M, Kerala), Dr. Manoj Kumar Jha (RJD, Bihar), Smt. Fauzia Tahseen Ahmed Khan (NCP, Maharashtra) have been nominated for their performances in Rajya Sabha in 2022 under the ‘Sitting Members’ category. Shri Vishambhar Prasad Nishad (Samajwadi Party, UP) and Smt. Chhaya Verma (INC, Chhattisgarh) have been nominated for the Award under the ‘Rajya Sabha Members Retired in 2022’ category for their outstanding performance during their full term in Rajya Sabha. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Standing Committees</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Departmentally Related Standing Committees (DRSC) in Parliament have been performing exceedingly well and silently contributing their lot to parliamentary democracy. The Prime Point Foundation and eMagazine PreSense are honouring the Standing committees since the last six years, based on the subjects selected, sittings and reports presented. The Jury Committee has selected this time one Lok Sabha Committee and one Rajya Sabha Committee for the Award. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Finance Committee (Lok Sabha Committee - Chairman – Shri Jayant Sinha, BJP, Jharkhand) and Transport, Tourism and Culture Committee (Rajya Sabha Committee - Chairman – Shri V. Vijayasai Reddy, YSR Congress, Andhra Pradesh) are nominated for Awards for their outstanding cumulative performance from the beginning of the 17th Lok Sabha until the end of Winter Session of 2022.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Lifetime Achievement Award</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In 2022, the Prime Point Foundation and PreSense introduced a new category “Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Lifetime Achievement Award” to honour veteran leaders for their contribution to Indian politics, the society and the people. The Jury Committee has nominated Shri T K Rangarajan, (Former Rajya Sabha MP for two terms and a Senior CPIM Leader) for the Award. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">All the above Awards will be presented on 25th March 2023 at New Delhi. These Awards are being presented on behalf of the Civil Society.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>About Sansad Ratna Award</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Sansad Ratna Awards were instituted at the suggestion of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam to honour top performing Parliamentarians. He himself launched the first edition of the Award function in 2010 at Chennai. Till now, 90 top performing Parliamentarians have been honoured and all of them have received the awards in person. The 13th Edition of the award function will be held on Saturday, 25th March 2023 at New Delhi. The 13th Edition will be making history as it crosses the century of awards mark. Mr. K. Srinivasan is the Founder Chairman and Ms. Priyadharshni Rahul is the President of the Sansad Ratna Awards Committee. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">*****</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Note to Editors: For further details, please contact: K. Srinivasan (Founder and Chairman, Prime Point Foundation and Sansad Ratna Awards Committee – +91 91766 50273 @ Chennai) or </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Priyadarshini Rahul (Advocate Supreme Court, Trustee Secretary, Prime Point Foundation and President, Sansad Ratna Awards Committee - +91 99712 48869 @ Delhi)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The complete list of awardees, including the Awards category and the list6 of Jury Committee Members is annexed. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://www.sansadratna.in">www.sansadratna.in</a> | <a href="mailto:sansadratna@gmail.com">sansadratna@gmail.com</a> </span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1642003194605854324.post-24068987892570405282022-03-28T14:45:00.006+05:302022-12-03T15:43:59.738+05:30Panel Discussion on "Women Empowerment" and "New Normal Education System" during Sansadratna Award 2022 event<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">During the post lunch session of Sansad Ratna Awards 2022 function, two panel discussions were held.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Panel Discussion 1</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZnIZ1ExNsH8gP4dQW-_FUTeiasElY6NgujfSrKmi1R_jKP3CUMdGw0PL4WBIZpOjgM2dg19ggJFbS0RlDNk-kuO2YYLmHUVBZb107Cj1hGTCna4g6veASiIfrB6PlZ8NWUHitb2BcT3rdG0EhTibzTiJzPh_BXdIOhhJL6PzmeAewgwKxfAcDtYg5/s4160/panel1.jpg" style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="Panel discussion on women empowerment" border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZnIZ1ExNsH8gP4dQW-_FUTeiasElY6NgujfSrKmi1R_jKP3CUMdGw0PL4WBIZpOjgM2dg19ggJFbS0RlDNk-kuO2YYLmHUVBZb107Cj1hGTCna4g6veASiIfrB6PlZ8NWUHitb2BcT3rdG0EhTibzTiJzPh_BXdIOhhJL6PzmeAewgwKxfAcDtYg5/w640-h480/panel1.jpg" title="Panel discussion on women empowerment" width="640" /></a></p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>(L to R: Priyadharshni Rahul, Gloria F Berbena. Srinivasa Prabhu and J Rajiv Choudhry)</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The first panel discussion was on “women empowerment for a progressive society. Ms Gloria F Berbena, Minister Counselor for Public Diplomacy, Embassy of USA was the Key Speaker. The other panelists were Shri Srinivasa Prabhu, Retired Joint Secretary, Lok Sabha and Shri J Rajiv Choudhry, Educationist. Smt. Priyadharshni Rahul, Editor of PreSense moderated the discussion. Please watch the interesting discussion.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The proceedings may be watched at</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://youtu.be/S2ae8LQ3j5s">https://youtu.be/S2ae8LQ3j5s</a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/S2ae8LQ3j5s" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Panel Discussion 2</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2SA3ld0n0jwI0v9u4mo2SDytHcuDpX9pYliQ-7sF1t1fwzPkra3NGJgQRc7RMy5RKcw0dFVST3z_0KACLlKgJwK4f3lmU_P3KiW4Q-Cz635wbuQ-NtbCxriiPpWfRGwLrRiuU4LFL-gG5asCFYfmIWkqfOZBD9ULkDQvpn1phailTbQiNbSPs4yYj/s4898/panel2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Panel discussion on ‘New Normal in Education System – Post Covid effect" border="0" data-original-height="3265" data-original-width="4898" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2SA3ld0n0jwI0v9u4mo2SDytHcuDpX9pYliQ-7sF1t1fwzPkra3NGJgQRc7RMy5RKcw0dFVST3z_0KACLlKgJwK4f3lmU_P3KiW4Q-Cz635wbuQ-NtbCxriiPpWfRGwLrRiuU4LFL-gG5asCFYfmIWkqfOZBD9ULkDQvpn1phailTbQiNbSPs4yYj/w640-h426/panel2.jpg" title="Panel discussion on ‘New Normal in Education System – Post Covid effect" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">(L to R: Tarun Nangia, Prof. Dr C Rajkumar and Vikas Arora)</span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">The second panel discussion was on ‘New Normal in Education System – Post Covid effect’. Prof. Dr C Rajkumar, Vice Chancellor, OP Jindal Global University and Shri Vikas Arya, Secretary, DAV Group of Schools, Chennai were the panelists. ‘Legally Speaking’ fame TV anchor Shri Tarun Nangia was the moderator. Please watch this interesting discussion.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Please watch the proceedings at</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://youtu.be/yaY8MsUzZsM">https://youtu.be/yaY8MsUzZsM</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yaY8MsUzZsM" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #741b47;">Please download the March 2022 edition of PreSense for the full report</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.prpoint.com/ezine/presense0322.pdf">https://www.prpoint.com/ezine/presense0322.pdf</a></span></div><div><br style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;" /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1642003194605854324.post-46881158002682806372022-03-28T12:43:00.017+05:302022-12-03T14:41:38.283+05:30Important speeches of Chief guests - Sansad Ratna Awards 2022 function<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-dgblTB1Gw4ilo2yDrn2RzkdIR8U7SAewlsDQVwMRTmw-qvvUoGCdp-iIU6mNh68QMfmm5hvuXXFix07YsmCi1cHRx3ZldmRShdP5u-THvniFgchgIF1GbELR3xfRJkyRG1sh7Wf6a0Piv7rifZhmDMB1jS240uztrtvQ-M4VrvYPTd-f-2737IKB/s3215/sushilchandra%20and%20meghwal1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="speeches of Sushil Chandra, Arjun Ram Meghwal and Prime Point Srinivasan in Sansad Ratna Award 2022 event" border="0" data-original-height="1242" data-original-width="3215" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-dgblTB1Gw4ilo2yDrn2RzkdIR8U7SAewlsDQVwMRTmw-qvvUoGCdp-iIU6mNh68QMfmm5hvuXXFix07YsmCi1cHRx3ZldmRShdP5u-THvniFgchgIF1GbELR3xfRJkyRG1sh7Wf6a0Piv7rifZhmDMB1jS240uztrtvQ-M4VrvYPTd-f-2737IKB/w640-h248/sushilchandra%20and%20meghwal1.jpg" title="speeches of Sushil Chandra, Arjun Ram Meghwal and Prime Point Srinivasan in Sansad Ratna Award 2022 event" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.sansadratna.in/2022/03/httpswww.sansadratna.in20220312th-edition-of-sansad-ratna-award-2022--function-at-delhi.html" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: verdana;" target="_blank">Sansad Ratna Awards 2022 function</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> was held on 26th March 2022 at New Maharashtra Sadan, New Delhi. Shri Sushil Chandfa, Chief Election Commissioner of India was the Chief Guest. Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal, MoS, Parliamentary Affairs and Chairman of Jury Committee presided over the function. K. Srinivasan, Founder and Chairman of Prime Point Foundation and Sansad Ratna Awards Committee gave a brief note about the Award. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Please listen to the speech of Shri Sushil Chandra</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://youtu.be/EHBv5UJaVec">https://youtu.be/EHBv5UJaVec</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EHBv5UJaVec" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Please listen to the Preasidential address of Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal</span></div><div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/DWDl7Uf_oP4"><span style="font-family: verdana;">https://youtu.be/DWDl7Uf_oP4</span></a></div></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DWDl7Uf_oP4" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Welcome by Priyadharshni Rahul and Introductory Remarks by Prime Point Srinivasan</span></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/Nf4aztxUwQM"><span style="font-family: verdana;">https://youtu.be/Nf4aztxUwQM</span></a></div></div><div><br /></div>
<span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Nf4aztxUwQM" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #741b47;">Please download the March 2022 edition of PreSense for the full report</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.prpoint.com/ezine/presense0322.pdf">https://www.prpoint.com/ezine/presense0322.pdf</a></span></div><div><br /></div></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1642003194605854324.post-27884893150171068862022-03-28T11:49:00.006+05:302022-12-03T14:40:13.480+05:30eBook on 'Women empowerment' launched during Sansad Ratna 2022 Award event<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhraCSBfcJJfEfmD3SO08vAc5xBVaiSsYm6nLCkoBNakimtvEK95AJy051wRoUI0UKNs0FGLoI5q021GxoGg-BLhbyt1Fni7kji2JF_Fp7q7_32pqlgbQEeAbB1l_9-YZURBN1D0UKDUCS1L2OA6UVGkeb-Bez5v1GrRnw8FzUTsXEVohXNd1qDhAMe/s4898/ebok%20launch.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="eBook on 'women empowerment' launched during Sansad Ratna Award 2022 event" border="0" data-original-height="3265" data-original-width="4898" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhraCSBfcJJfEfmD3SO08vAc5xBVaiSsYm6nLCkoBNakimtvEK95AJy051wRoUI0UKNs0FGLoI5q021GxoGg-BLhbyt1Fni7kji2JF_Fp7q7_32pqlgbQEeAbB1l_9-YZURBN1D0UKDUCS1L2OA6UVGkeb-Bez5v1GrRnw8FzUTsXEVohXNd1qDhAMe/w640-h426/ebok%20launch.JPG" title="eBook on 'women empowerment' launched during Sansad Ratna Award 2022 event" width="640" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /><b style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #c00000;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">(L
to R: Priyadharshni Rahul, Prime Point Srinivasan, Hansraj G Ahir, Dr Heena
Gavit, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Sushil Chandra, Dr M Veerappa Moily, NK Premachandran
MP and Shrirang Appa Barne MP)</span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 191.8pt; text-align: center;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #c00000; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The theme of this year’s event was “Women Empowerment”. Prime Point Foundation released an eBook titled <b><i>”Where Will and Way Meet”</i></b>. This book contains interviews of 13 women achievers narrating their experiences of how they braved the challenges. Priyadharshni Rahul, Editor of PreSense conceptualised and compiled this book. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This eBook was launched by Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal, Hon’ble MoS, Parliamentary Affairs. The first copy was received by Dr Heena Gavit MP, Hon’ble Chairman of Standing Committee on Women Empowerment and Shri Sushil Chandra, Hon’ble Chief Election Commissioner of India. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This eBook can be downloaded free of cost from the following link. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://www.prpoint.com/publication/women.pdf">http://www.prpoint.com/publication/women.pdf</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Please watch the video of the eBook launch</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://youtu.be/yPqQa1fhUis">https://youtu.be/yPqQa1fhUis</a> </span></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yPqQa1fhUis" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #741b47;">Please download the March 2022 edition of PreSense for the full report</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.prpoint.com/ezine/presense0322.pdf">https://www.prpoint.com/ezine/presense0322.pdf</a></span></div><div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1642003194605854324.post-2556839651914176252022-03-28T11:29:00.004+05:302022-12-03T14:39:21.300+05:30Sansad Ratna Awardees 2022 - Individuals and Standing Committees<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #002060;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sansad Ratna 2022 (Individual Awards)</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Individual
Awards for Lok Sabha are based on Questions raised, introduction of Private
Members Bills and participation in Debates (only initiated debates are
considered with self-efforts). For Rajya Sabha, their performance in 2021 on
the same parameters were considered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
a retired Rajya Sabha Member, his overall performance in his full term is taken
into account.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: verdana;">All the Awards were presented during the <a href="http://www.sansadratna.in/2022/03/httpswww.sansadratna.in20220312th-edition-of-sansad-ratna-award-2022--function-at-delhi.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sansad Ratna Award function</a> held at Delhi on 26th March 2022.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX7JcYrf6XdxHv8PJMZwRdIO41CVsdpLEXqGeu-FU2R7_d1wNltOjfuf4ztwJO3B_CALDx9Qes_GieMv0HUBqaq-gfpUt3nedhoOr49d3kcETwdJ1RcBx_XS5QRS5E0RzkHrO3tAqSbdXeu6nvCrtwZrMhDuiVQNKKVEt8NYkQGeAd87ah6JC3Yrma/s2886/awards%20individuals.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Sansad Ratna Awardees 2022 - Individuals and Standing Committees" border="0" data-original-height="2886" data-original-width="2310" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX7JcYrf6XdxHv8PJMZwRdIO41CVsdpLEXqGeu-FU2R7_d1wNltOjfuf4ztwJO3B_CALDx9Qes_GieMv0HUBqaq-gfpUt3nedhoOr49d3kcETwdJ1RcBx_XS5QRS5E0RzkHrO3tAqSbdXeu6nvCrtwZrMhDuiVQNKKVEt8NYkQGeAd87ah6JC3Yrma/w512-h640/awards%20individuals.jpg" title="Sansad Ratna Awardees 2022 - Individuals and Standing Committees" width="512" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #002060;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sansad Ratna 2022 (Departmentally Related
Standing Committees)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: verdana;">16
Lok Sabha Committees and 8 Rajya Sabha Committees are functioning as
Departmentally Related Standing Committees (DRSCs).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each Committee has 30 Members (20 from Lok
Sabha and 10 from Rajya Sabha), besides the Chairman, drawn from all the
parties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Members of the committees
are appointed by the Speaker of Lok Sabha or the Chairman of Rajya Sabha.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black;">The
Committees of the concerned Ministries consider Demands for Grants before they are
discussed and voted <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the
Parliament.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They also examine the Bills
referred to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They can also take up
any topic under the jurisdiction of the concerned Ministry and discuss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They present the reports to the
Parliament.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From 2018, Sansad Ratna
Awards are presented to the Committees based on the sittings, reports
presented.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpgkm28LdXjQC8khMo1kac1OooCI014ujadhLe6laJna3pZ6mJFVaA_iAS7qnUBOZ6xGa0wQU0riC05iDewcmlGTyPhH1lmxF8NZQISrHGhz2iG5TawO7P9KuKaCkutXRBERgGEtKUDnyjk8Rlibm3Ir9oeu_aZSyZGg54M05HFABg9BEz2Mt1oDZM/s2286/awards%20-%20committees.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Sansad Ratna Awardees 2022 - Individuals and Standing Committees" border="0" data-original-height="1992" data-original-width="2286" height="558" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpgkm28LdXjQC8khMo1kac1OooCI014ujadhLe6laJna3pZ6mJFVaA_iAS7qnUBOZ6xGa0wQU0riC05iDewcmlGTyPhH1lmxF8NZQISrHGhz2iG5TawO7P9KuKaCkutXRBERgGEtKUDnyjk8Rlibm3Ir9oeu_aZSyZGg54M05HFABg9BEz2Mt1oDZM/w640-h558/awards%20-%20committees.jpg" title="Sansad Ratna Awardees 2022 - Individuals and Standing Committees" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">Please download the March 2022 edition of PreSense for the full report</span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.prpoint.com/ezine/presense0322.pdf">https://www.prpoint.com/ezine/presense0322.pdf</a></span></div><div><br /></div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1642003194605854324.post-48496544209496795912022-03-28T07:42:00.013+05:302022-12-03T14:38:29.900+05:30Three MPs get 'Sansad Vishisht Ratna 2002 Award' for Superior performance during Sansad Ratna 2022 event<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">(For sustained continuing super performance after getting Sansad Maha Ratna and/or after becoming Jury Member – Special Award by the Chairman of the Sansad Ratna Committee)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrEdUhboL0iAHLHDClYeh1u7sKbnIecrAvqRY4RYY2_KPPvFjsLjIAw4Z5jG-3_wjSB51dS96scS2xGYVHcrZu2rSr_MdgBydccsgU2v1rjcTpDcYzoro8YLN1s3Vk5g8wcvTtD7c8YKsu460atS9hMg9q1MRhHVbwwX_LavQo9iN-W27nzc2tOI__/s1996/vishisht%20ratna.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Three MPs get 'Sansad Vishisht Ratna 2002 Award' doe Superior performance during Sansad Ratna 2022 event" border="0" data-original-height="984" data-original-width="1996" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrEdUhboL0iAHLHDClYeh1u7sKbnIecrAvqRY4RYY2_KPPvFjsLjIAw4Z5jG-3_wjSB51dS96scS2xGYVHcrZu2rSr_MdgBydccsgU2v1rjcTpDcYzoro8YLN1s3Vk5g8wcvTtD7c8YKsu460atS9hMg9q1MRhHVbwwX_LavQo9iN-W27nzc2tOI__/w640-h316/vishisht%20ratna.jpg" title="Three MPs get 'Sansad Vishisht Ratna 2002 Award' doe Superior performance during Sansad Ratna 2022 event" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Shri N K Premachandran MP (RSP, Kerla), Smt. Supriya Sule (NCP, Maharashtra) and Shri Shrirang Appa Barne (Shiv Sena, Maharashtra) were honoured with this Award.</span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Awards were presented during the Sansad Ratna Award 2022 event held at Delhi on 26th March 2022</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Please listen to the inspiring speech of Shri N K Premachandran</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4KIFXG9DYo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4KIFXG9DYo</a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/a4KIFXG9DYo" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #741b47;">Please download the March 2022 edition of PreSense for the full report</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.prpoint.com/ezine/presense0322.pdf">https://www.prpoint.com/ezine/presense0322.pdf</a></span></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1642003194605854324.post-85910216707063390572022-03-27T21:56:00.004+05:302022-12-03T14:37:41.503+05:30Dr M Veerappa Moily and Dr H V Hande honoured with Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Lifetime Achievement Award during <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Lifetime Achievement Award 2022 </b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">(This category is introduced for the first time this year to honour the veteran leaders.)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkUUPkA0JD_TZbEiLUW72CNrl_DoOWEcwac-tcjpRAQphufCunZntnXCteHVhKXDIRQdejiF5R8vwe8FTbeLSDXEsCgq5gwo_ozJoV85rjzAHQCO72PYNOH0i-lZoDGivkWb3mYmQlIhs4-JYTKUbK7p7WkySlR20ytCVNXZ5RVh8sPPcrunqzoxih/s4898/moily3.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Dr M Veerappa Moily receiving Lifetime Achievement Award during Sansad Ratna 2022 function" border="0" data-original-height="3265" data-original-width="4898" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkUUPkA0JD_TZbEiLUW72CNrl_DoOWEcwac-tcjpRAQphufCunZntnXCteHVhKXDIRQdejiF5R8vwe8FTbeLSDXEsCgq5gwo_ozJoV85rjzAHQCO72PYNOH0i-lZoDGivkWb3mYmQlIhs4-JYTKUbK7p7WkySlR20ytCVNXZ5RVh8sPPcrunqzoxih/w640-h426/moily3.JPG" title="Dr M Veerappa Moily receiving Lifetime Achievement Award during Sansad Ratna 2022 function" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dr M Veerappa Moily, Former Chief Minister of Karnataka and Former Union Minister received the Lifetime Achievement Award 2022. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Shri Sushil Chandra (Chief Election Commissioner of India), Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal (Hon’ble Mos Parliamentary Affairs) presented the Awards. Shri Hansraj Ahir, Former MoS Home Affairs and Patron of Sansad Ratna Awards Committee (first from left) is looking on. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dr Veerappa Moily is a Senior leader of Indian National Congress.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Please listen to the informative acceptance speech by Dr Veerappa Moily.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://youtu.be/wUtRZvqzcv4">https://youtu.be/wUtRZvqzcv4</a> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wUtRZvqzcv4" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">Dr H V Hande (95), Former Health Minister of Tamil Nadu and six times Legislator could not be present during the event due to his age. On behalf of Dr Hande, the award was received by Shri Sridhar Raj, General Secretary of Sansad Ratna Awards Committee. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">On 28th March 2022, the Award was presented to Dr Hande at his residence at Chennai by the office bearers of Sansad Ratna Committee in the presence of political leaders of different parties, including Shri K Annamalai, President of BJP Tamil Nadu. Dr Hande is a Senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht6kP3b5r0N2wzyAM4JUZfi82PenQOYg2YJwEs007LpS3s-Nudy3WM9iCuoKSRneqn-BWSAk8PZUzrr-edQ_1kwb8rmuurEsiEAV-25udVYJ2TqIkH1lyyBjfUwzMaRaKv2Xyw6ZuItUKzicUoLuYVCsGnrOjQHtXaogGbHa0W3HVS9Gn798RhdgW6/s1080/hande2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Dr H V Hande being presented with Lifetime Achievement Awartd at his Chennai residence" border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1080" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht6kP3b5r0N2wzyAM4JUZfi82PenQOYg2YJwEs007LpS3s-Nudy3WM9iCuoKSRneqn-BWSAk8PZUzrr-edQ_1kwb8rmuurEsiEAV-25udVYJ2TqIkH1lyyBjfUwzMaRaKv2Xyw6ZuItUKzicUoLuYVCsGnrOjQHtXaogGbHa0W3HVS9Gn798RhdgW6/w640-h426/hande2.jpg" title="Dr H V Hande being presented with Lifetime Achievement Awartd at his Chennai residence" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #741b47;">Please download the March 2022 edition of PreSense for the full report</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.prpoint.com/ezine/presense0322.pdf">https://www.prpoint.com/ezine/presense0322.pdf</a></span></div><div><br /></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1642003194605854324.post-28140761731634155212022-03-27T20:03:00.008+05:302022-12-03T14:36:50.615+05:3012th Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards Function - March 2022 - A Brief Report<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRv71jcqF9zxFBID1pDF8XbPCpWaAnsvxb8heLsqNPUONIj8MtLvEp3GIeKFSbtywYnw9VwyQp4WSMvT1riuNAlvTTsEyY-HwV1WeySNResK4jlPPjQpL7wRGYcVlgQo7SCMT8Ho32AcbrQB1AtWClPdt69Yy2fidqLloZ2CFqRDyzXmcwaMyWWa98/s4898/banner%20of%20awardees.JPG" style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="12th edition of Sansad Ratna Awards - March 2022" border="0" data-original-height="3265" data-original-width="4898" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRv71jcqF9zxFBID1pDF8XbPCpWaAnsvxb8heLsqNPUONIj8MtLvEp3GIeKFSbtywYnw9VwyQp4WSMvT1riuNAlvTTsEyY-HwV1WeySNResK4jlPPjQpL7wRGYcVlgQo7SCMT8Ho32AcbrQB1AtWClPdt69Yy2fidqLloZ2CFqRDyzXmcwaMyWWa98/w640-h426/banner%20of%20awardees.JPG" title="12th edition of Sansad Ratna Awards - March 2022" width="640" /></a></p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">12th Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards presentation ceremony was held on Saturday, 26th March 2022 at New Maharashtra Sadan, New Delhi. Shri Sushil Chandra, Hon’ble Chief Election Commissioner of India and Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal, Hon’ble MoS Parliamentary Affairs and Chairman of Jury Committee presented the Awards. 9 Members of Parliament. 4 Standing Committee and 2 Veteran Leaders received the Awards. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">These Awards are presented on behalf of the Civil Society. An eminent Jury Committee chaired by Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal (Hon’ble MoS Parliamentary Affairs) and Shri T S Krishnamurthy (Former Chief Election Commissioner of India) selected the Awardees based on the performance data provided by PRS India, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha websites. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This initiative was started by Prime Point Foundation and eMagazine PreSense in 2009 on the suggestion of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam to honour the top performing Parliamentarians. Till 2022, 86 Awards have been presented and all the Awardees have received the Awards in person. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Award Winners 2022</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBPpkAI0YgIIRowTYEPCX_UI1HynVNKoxufzimFt9T0A5EuSfuf4obxMIGiIZJERX-TC4LMBRQe7gpIpLxdnXxn_xvm59IMYDuO41to1rkNhgFaJ32yN_DEUP4nNiX0uxhs1vijWShUPBjto0bhPseRPJhCniU_l75xzODiGtSyU4gC5Fhq26-oJo8/s4898/awaes%20winners.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="12th Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards Function - March 2022 - Awardees" border="0" data-original-height="3265" data-original-width="4898" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBPpkAI0YgIIRowTYEPCX_UI1HynVNKoxufzimFt9T0A5EuSfuf4obxMIGiIZJERX-TC4LMBRQe7gpIpLxdnXxn_xvm59IMYDuO41to1rkNhgFaJ32yN_DEUP4nNiX0uxhs1vijWShUPBjto0bhPseRPJhCniU_l75xzODiGtSyU4gC5Fhq26-oJo8/w640-h426/awaes%20winners.JPG" title="12th Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards Function - March 2022 - Awardees" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><p style="text-align: justify;">Please watch the Presentation Ceremony</p></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://youtu.be/fcfvcvBd7MI">https://youtu.be/fcfvcvBd7MI</a></span></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fcfvcvBd7MI" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Sponsors and supporting partners for this event</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpat_NzhlWHJZBvize_nSt7T9CrCrHw1aDfNTJmCtXzWKlkslovLTR57yoJJeJd5yqhcRE1Hh7-XIoPisLtRZEtmrUIRAF5zDXY414zYwHgxXVaLvbAunzapyLezr9FoKXuD0QiH0rb9oTH9pBP_qnxkI6HUSFcZrFdt54yf3fPxGntgKW63znpmgU/s2004/sponsors.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Sansad Ratna Awards 2022 sponsors" border="0" data-original-height="828" data-original-width="2004" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpat_NzhlWHJZBvize_nSt7T9CrCrHw1aDfNTJmCtXzWKlkslovLTR57yoJJeJd5yqhcRE1Hh7-XIoPisLtRZEtmrUIRAF5zDXY414zYwHgxXVaLvbAunzapyLezr9FoKXuD0QiH0rb9oTH9pBP_qnxkI6HUSFcZrFdt54yf3fPxGntgKW63znpmgU/w640-h264/sponsors.jpg" title="Sansad Ratna Awards 2022 sponsors" width="640" /></a></div><br /><b>Sansad Ratna organising Team 2022</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtudbdYkLZVjQCPitFZ_8IfGNLI22zjQjwYkmz6nRpI6mzXiUigqXY5HhtuCwFnD_5-P3ACXcDdDWf-gGcsGY0A0gFhvm4UwD7NmUZldHUSXuIf7NE2F6t61WHVkNBd-9e7OtdpivzVJq5or2UUUe3JnW7jroJDjsuHXYHRLUTYymZH4lBFJjqeBuY/s4898/our%20team17.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Sansad RAtna Team 2022" border="0" data-original-height="3265" data-original-width="4898" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtudbdYkLZVjQCPitFZ_8IfGNLI22zjQjwYkmz6nRpI6mzXiUigqXY5HhtuCwFnD_5-P3ACXcDdDWf-gGcsGY0A0gFhvm4UwD7NmUZldHUSXuIf7NE2F6t61WHVkNBd-9e7OtdpivzVJq5or2UUUe3JnW7jroJDjsuHXYHRLUTYymZH4lBFJjqeBuY/w640-h426/our%20team17.JPG" title="Sansad RAtna Team 2022" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #741b47;">Please download the March 2022 edition of PreSense for the full report</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.prpoint.com/ezine/presense0322.pdf">https://www.prpoint.com/ezine/presense0322.pdf</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1642003194605854324.post-52166354926632072492022-02-22T22:21:00.003+05:302022-02-22T22:21:56.713+05:30Sansad Ratna Awards 2022 announced - Press Release <p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidm6JD4Uy0pWdiEuAM0dXi5zp6yhy10S5ZBwD9u-dNy04onn4k456OKzoGcNSwGWrGnbv7NcPqy5a0RpQZKFs9mENwP-DiKMYW6YhoRrPgAjxyP1poIEZXHbO6doVxUW-KyKNSrag3ZQXkTGsSzdKdh3j4Wa1PiHTvEYRJZ5POAIMsSkzn-lgudOVc=s800" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="Sansad Ratna Awards 2022 announced" border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidm6JD4Uy0pWdiEuAM0dXi5zp6yhy10S5ZBwD9u-dNy04onn4k456OKzoGcNSwGWrGnbv7NcPqy5a0RpQZKFs9mENwP-DiKMYW6YhoRrPgAjxyP1poIEZXHbO6doVxUW-KyKNSrag3ZQXkTGsSzdKdh3j4Wa1PiHTvEYRJZ5POAIMsSkzn-lgudOVc=w640-h320" title="Sansad Ratna Awards 2022 announced" width="640" /></a></p><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></o:p></span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB">Press Release</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Sansad Ratna Awardees for 2022
Announced</span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: verdana;">11 MPs, Four Parliamentary
Committees and Two Veterans </span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: verdana;">to be Honoured</span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB">New Delhi, 22<sup>nd</sup> Feb 2022: The<b> </b></span><span style="color: black;">Jury Committee<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of eminent Parliamentarians and civil
society, chaired by Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal (Hon’ble MoS, Parliamentary Affairs)
and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Co-Chaired by Shri T S
Krishnamurthy (Former Chief Election Commissioner of India) has nominated<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>eight<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>three MPs respectively from
both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for the
Sansad Ratna Awards 2022.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition<b>,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>four<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Standing Committees and two<b> </b>veteran leaders have also been
nominated<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for special awards. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lok
Sabha</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Smt.
Supriya Sule (NCP, Maharashtra), Shri N K Premachandran (RSP, Kerala) and Shri
Shrirang Appa Barne (Shiv Sena, Maharashtra) have been nominated for ‘Sansad
Vishisht Ratna’ Award for their sustained outstanding performance.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Shri </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Bidyut
Baran Mahato (BJP, Jharkhand), Shri Kuldeep Rai Sharma (INC, Andaman &
Nicobar Islands), Dr Heena Vijayakumar Gavit (BJP, Maharashtra), Saugata Roy
(AITMC, West Bengal), Shri Sudhir Gupta (BJP, Madhya Pradesh) have been
nominated for ‘Sansad Ratna Awards 2022’ for their performance in the 17<sup>th</sup>
Lok Sabha under various categories. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">According to K. Srinivasan, Founder
Chairman of Prime Point Foundation and Sansad Ratna Awards Committee the
nominations<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>have been made based on the
cumulative<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>performance of the members from
the beginning of 17<sup>th</sup> Lok Sabha till the end of Winter Session
2021.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said the nomination<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was based on the data provided by PRS India.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Rajya Sabha<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dr.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Amar Patnaik (BJD, Odisha) and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dr.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fauzia Tahseen Ahmed Khan
(NCP, Maharashtra have been nominated for their performance in Rajya Sabha in
2021 under ‘Sitting Members’ category’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Shri K K Ragesh (CPIM, Kerala) is nominated<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for the Award under the ‘Retired Members in
2021’ category for his outstanding performance during his full term in Rajya
Sabha.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Standing Committees<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Departmentally Related Standing
Committees (DRSC) in Parliament are performing exceedingly well and silently
and contribute a lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prime Point
Foundation and eMagazine PreSense have been honouring the Standing committees
since the last<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>five years, based on the
subjects selected, sittings and reports presented.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Jury Committee has selected<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>three Lok Sabha Committees and one Rajya
Sabha Committee for the Award.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(1)
Agriculture </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">committee (Chairman: Shri P C Gaddi
Goudar, BJP, Karnataka), (2) Finance Committee (Chairman – Shri Jayant Sinha,
BJP, Jharkhand), (3) Labour Committee (Chairman – Shri Bhartruhari Mahtab, BJD,
Odisha) and (4) Education Committee (Chairman – Dr Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, BJP,
Maharashtra) are nominated for Awards for their outstanding cumulative
performance from the beginning of the 17</span><sup style="font-family: verdana;">th</sup><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Lok Sabha till the end of
Winter Session 2021.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Agriculture,
Finance and Labour are Lok Sabha Committees and Education is the Rajya Sabha
Committee.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lifetime Achievement Award<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">From this year, Prime Point Foundation
and PreSense will be introducing a new category to honour the veteran leaders
for their contribution to Indian politics and people of India. The<b> </b>Jury
Committee has nominated Dr HV Hande (Age 94 - Senior BJP leader, Tamil Nadu)
and Dr <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>M.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Veerappa Moily (Age 82 - Senior Congress
leader, Karnataka) for this award.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">About Sansad Ratna Award<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sansad Ratna Award was instituted on
the suggestion of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam to honour the top performing
Parliamentarians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first award
function was held in 2010 at Chennai and Dr Abdul Kalam himself launched the
initiative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Till now, 75 top performing
Parliamentarians have been honoured.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>12<sup>th</sup>
Edition of Award function will be held on Saturday, 26<sup>th</sup> March 2022
at Delhi.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">*****<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Press Released issued by Priyadharshni
Rahul, President of Sansad Ratna Awards Committee.</span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://www.sansadratna.in/"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">www.sansadratna.in</span></i></a><i><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"> |<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><a href="mailto:sansadratna@gmail.com"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">sansadratna@gmail.com</span></i></a><i><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
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of select Parliamentary speeches of outstanding MPs released<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Media
should highlight positive aspects of developments in the country – Dr M
Veerappa Moily<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">New Delhi, July 5, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In a virtual meeting <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>organized
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by Prime Point Foundation to mark their
21<sup>st</sup> Anniversary, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>two <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>eBooks of select <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>speeches of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>former MPs Dr S K Karventhan and S S Ramasubbu,
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>were released by former MOS Home Hansraj
Ahir and former Karnataka Chief Minister Dr Veerappa Moily, who was also a
union minister of important portfolios in the Congress government. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Arjun Ram Meghwal, MoS Parliamentary Affairs
was also present. Dr S K Kharventhan and S S Ramasubbu were the outstanding
Parliamentarians and recipients of Sansad Ratna Awards of 14<sup>th</sup> and
15<sup>th</sup> Lok Sabha respectively.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dr Veerappa Moily appealed to Media<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and MPs <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>highlight the positive aspects of developments
in the country that made people feel secure and safe. In<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>this context, he said the Prime Point Foundation
was doing yeoman service by recognizing the good work done by MPs and awarding
them the Sansad Ratna awards for their good performance in Parliament,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr Moily appreciated the
work of both MPs Karventhan and Ramasubbu,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>who had done great work for their constituencies and the e books would
serve as role models for the young generation of MPs and political science
students. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mr Hansraj Ahir, while releasing the ebook containing the speeches
of Dr Kharventhan , said the foundation had done great work by bringing out and
highlighting the works of MPs in the House. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said that Parliament provided ample
opportunities for any MP to raise the constituency issues and get them
resolved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Arjun Ram Meghwal, in whose presence these ebooks were released
suggested that Prime Point Foundation can bring out a volume containing the
select speeches of 75 great leaders from the first Lok Sabha till the current
one, by 15<sup>th</sup> August 2022,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to
mark the celebration of 75<sup>th</sup> Independence Day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">K. Srinivasan, Founder Chairman of Prime Point Foundation agreed
to the suggestion of Arjun Ram Meghwal and also said that they would bring out
8 ebooks containing the select Parliamentary speeches of Anandrao Adsul (Shiv
Sena), Hansraj Ahir (BJP), Arjun Ram Meghwal (BJP), Bhartruhari Mahtab (BJD),
Shrirang Appa Barne (Shiv Sena), Supriya Sule (NCP), Dr Veerappa Moily (Cong)
and N K Premachandran (RSP) next month on the Independence Day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All these 8 Parliamentarians are Sansad Ratna
Awardees for their outstanding performance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sansad
Ratna Awards are presented to top performing Parliamentarians every year after
the Budget Session, based on the performance data provided by PRS India and Lok
Sabha Secretariat. The Award was instituted on the suggestion given by Dr APJ
Abdul Kalam, who himself launched the first Award event in May 2010. Till
2021, 75 Awards have been presented. The awardees are selected by a Jury
committee of eminent Parliamentarians through a transparent process.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The
Jury Committee for the current 17th Lok Sabha is headed by Shri Arjun Ram
Meghwal (MoS, Parliamentary Affairs) with Shri N K Premachandran (Kerala) and
Shri Shrirang Appa Barne (Maharashtra) as members. The Jury Committee
Members themselves are the outstanding Parliamentarians and Sansad Ratna
Awardees.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sansad
Ratna Awards and Next Gen Political Leaders are the initiatives of Prime Point
Foundation to honour the outstanding Parliamentarians and also to develop
future political leader.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The
ebooks can be downloaded from <a href="http://www.sansadratna.in/">www.sansadratna.in</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dr S K
Kharventhan : <a href="http://www.prpoint.com/publication/skk14.pdf">http://www.prpoint.com/publication/skk14.pdf</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">S S
Ramasubbu : <a href="http://www.prpoint.com/publication/ssr15.pdf">http://www.prpoint.com/publication/ssr15.pdf</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://www.primepointfoundation.in/" style="background-color: white;">w.primepointfoundation.in</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">| </span><a href="http://www.sansadratna.in/" style="background-color: white;">www.sansadratna.in</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">|</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="mailto:prpoint@gmail.com" style="background-color: white;">prpoint@gmail.com</a></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1642003194605854324.post-64579797915670647922021-07-05T09:07:00.000+05:302021-07-05T09:07:17.346+05:30eBooks of select Parliamentary Speeches of outstanding Parliamentarians to be released - Press Release<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtBkRcET-4W44dIGf7f_6561dwuFQYSr901apPt-tuKGtTxXXehJw_Xx5UNN4BILzQ8aZmQPnJYOs5fhFIQYLwfULVaLKpb7NCg9_XWURuUNWmHL0nyDQukmBBHQTXmkFF8at2WL6NoHo/s2048/invitation+without+zoom+link-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Launch of ebooks containing select Parliamentary speeches of Sansad Ratna Awardees" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1529" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtBkRcET-4W44dIGf7f_6561dwuFQYSr901apPt-tuKGtTxXXehJw_Xx5UNN4BILzQ8aZmQPnJYOs5fhFIQYLwfULVaLKpb7NCg9_XWURuUNWmHL0nyDQukmBBHQTXmkFF8at2WL6NoHo/w478-h640/invitation+without+zoom+link-1.jpg" title="Launch of ebooks containing select Parliamentary speeches of Sansad Ratna Awardees" width="478" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #002060; line-height: 107%;">CURTAIN RAISER PRESS RELEASE</span></b><b><span style="color: #002060;"><br />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">July 04, 2021:<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dr M Veerappa Moily (Former Chief Minister of Karnataka and Union
Minister) and Shri Hansraj Ahir (Former Minister of State, Home Affairs, Govt.
of India) will be releasing, two e-books on 5th July 2021, through a Zoom meeting of distinguished
audience. The e-books contain select Parliamentary speeches of Dr S K
Kharventhan (14th Lok Sabha) and Shri S S Ramasubbu (15th Lok Sabha), both
outstanding Parliamentarians and Sansad Ratna Awardees. They will be launching
the e-books to celebrate the 21st Anniversary of Prime Point Foundation, which instituted the Sansad
Ratna Awards 12 years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sansad Ratna Awards are presented to top performing Parliamentarians
every year after the Budget Session, based on the performance data provided by
PRS India and Lok Sabha Secretariat. The Award was instituted on the suggestion
given by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, who himself launched the first Award event in May
2010. Till 2021, 75 Awards have been presented. The awardees are selected
by a Jury committee of eminent Parliamentarians through a transparent process.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Jury Committee for the current 17th Lok Sabha is headed by Shri
Arjun Ram Meghwal (MoS, Parliamentary Affairs) with Shri N K Premachandran
(Kerala) and Shri Shrirang Appa Barne (Maharashtra) as members. The Jury
Committee Members themselves are the outstanding Parliamentarians and Sansad
Ratna Awardees.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sansad Ratna Awards and Next Gen Political Leaders are the initiatives
of Prime Point Foundation to honour the outstanding Parliamentarians and also
to develop future political leader.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Prime Point Foundation plans to release e-books containing the select Parliamentary
speeches of all Sansad Ratna Awardees in the coming months. On 15th August
2021, 8 such e-books are proposed to be
released to commemorate the 75th Independence Day anniversary celebrations<b>. <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">These e-books will be very useful for<b> </b>political
students and emerging political leaders including Parliamentarians and
Legislators<b>. </b>The e-books will be
distributed free.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Media representatives, who want
to witness and cover the Zoom event on 5th July 2021 at 5 pm may kindly send a
WhatsApp message to Shri Sridhar Raj (9884556655) or Bhawanesh Deora
(9385363537) for getting the Zoom link of
the event<b>.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ends<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">For further details on Prime Point Foundation and
Sansad Ratna Awards, please contact Prime Point Srinivasan (Founder and
Chairman) : Mobile No 9176650273. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://www.primepointfoundation.in/">www.primepointfoundation.in</a>
| <a href="http://www.sansadratna.in/">www.sansadratna.in</a> | <a href="mailto:prpoint@gmail.com">prpoint@gmail.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1642003194605854324.post-32157490104542304502021-03-23T20:51:00.001+05:302021-04-03T21:11:48.968+05:3011th edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2021 - Address by Shri Sunil Arora (Chief Election Commissioner of India) and Justice Shri A K Patnaik (Former Judge of Supreme Court of India)<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1XLmD5kwtQKNFYqZjhGkJN77UcyKiGdh3GPpFVHmbL9V46rEzUdO5xzhME9kpto2tp-MUYSvpVeGVkPI_4sRcq9hW6il2opGZQVKewZ4Vn8HHqaPJJ1HNXEn21L8OU_-rA9SlSInb2SU/s6000/sunil+arora+speaking.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="11th edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2021 - Address by Shri Sunil Arora (Chief Election Commissioner of India) and Justice Shri A K Patnaik (Former Judge of Supreme Court of India)" border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1XLmD5kwtQKNFYqZjhGkJN77UcyKiGdh3GPpFVHmbL9V46rEzUdO5xzhME9kpto2tp-MUYSvpVeGVkPI_4sRcq9hW6il2opGZQVKewZ4Vn8HHqaPJJ1HNXEn21L8OU_-rA9SlSInb2SU/w640-h426/sunil+arora+speaking.JPG" title="11th edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2021 - Address by Shri Sunil Arora (Chief Election Commissioner of India) and Justice Shri A K Patnaik (Former Judge of Supreme Court of India)" width="640" /></a></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: verdana; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;" wfd-id="0">11th edition of Sansad Ratna Awards function was held on Saturday, 20th March 2021 at Constitution Club of India, New Delhi. Shri Sunil Arora (Chief Election Commissioner of India), Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal (Hon'ble MOS Parliamentary Affairs) and Shri Shri Justice A K Patnaik (Former Judge, Supreme Court of India) were the Chief Guests. 10 top performing Parliamentarians were honoured. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: verdana; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;" wfd-id="0">Please watch the full speech of Shri Sunil Arora, Hon'ble Chief Election Commissioner of India. </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: verdana; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p>
<div style="text-align: center;" wfd-id="15"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tOw0Odkj8hc" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;" wfd-id="14"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;" wfd-id="13"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Please watch the Key Note address by Justice Shri A K Patnaik, Former Judge, Supreme Court of India.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;" wfd-id="11"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XN5TsYBQoR8" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1642003194605854324.post-68377160464025614622021-03-23T20:26:00.003+05:302021-04-03T20:46:25.854+05:3011th edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2021 - Welcome speech by Prime Point Srinivasan and address by Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal, MoS, Parliamentary Affairs<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0kz3YBo3y_Ch0VnqVAIrLjZdoskpUBF7NfrMZOviJh1pXDwW-hztE7uWvXmJUcOPQDGATkpFL9BdhGvgCT1iO5MHAlrrwZX8aM38FqT39pSW0rkppdy2L_hrlcfnAeEn0H-kBaFTfz5E/s2048/awardees2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="11th edition of Sansad Ratna Awards held at Constitution Club of India, New Delhi - Group photo with Awardees" border="0" data-original-height="1401" data-original-width="2048" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0kz3YBo3y_Ch0VnqVAIrLjZdoskpUBF7NfrMZOviJh1pXDwW-hztE7uWvXmJUcOPQDGATkpFL9BdhGvgCT1iO5MHAlrrwZX8aM38FqT39pSW0rkppdy2L_hrlcfnAeEn0H-kBaFTfz5E/w640-h438/awardees2.jpg" title="11th edition of Sansad Ratna Awards held at Constitution Club of India, New Delhi - Group photo with Awardees" width="640" /></a></p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-small;"><div style="text-align: center;" wfd-id="5"><b>(Sansad Ratna Awardees )</b></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">11th edition of Sansad Ratna Awards function was held on Saturday, 20th March 2021 at Constitution Club of India, New Delhi. Shri Sunil Arora *Chief Election Commissioner of India), Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal (Hon'ble MOS Parliamentary Affairs) and Shri Shri Justice A K Patnaik (Former Judge, Supreme Court of India) were the Chief Guests. 10 top performing Parliamentarians were honoured. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Please watch the welcome speech of K. Srinivasan, Founder & Chairman of Sansad Ratna Awards Committee and Prime Point Foundation.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Azf5_C7QBlU" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal, Hon'ble Minister of State, Parliamentary Affairs, Government of India gave a Presidential address. He is also the Chairman of the Jury Committee to select the awardees.</span></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ixOQZLivRXA" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1642003194605854324.post-73027108638943815592021-03-23T13:27:00.005+05:302021-04-04T13:52:45.189+05:3011th Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards - Acceptance speech by Bhartruhari Mahtab, Sansad Maha Ratna Awardee<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;" wfd-id="64"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbrLM76krwX7T3h7T7INA7HkIkCcCEvnmxMEk5ckRsQBNwrip6BNt0TMBs883m6QiGm-jijufbIYNhRLecE7ZBsbB0n4QnLGL76-UQBJbpNaC4TqvvTNJweJOIAtVKuBHRGC9R1Ouw81M/s6000/bhartruhari+mahtab1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="11th edition of sansad ratna awards 2021 - acceptance speech by Bhartruhari Mahtab, Sansad Maha Ratna awardee" border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbrLM76krwX7T3h7T7INA7HkIkCcCEvnmxMEk5ckRsQBNwrip6BNt0TMBs883m6QiGm-jijufbIYNhRLecE7ZBsbB0n4QnLGL76-UQBJbpNaC4TqvvTNJweJOIAtVKuBHRGC9R1Ouw81M/w640-h426/bhartruhari+mahtab1.JPG" title="11th edition of sansad ratna awards 2021 - acceptance speech by Bhartruhari Mahtab, Sansad Maha Ratna awardee" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: xx-small;">(Shri Bhartruhari Mahtab)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;" wfd-id="63"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;" wfd-id="62"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; white-space: pre-wrap;">11th edition of Sansad Ratna Awards function was held on Saturday, 20th March 2021 at Constitution Club of India, New Delhi. Shri Sunil Arora (Chief Election Commissioner of India), Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal (Hon'ble MOS Parliamentary Affairs) and Shri Shri Justice A K Patnaik (Former Judge, Supreme Court of India) were the Chief Guests. 10 top performing Parliamentarians were honoured. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;" wfd-id="61"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;" wfd-id="60"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; white-space: pre-wrap;">The following Parliamentarians were honoured.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;" wfd-id="7"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><b style="text-indent: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #002060; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p wfd-id="59"> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">No.<o:p wfd-id="58"></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Name<o:p wfd-id="57"></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p wfd-id="56"> </o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 158.15pt;" valign="top" width="211">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Party
| State<u><o:p wfd-id="55"></o:p></u></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #002060;">SANSAD
MAHA RATNA FOR 16<sup>th</sup> LOK SABHA<o:p wfd-id="54"></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #002060;"><br /></span></b></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.45in;" valign="top" width="43">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">1<o:p wfd-id="53"></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 225pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">Shri Bhartruhari Mahtab<o:p wfd-id="52"></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 158.15pt;" valign="top" width="211">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">BJD <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>| Odisha<o:p wfd-id="51"></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.45in;" valign="top" width="43">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">2<o:p wfd-id="50"></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 225pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">Shri Shrirang Appa Barne<o:p wfd-id="49"></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 158.15pt;" valign="top" width="211">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">Shiv Sena | Maharashtra<o:p wfd-id="48"></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.45in;" valign="top" width="43">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p wfd-id="47"> </o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 225pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p wfd-id="46"> </o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 158.15pt;" valign="top" width="211">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p wfd-id="45"> </o:p></span></p>
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<td colspan="3" style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 415.55pt;" valign="top" width="554">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #002060;">SANSAD
RATNA FOR 17<sup>TH</sup> LOK SABHA <o:p wfd-id="44"></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #002060;">(based
on performance in 2019-20)<o:p wfd-id="43"></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #002060;"><br /></span></b></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.45in;" valign="top" width="43">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">3<o:p wfd-id="42"></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 225pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr Subash Ramrao Bhamre<o:p wfd-id="41"></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 158.15pt;" valign="top" width="211">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">BJP<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>|
Maharashtraq<o:p wfd-id="40"></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.45in;" valign="top" width="43">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">4<o:p wfd-id="39"></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 225pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr Heena Vijaykumar Gavit<o:p wfd-id="38"></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 158.15pt;" valign="top" width="211">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">BJP<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>|
Maharashtra<o:p wfd-id="37"></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.45in;" valign="top" width="43">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">5<o:p wfd-id="36"></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 225pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr Amol Ramsing Kolhe<o:p wfd-id="35"></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 158.15pt;" valign="top" width="211">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">NCP<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>|
Maharashtra<o:p wfd-id="34"></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.45in;" valign="top" width="43">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">6<o:p wfd-id="33"></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 225pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">Shri Ram Mohan Naidu<o:p wfd-id="32"></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 158.15pt;" valign="top" width="211">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">TDP<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>| Andhra
Pradesh<o:p wfd-id="31"></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.45in;" valign="top" width="43">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">7<o:p wfd-id="30"></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 225pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">Shri Ajay Kumar Misra<o:p wfd-id="29"></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 158.15pt;" valign="top" width="211">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">BJP<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>| Uttar Pradesh<o:p wfd-id="28"></o:p></span></p>
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<td colspan="3" style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 415.55pt;" valign="top" width="554">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #002060;">SANSAD
RATNA FOR RAJYA SABHA <o:p wfd-id="27"></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #002060;">(based
on performance in 2019-20)<o:p wfd-id="26"></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #002060;"><br /></span></b></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.45in;" valign="top" width="43">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">8<o:p wfd-id="25"></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 225pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">Shri Vishambhar Prasad Nishad<o:p wfd-id="24"></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 158.15pt;" valign="top" width="211">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">SP<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>|<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Uttar Pradesh<o:p wfd-id="23"></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.45in;" valign="top" width="43">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">9<o:p wfd-id="22"></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 225pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">Smt. Chhaya Verma<o:p wfd-id="21"></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 158.15pt;" valign="top" width="211">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">INC <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>|<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Chhattisgarh<o:p wfd-id="20"></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.45in;" valign="top" width="43">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p wfd-id="19"> </o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 225pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p wfd-id="18"> </o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 158.15pt;" valign="top" width="211">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p wfd-id="17"> </o:p></span></p>
</td>
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<td colspan="3" style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 415.55pt;" valign="top" width="554">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #002060;">DEPARTMENTALLY
RELATED STANDING COMMITTEE <o:p wfd-id="16"></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #002060;"><br /></span></b></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.45in;" valign="top" width="43">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">10<o:p wfd-id="15"></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 225pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">Shri P C Gaddi Goudar<o:p wfd-id="14"></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p wfd-id="11">On behalf of all the Sansad Ratna Awardees, Shri Bhartruhari Mahtab, Sansad Maha Ratna Awardee gave his acceptance speech.</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p wfd-id="11"><br /></o:p></span></p></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-k5qqAiYsUk" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1642003194605854324.post-21883955126695286772021-03-22T20:12:00.002+05:302021-04-02T20:14:22.758+05:3011th edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2021 - A brief Report<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOowCe377BWs4Bo3WFdKpRtxKv3vk1vJ5YeyoK3-ltxoy4V3taYgbwpiYt6faexHmMLR4qdD4QgMK58gSt3K5wNF5IuPGZ6RZM97_qlJS9Ok34PY6X889tv2vXQqjqsRatY9VrnEnc2o1b/s6000/DSC_2915.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="11th edition of sansad ratna awards 2021" border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOowCe377BWs4Bo3WFdKpRtxKv3vk1vJ5YeyoK3-ltxoy4V3taYgbwpiYt6faexHmMLR4qdD4QgMK58gSt3K5wNF5IuPGZ6RZM97_qlJS9Ok34PY6X889tv2vXQqjqsRatY9VrnEnc2o1b/w640-h426/DSC_2915.JPG" title="11th edition of sansad ratna awards 2021" width="640" /></a></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;" wfd-id="20"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-small;">(Sitting L to R : Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal, Shri Sunil Arora, Justice Shri A K Patnaik, Shri Shrirang Appa Barne - Smt. Priyadharshni Rahul on the podium)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;" wfd-id="20"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;" wfd-id="20"><span style="font-family: verdana;">11<sup>th</sup> Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2021<o:p wfd-id="37"></o:p></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;" wfd-id="0">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;" wfd-id="19"><o:p wfd-id="36"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;" wfd-id="18"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The 11<sup>th</sup> edition was held on
20<sup>th</sup> March 2021 at the prestigious Constitution Club of India, New
Delhi. Shri Sunil Arora (Hon’ble Chief
Election Commissioner of India) and Justice Shri A K Patnaik (Former
Judge, Supreme Court of India) presented the Awards during the Awards
function. Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal
(Hon’ble MoS, Parliamentary Affairs, and Chairman of Jury Committee) was also
present. Ten Parliamentarians received
Awards. The event was telecast live by
Doordarshan News and other private channels.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;" wfd-id="17"><o:p wfd-id="34"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;" wfd-id="16"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Shri Bhartruhari Mahtab (BJD, Odisha)
and Shri Shrirang Appa Barne (Shiv Sena, Maharashtra) received the Sansad Maha
Ratna Awards for the 16<sup>th</sup> Lok Sabha.
Smt Supriya Sule (NCP, Maharashtra), though nominated for Sansad Maha
Awards, could not participate due to some urgent official work. Sansad Maha Ratna Awards are given once in
five years. <o:p wfd-id="33"></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;" wfd-id="15"><o:p wfd-id="32"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;" wfd-id="14"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is the first time that the Sansad
Ratna Awards function was held outside Chennai, and in the national capital of
the country. The gist of the speeches of the Chief Guests and the new list of
Sansad Ratna Committee Members are included in this edition. <o:p wfd-id="31"></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;" wfd-id="13"><o:p wfd-id="30"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;" wfd-id="12"><span style="font-family: verdana;">For the first time in the 12 years of
the Sansad Ratna Awards functions, school students participated as volunteers
at the function in New Delhi. The
Management of Ahlcon Public School supported the event with the participation
of 10 senior student volunteers. The
students were given the opportunity to interact with India’s top performing
Parliamentarians. <o:p wfd-id="29"></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;" wfd-id="11"><o:p wfd-id="28"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;" wfd-id="10"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Synopses of the speeches of the main
dignitaries, with YouTube links, are given below.<o:p wfd-id="27"></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;" wfd-id="10"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: verdana; text-indent: 0in;" wfd-id="8">Videos of the 11<sup>th</sup> Sansad
Ratna Awards function: </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: verdana; text-indent: 0in;" wfd-id="6"><span style="background: white;" wfd-id="7"><a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/sansadratna2021">www.tinyurl.com/sansadratna2021</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: verdana; text-indent: 0in;" wfd-id="6"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;" wfd-id="4">Photographs of the event: </span><span lang="EN-GB" wfd-id="2"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/fUidDS3SjSmNvqdZ7"><span style="background: white;" wfd-id="3">https://photos.app.goo.gl/fUidDS3SjSmNvqdZ7</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;" wfd-id="1"> <o:p wfd-id="24"></o:p></span></span></p></div><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">Please watch the Award function in this video.</span></p>
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