[rti4empowerment] Nominations for IRDS Awards 2011

 

Friends, Institute for Research and Documentation in Social Sciences (IRDS), a Non-governmental organization from Lucknow, shall be presenting five IRDS awards for 2011 to young achievers respectively in the fields of Human Rights, Law and legal affairs, Media and Journalism, management and Government services. These awards are named respectively as Safdar Hashmi award, V N Shukla award, Surendra Pratap Singh Award, Manjunath Shanmugam award and Satyendra Dubey award. There shall be no cash component associated with the award. The upper age limit for the awards has been fixed at 45 years. All the awards have been named after those prominent Indian personalities who died while still in the prime of their youth and who had a long promising career left ahead. Such personalities have been chosen with the hope that these awardees shall try to fulfill some of those left promises. Safdar Hashmi was a playwright, actor and theorist, chiefly associated with secular values and associated culture who was brutally murdered in Delhi while performing a street play, Halla Bol. V N Shukla was one of the leading experts of Constitutional law. He got his Ph D from London in 1952 but even before that he had written down the authoritative book "Constitution of India" in 1950, among the most respected books on the topic. Surendra Pratap Singh was a journalist, news anchor, and newspaper editor who was not only  the founder of Aaj Tak but is often regarded as the first true investigative journalist and is credited with having produced a host of fantastic journalists. Manjunath Shanmugam was a Management graduate from IIM Lucknow who joined Indian Oil. He fought vehemently against corruption of Petrol Pump mafias and was brutally killed by some of them in Lakhimpur Khiri. Satyendra Dubey was an engineering graduate from IIT Kanpur who served in National Highway Authority of India. He raised his voice against corruption in his department and got killed in the process.    The awards are open to all Indians and Non-Resident Indians who are 45 or below on 28th February 2011. Only individuals are eligible for the awards and not any society or organization. IRDS requests you all to kindly spread this message far and wide and to send suitable proposals to it at IRDS, 5/426, Viram Khand, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow or at irdslucknow@gmail.com. The last date for receiving the nomination/ proposition is 28th  February, 2011 while the awards shall be announced on 10th March 2011. http://www.irdsindia.com/irdsawards2011.html Dr Nutan Thakur, Secretary, IRDS, Lucknow 94155-34525

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