Saturday, June 16, 2018

Sansad Ratna Awards 2018 - Interactive session with award winning parliamentarians

Interactive session with award winning Parliamentarians
Sansad Ratna Awards 2018 (9th edition) and National Seminar on Politics, Democracy and Governance (7th edition) was held at IIT Madras on 9th June 2018.  Six MPs and one Parliamentary Committee Chairman were honoured with Sansad Ratna Awards for their outstanding performance.

Shri M K Narayanan (Former Governor of West Bengal and Former National Security Advisor to Prime Minister) and Shri T S Krishnamurthy (Former Chief Election Commissioner of India) presented the Awards.  Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal (Hon'ble MOS Parliamentary Affairs) and Dr Bhaskar Ramamurthy (Director, IIT Madras) were also present.  

After the Award presentation, the awardees interacted with the audience sharing their views and success stories.  Dr Veerappa Moily, Chairman of Finance Committee was also present.  

Shri Bhartruhari Mahtab (Party: Biju Janata Dal; Constituency: Cuttack, Odisha), Smt. Supriya Sule (Nationalist Congress Party, Baramati, Maharashtra), Shri Shrirang Appa Barne (Shiv Sena, Mavel, Maharashtra), Rajeev Shankarrao Satav (Indian National Congress, Hingoli, Maharashtra) and Dhananjay Bhimrao Mahadik (Nationalist Congress Party, Kolhapur, Maharashtra) and Dr Heena Vijayakumar Gavit (Bharatiya Janata Party, Nandurbar, Maharaashtra) were also present during the interactive session. 

Please watch the full proceedings:


In the afternoon session, Dr Veerappa Moily and Shri Bartruhari Mahtab shared very useful information about the functioning of Parliament and Standing Committees.

Sansad Ratna 2018 Awards - speeches by M K Narayanan and T S Krishnamurthy

M K Narayanan, Former Governor of West Bengal and Former National Security Advissor to Prime Minister
M K Narayanan
Sansad Ratna Awards 2018 (9th edition) and National Seminar on Politics, Democracy and Governance (7th edition) was held at IIT Madras on 9th June 2018.  Six MPs and one Parliamentary Committee Chairman were honoured with Sansad Ratna Awards for their outstanding performance.

Shri M K Narayanan (Former Governor of West Bengal and Former National Security Advisor to Prime Minister) and Shri T S Krishnamurthy (Former Chief Election Commissioner of India) presented the Awards.  Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal (Hon'ble MOS Parliamentary Affairs) and Dr Bhaskar Ramamurthy (Director, IIT Madras) were also present.  

Shri M K Narayanan delivered an inspiring speech, after presenting the awards.

The text of his speech may be downloaded from this link.


Shri T S Krishnamurthy, Former Chief Election Commissioner of India was the Guest of Honour.  Please listen to his informative speech.

Sansad Ratna Awards 2018 - Important speeches

(L to R : Susan Koshy, K. Srinivasan, M K Narayanan, Arjun Ram Meghwal, T S Krishnamurthy, Dr Bhaskar Ramamurthy, Bhawanesh Deora, Dr Sudarsan Padmanabhan - Getting ready for award presentation ceremony)
(L to R : Susan Koshy, K. Srinivasan, M K Narayanan, Arjun Ram Meghwal, T S Krishnamurthy, Dr Bhaskar Ramamurthy, Bhawanesh Deora, Dr Sudarsan Padmanabhan - Getting ready for award presentation ceremony)
Sansad Ratna Awards 2018 (9th edition) and National Seminar on Politics, Democracy and Governance (7th edition) was held at IIT Madras on 9th June 2018.  Six MPs and one Parliamentary Committee Chairman were honoured with Sansad Ratna Awards for their outstanding performance. (link)

Shri M K Narayanan (Former Governor of West Bengal and Former National Security Advisor to Prime Minister) and Shri T S Krishnamurthy (Former Chief Election Commissioner of India) presented the Awards.  Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal (Hon'ble MOS Parliamentary Affairs) and Dr Bhaskar Ramamurthy (Director, IIT Madras) were also present.  

K. Srinivasan, Founder of Sansad Ratna Awards welcomed the gathering.


Dr Bhaskar Ramamurthy, Director, IIT Madras delivered Key Note Address.  He announced about the new internship model developed by IIT Madras to support Parliamentarians.


Hon'ble Minister Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal in his special address appealed to all award winning Parliamentarians to utilise the service of IIT Students interns to formulate development plans in their constituencies.

Presentation of Sansad Ratna Awards 2018 at IIT Madras

Sansad Ratna 2018 Awardees
Sansad Ratna 2018 Awardees
9th edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2018 was held at IIT Madrason 9th June 2018.  Shri M K Narayanan (Former Governor of West Bengal and Former National Security Advisor to Prime Minister) and Shri T S Krishnamurthy (Former Chief Election Commissioner of India) presented the Awards in the presence of Shri Arjun Ram Meghal (Hon'ble MOS Parliamentary Affairs and Jury Committee Member) and Dr Bhaskar Ramamurthy (Director, IIT Madras).


From this year, one ‘Departmentally Related Standing Committee’ of Parliament too was honoured based on criteria like the reports presented, the number of sittings held and the number of subjects selected, and others.  Dr M Veerappa Moily, Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance received the Awards personally on behalf of the Finance Committee.

The selection of individual awardees was  based on the performance parameters like initiated debates, private members’ bills, questions raised and the attendance in the House.  The data is provided by Lok Sabha Secretariat and PRS India.

Shri Bhartruhari Mahtab (Party: Biju Janata Dal; Constituency: Cuttack, Odisha), Smt. Supriya Sule (Nationalist Congress Party, Baramati, Maharashtra), Shri Shrirang Appa Barne (Shiv Sena, Mavel, Maharashtra), Rajeev Shankarrao Satav (Indian National Congress, Hingoli, Maharashtra) and Dhananjay Bhimrao Mahadik (Nationalist Congress Party, Kolhapur, Maharashtra) and 
Dr Heena Vijayakumar Gavit (Bharatiya Janata Party, Nandurbar, Maharaashtra) received the Sansad Ratna Awards. 

Please watch the presentation of awards in this short video.

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Sansad Ratna Awards 2018 - Background notes and photos

Sansad Ratna Award Winners 2018
Sansad Ratna Awardees 2018)
9th edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2018 was held at IIT Madras on Saturday, 9th June 2018.  Shri M K Narayanan (Former Governor of West Bengal and Former National Security Advisor to Prime Minister) and Shri T S Krishnamurthy (Former Chief Election Commissioner of India) were the Chief Guests and presented the Awards.

Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal, Hon'ble MOS (Parliametnary Affairs) and the Jury Committee Member was also present.  

For the first time, Sansad RAtna Awards Committee introduced an Award to a Parliamentary Committee.  Dr. Veerappa Moily, Hon'ble Chairman of Finance Committee received the Award on behalf of the Committee.

Smt. Supriya Sule (NCP), Shri Shrirang Appa Barne (Shiv Sena), Shri Bartruhari Mahtab (BJD), Shri Rajeev Shankarrao Satav (Congress), Shri Dhanjay Bhimrao Mahadik (NCP) and Dr Heena Gavit (BJP) received the Sansad Ratna Awards 2018.

All the background documents and award photos may be downloaded from the following link.


All the photographs have been uploaded in the following links.  You can download the required photos.

Part I - sansad ratna awards 2018


Morning session - Sansad Ratna Awards 2018


Evening Session - Sansad Ratna Awards 2018


Please keep visiting this site.  We will post the videos of individual talks also.

Friday, June 8, 2018

9th edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2018 - Link for live webcasting of the event

9th edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2018 and 7th edition of National Seminar on Politics, Democracy and Governance will be held at IIT Madras on Saturday, 9th June 2018 from 9.30 am. The details of the event is given below.  

The entire proceedings can be watched live from the link



Monday, June 4, 2018

Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance to get Sansad Ratna Award



IANS Story - 4th June 2018

Chennai, June 4 (IANS) The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance will be awarded the Sansad Ratna Award 2018 for its outstanding performance, a top official said on Monday.

"We have decided to honour Departmentally Related Standing Committees with Sansad Ratna Award based on the criteria like the reports presented, numbers of sittings and number of subjects selected and others," K. Srinivasan, Founder, Prime Point Foundation, told IANS.

The Foundation has been awarding top performing MPs since 2010.

"In the Indian Parliamentary system, the Standing Committees plays an important role in studying the subjects and guiding the government. Since, we wanted to create awareness about Standing Committees, we have introduced the Award under this category," Srinivasan added.

The selection of award winners was done by a Jury Committee consisting of eminent parliamentarians.

"M. Veerappa Moily, Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance will receive the award at a function to be held in Indian Institute of Technology-Madras on Saturday," Srinivasan said.

Former West Bengal Governor M. K. Narayanan and former Chief Election Commissioner of India T. S. Krishnamurthy will present the awards.

According to Srinivasan, during the 16th Lok Sabha till date, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance had selected 67 subjects, held 84 sittings and presented 60 reports as per the data culled from the Lok Sabha website.

There are 24 Departmentally Related Standing Committees in Parliament. Sixteen are known as Lok Sabha Committees and eight as Rajya Sabha Committees.

"We could get data only for 16 Lok Sabha Committees. We could not get data for the Rajya Sabha Committees," Srinivasan said.

In addition, seven MPs (six from Lok Sabha and one from Rajya Sabha) will also be honoured with the Sansad Ratna Award for their individual performances.

He said the names of the seven MPs will be announced on Friday.

These awards were instituted by Prime Point Foundation in 2010 based on the suggestion given by late President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam to celebrate achievers.

This is the only award on behalf of the civil society to honour achievers in Parliament, Srinivasan added.

--IANS

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