IRDS Awards 2011- Winners Institute for Research and Documentation in Social Sciences (IRDS), a Civil society located in Lucknow announced six IRDS awards for 2011 to young achievers respectively in the fields of Management , Medicine and Health, Government services , Media and Journalism , Human Rights and Law and legal affairs, The awardees are Kaushalendra (Manjunath award- Management ), Dr Milind Dewgaonkar (Anandbai Joshi award- Medicine), Amitabh Thakur (Satyendra Dubey award- Government service), Deepak Azad (Surendra Pratap Singh award- Journalism), Dr Pranav Bhagirath (Safdar Hashmi award- Human Rights) and Sandeep Kumar (V N Shukla award- Legal affairs).
Kaushalendra, a topper of IIM Ahmedabad's 2007 batch, refused to join any multinational and began selling vegetables through ice-cooled push-carts and is now working hard on his Organised Vegetable Marketing (ORVEM) project through Samriddhi and Kaushalya Foundation to enable people to buy vegetables through pre-paid cards. Dr Milind Dewgaonkar is working in Neurosurgery Department at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, USA. He has seven patents in the fields of Neuro-modulation, Neurogenic dysfunction etc to his name and his research work on Spinal Injury is particularly appreciated. Amitabh Thakur is a 1998 batch IPS officer from Orissa who made a remarkable impact in Orissa as the DCP of Bhuvaneshwar, following it with extraordinary works at CBI including solving double murder in Maharashtra with the arrest of a senior NCP MP and arrest of then Gujarat home minister in the Sohrabuddin encounter case. Deepak Azad is an independent young journalist from Dehradun, Uttaranchal who stood against all kinds of allurement and threat for the sake of his principles, paying price at a personal level. His special efforts against the menace of Paid News are well-recognized. Dr Pranav Bhagirath, age 26 years is a young and enthusiastic MBBS doctor from Amsterdam, Netherlands who is equally concerned about social works in Bulandshahr, UP. His organization PRAY, a Dutch charity organization is working towards a lasting improvement in quality of life of the disadvantaged groups of the region. Sandeep Kumar is a well-known Advocate of Patna High Court who is actively engaged in providing free and cheap legal assistance to poor and needy petitioners. He also files PILs out of which his PIL about cheating-free Board examinations and illegal acquisition of land by State Government in Shekhpura region have been widely appreciated. 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. The awardees have been chosen with the hope that they shall try to fulfill those left promises. The six awards have been chosen in a manner that the awardees are less than 45 years as on 28 th February 2011. Dr Nutan Thakur Secretary, IRDS, Lucknow # 94155-34525 |
Thursday, March 10, 2011
[rti4empowerment] Winners of IRDS Awards 2011
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