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| 11th edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2020 - Awardees |
Press Release
Sansad Ratna
Awardees 2020 Announced
Performance
Review of Parliamentarians Strengthens Democracy – Mr. Arjun Ram Meghwal, MOS
Parliamentary Affairs
New Delhi 24th
June 2020
Mr. Arjun Ram
Meghwal, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, observed that
recognition and performance review of Parliamentarians by the civil
society helps strengthen democracy, during the presentation of the list
of MPs nominated for the 11th edition of the Sansad Ratna
Awards 2020. When 'We the people' elect the Parliamentarians and
legislators, they have the moral responsibility to monitor the performance of
the elected representatives, said the Minister, who is the Chairman of the Jury
Committee of Sansad Ratna Awards.
Mr. N. K.
Premachandran MP and Mr. Shrirang Appa Barne MP are the other Jury
Members. All the three Jury Members have been outstanding
Parliamentarians and recipients of the Sansad Ratna Awards in the previous Lok
Sabha. The Sansad Ratna Awards were instituted in 2010 by a Chennai-based NGO
Prime Point Foundation, and the eMagazine PreSense, following the suggestions
of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam (former President of India) to honour the
perfection-oriented Parliamentarians. He himself launched the first Awards
function in May 2010. The awardees are
selected by a Jury Committee of eminent Parliamentarians, observing absolute
transparency based on the performance parameters provided by the Lok Sabha
Secretariat and PRS India.
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| Jury Committee Members L to R - Mr Shrirang Appa Barne, Mr Arjun Ram Meghwal, Mr N K Premachandran |
According to
Mr. K. Srinivasan, Chairman of the Prime Point Foundation and Sansad Ratna
Awards Committee, the Jury Committee nominated three Parliamentarians for
'Sansad Maha Ratna Award' based on their sustained quality of performance
in the 16th Lok Sabha. This is a prestigious award presented once in five
years.
Eight Lok Sabha
Members, two Rajya Sabha Members and one Departmentally Related Standing
Committee will be receiving the Sansad Ratna Awards 2020 for their performance
in the 17th Lok Sabha. The actual date for the awards’
presentation event will be notified after normalcy is restored in the country,
after tackling the pandemic COVID-19.
Sansad Maha
Ratna Awards
Mr. Bhartruhari
Mahtab (BJD, Cuttack, Odisha), Mrs. Supriya Sule (NCP, Baramati, Maharashtra)
and Mr. Shrirang Appa Barne (Shiv Sena, Maval, Maharashtra) will be receiving
the coveted 'Sansad Maha Ratna Award' for their sustained qualitative
performance in the 16th Lok Sabha. This Award is presented once in five
years.
Standing
Committee
The
Departmentally Related Standing Committee on Agriculture receives the Sansad
Ratna Award 2020 as the best performing committee. The Committee was
selected based on the reports presented to Parliament, supported by the number
of sittings. Mr. P C Gaddigoudar (BJP, Bagalkot Karnataka) is the
Chairman of the Committee.
Lok Sabha
Eight sitting
Lok Sabha Members will be receiving the Sansad Ratna Awards 2020 under various
categories, based on their performance during the first year of the 17th Lok
Sabha.
Ms. Supriya
Sule (NCP, Baramati, Maharashtra) gets the Sansad Ratna Award 2020 for her
overall performance in Initiated Debates, Questions and Private Members Bills
in the first year of the 17th Lok Sabha.
Dr. Subhash
Ramrao Bhamre (BJP, Dhule, Maharashtra), Dr. Heena Gavit (BJP, Nandurbar,
Maharashtra) and Dr. Amol Ramsing Kolhe, (NCP, Shirur, Maharashtra) will
be receiving the Sansad Ratna Award 2020 for Questions, Women and First-time
MPs categories respectively.
Dr. Shashi
Tharoor (INC, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala), Dr. Nishikant Dubey (BJP,
Godda, Jharkhand), Mr. Ajay Misra (BJP, Kheri, Uttar Pradesh)
and Mr. Ram Mohan Naidu (TDP, Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh) have been
nominated for the ‘Jury Committee Special Award’ for their overall qualitative
performance and individual efforts.
Rajya Sabha
Mr. Vishambhar
Prasad Nishad (Samajwadi Party, Uttar Pradesh) and Ms. Chhaya Verma (INC,
Chhattisgarh) have been nominated for their overall performance in Rajya Sabha
during the first year coinciding with Lok Sabha. This category of
honouring the sitting MPs of Rajya Sabha has been introduced this year.
Commendations
Ms. Supriya
Sule, accepting the honour of Sansad Maha Ratna said, “I am humbled to be
nominated for the Sansad Maha Ratna award this year. This award symbolises the
immense responsibility bestowed upon me and the people's expectations I am to
fulfil in coming years. I pledge to continue to work for the betterment of all
our people.”
As the
Chairperson of the Agriculture Committee, Mr P C Gaddigoudar said, “I am happy
and delighted to receive this honourable award initiated by our Late President
Dr.A.P.J Abdul Kalam. I am very thankful to all the committee members for
actively participating in all meetings and providing valuable inputs and
suggestions at the appropriate time to achieve this feat.
On behalf of the Agriculture Committee Members and stakeholders, we are elated to receive this prestigious Sansad Ratna Award”.
Mr Bhartruhari
Mahtab, accepting the honour of Sansad Maha Ratna Award said, “Recognising the
performance of the Members of Parliament by the Civil Society is highly
commendable in this time when cynicism is ruling the roost in political life
and there is all round pessimism relating to politics. The Sansad Maha Ratna Award is a unique
endeavour, not only recognising the genuine work of Members of Parliament but
also to attract the youths of this age towards public life. This also encourages MPs to work for the
people of this country. This definitely gives a boost and also reminds us that
there are some in this society who are taking note of our actions inside the
Parliament. I feel humbled on being conferred the Sansad Maha Ratna, which is
presented once in five years, and also thank Prime Point Foundation and the
Sansad Ratna Award Committee who have taken into account the performance”.
End
Media contact:
Press Release issued by
Mr K. Srinivasan, Chairman, Prime Point Foundation and Chairman, Sansad Ratna
Awards Committee Mobile: 9176650273
Mr Bhawanesh Deora,
President, Sansad Ratna Awards Committee (Mobile: 9385363537)
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