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AWARDS AND HONOURS - August 2021

Aug 2021

Feb 11, 2022

Nitin Gadkari Received 18th Late Madhavrao Limaye Award

Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari was facilitated with the 18th late Madhavrao Limaye award in the category of Karyakram Khaasdar (Efficient Member of Parliament) for the year 2020-21. This award was facilitated by Nashik Public Library, Sarvajanik Vachanalay. Earlier, the award was given to Karyaksham Aamdaar, an efficient Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Maharashtra.
The Sarvajanik Vachanalay annually selects one of the members of Vidhan Parishad (Lok Sabha), Vidhan Sabha (Rajya Sabha) for the Efficient MLA or Member of Parliament (MP) Award. The award was instituted in the memory of Limaye by his daughter Dr. Shobha Nerlikar. The award consists of Rs. 50,000 in cash and a memento.

Feb 07, 2022

Jamia Millia Islamia Faculty Bags 'Sir CV Raman Young Scientist Award 2021'

Dr. Ufana Riaz, Assistant Professor at Department of Chemistry, Jamia Millia Islamia was conferred with 'Sir CV Raman Young Scientist Award 2021' along with the award Rs. 25000/- in recognition of her outstanding contribution in the field of Materials Chemistry by the St. Peters Institute of Higher Education and Research, Avadi Chennai. The award and citation were presented at the 12th convocation of the Institute.
Dr. Ufana Riaz published more than 140 research papers in the field of conducting polymers, co-authored 3 books and 25 book chapters. Her research work has been published in renowned and highly reputed international journals.

Feb 05, 2022

Karnataka Bank Gets Digital Transformation Award, 'DX 2021 Awards'

Karnataka Bank was awarded the digital transformation award, 'DX 2021 Awards', in recognition of the "innovative" best practice 'KBL VIKAAS', by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for Best Practice in Digital Transformation.
KBL VIKAAS, a wholistic transformation journey, launched by the bank in 2017, has enabled the bank in implementation of digital capabilities, namely, digital journeys for assets and liability products, enhancement in customer experience under ADC products and bringing in a strong culture of sales and marketing. The bank recently launched the digital transformation journey 'KBL NxT' as part of wave 2.0 of 'KBL VIKAAS', with an objective of taking the digital initiatives to the next level and eventually emerge as 'the digital bank of future.

Jan 29, 2022

Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve Bags TX2 Award

Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (Erode district, Tamil Nadu) was given the prestigious TX2 award after its tiger numbers doubled to 80 since 2010. Apart from the STR, the Bardia National Park in Nepal won this year's TX2 award for doubling the population of wild tigers. Sathyamangalam wildlife sanctuary was declared a tiger reserve in 2013 and the reserve that spreads across 1,411.60 sq km is an important link between the Nilgiris and Eastern Ghats landscape. The Nilgiri biosphere landscape that this reserve is part of is currently the home to the largest tiger population in the world. It is connected to other well-established tiger habitats like Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, Bandipur Tiger Reserve and BR Hills Tiger Reserve.
The award acknowledges the efforts by the State governments and the local communities which have played one of the most important roles to turn a relatively new tiger reserve into one of the source populations of tigers in India. The awards are presented by the Conservation Assured Tiger Standards (CA|TS), Fauna and Flora International (FFI), Global Tiger Forum (GTF), IUCN's Integrated Tiger Habitat Conservation Programme (ITHCP), Panthera, UNDP, The Lion's Share, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and WWF.

Jan 28, 2022

Assam Government Awards 'Asom Baibhav Award' to Ratan Tata

The government of Assam conferred its highest civilian award 'Assam Baibhav' on industrialist Ratan Tata. Assam governor Jagdish Mukhi conferred the award to the former chairman of Tata Sons. The Assam government conferred 'Assam Baibhav' to Ratan Tata for his contribution to setting up cancer treatment facilities in the state.
Assam Saurav award was conferred on Professor Dipak Chand Jain, Lovlina Borgohain, Professor Kamalendu Deb Krori, Dr Lakshmanan S, and Neel Pawan Baruah.
Assam Gaurav award was conferred on Manoj Kumar Basumatary, Munindra Nath Ngatey, Dharanidhar Boro, Hemoprabha Chutia, Dr Basanta Hazarika, Kaushik Baruah, Khorsing Terang, Akash Jyoti Gogoi, Namita Kalita, Dr Asif Iqbal, Kalpana Boro, Boby Hazarika, and Bormita Momin.

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