Karmaveer Puraskaar
National People's Awards for Citizen Social Justice and Action
Citizen social responsibility
The Karmaveer Puraskaar are awards instituted by the citizens and people of India.These awards are instituted by iCONGO- Confederation of NGOs – a Public-Private-People partnership in association with other partners from industry, media, government, students, SMEs and other sectors as a part of the Right every Wrong Movement. All the awardees are dubbed ‘The Noble Laureates’. These awards seek to celebrate and inspire individual citizen social responsibility, justice and action initiatives and are held every year on 26 November, the day the Indian Constitutional Pledge was signed.
Awards for real-life unsung heroes
"In a country of almost 1.2 billion Indians, we have many awards for movie stars and other achievers launched by tobacco, FMCG, media and beverage brands as marketing campaigns but we are yet to recognise the real-life unsung heroes who believe that it is better to light a candle than curse the darkness by leading a change.Karmaveer Puraskaar is given to change dreamers and doers who practise philanthropy for social justice"-Jeroninio Almeida, founder and chief volunteer, iCONGO.
For the first time, these awards are for individual citizens from various sectors, for excellence and best practices in promoting social justice & action in their sector. Citizens are nominated and selected in the corporate, government, media, SME, students & other sectors, who have contributed to social justice & action. The award is given to citizens individually for their contribution in leading change and is not for any organization.
Karmaveer Puraskaar Noble Laureates, 2008
Artistes for Change ,Karmaveer Puraskaar Noble Laureates
Mr. Arvind Gaur, theatre director
Mrs. Kajol Devgan, film actress
Mrs. Lushin Dubey, theatre actress
Geeta Chandran, Bharatnatyam Dancer & recipient of the Padma Shri
Bobby Cash, Gautam Ghosh and Ritika Sahni,for Music
Media Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar
Umesh Anand and Rita Anand ,Print Media
Pritish Nandy,Film maker
Bhavna Talwar,Filmmaker on contemporary Issues
Nitin Das and Akanksha Joshi, Documentary film maker
Swati D'Souza, Sahej Mantri, Aalap Deboor and Sheetal Bhan ,Short Film makers
Vandana Shah,Author
Mita kapur,Literary Consultant
Lifetime Achievement Karmaveer Puraskaar
Maj. Gen. Raghubir Singh Pannu
Global Indian Karmveer Puraskaar
Dr. Venkat Pullla and Dr.Sailesh Rao
Real Wealth Creators For The Communities
Mr.Rajendra Joshi and Vipin Sharma
Lifelong Fight for Social Justice Through Citizen Action
Pamela Gale Malhotra
Government Citizen Karmveer Puraskaar
Syeda Hameed
Corporate Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar
Corporate Citizens for Holistic CSR Initiatives- CEO- Ajay Bijli ,CSR Head- Deepa Menon
Corporate Citizens for Holistic Media Initiatives - Chairman- Indu Jain, Director- Pooran Pandey
Corporate CEO's Foundation -Ashok Kurien
Corporate Executive Citizen - Meera Sanyal
Civil Society Karmaveer Puraskaar
Disability - Divya Arora
HIV – Dr Ashok Rau
Community Welfare - T. K. Mathew
Fund Raising - Surat Sandhu
Education, Health and Empowerment - Shobha Murthy
Women Empowerment and Child labour - Nusrat Naqvi
Animal Welfare and Environment - Nigel Otter
Cancer - Harmala Gupta
Care for the Elderly - Sailesh Mishra
Social Communications and Campaign Strategist - Meenakshi Madhwani
Social Venture Mentoring - Varun Sahni
Social Entrepreneurship/Transformation - Rejendra Misra
Student Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar
Inir Pinheiro
Young Social Entrepreneur Citizen
Meghna Agrawal
Madhusudan Agrawal
Professional Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar
Madhu Bhatnagar
Shrenik Rao
Kids 4 Change
Aradhna Chhachhi
Diwakar
Young Creative Citizen
Ambar Prakash
Karmaveer Puraskaar Noble Laureates,March,2007
Lifetime Achievement Award for creating real wealth for the community
Dr. Verghese Kurien
Recognition for promoting social responsibility
Mr. Harsh Mander
Mr. James Michael Lyngdoh
Ms. Anu Aga
Mr. Arun Maira
Mr. Crispino Lobo & Ms. Marcella D'souza
Mr. Vikram Akula
Karmaveer Puraskaar Noble Laureates,26 Nov,2007
Lifetime Achievement Karmaveer Puraskaar
Dr. M.S. Swaminathan
Lifelong Fight for Social Justice and Action Karmaveer Puraskaar
Dr. Leo Rebello
Mr. Alyque Padamsee
Global Indian Karmaveer Puraskaar
Mr. Pavan Sukhdev
Civil Society Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar
Mr. Nanda Rana
Dr. Latika Rana
Mrs Shanti Raghavan
Professional Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar
Mr. Raj Bhandare
iCONGO-Deakin University Student Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar
Ms. Ishita Chaudhry
iCONGO-Business World Corporate Citizen in CSR Karmaveer Puraskaar
Mrs. Mamta Saikia
iCONGO-Business World Corporate Citizen in IT Karmaveer Puraskaar
Mr. Sridhar Reddy
iCONGO- Tehelka- CMS Media Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar
Ms. Revathi
Mr. Altaf Ahmad
Artistes for Change Karmaveer Puraskaar
Mr. Rahul Bose
Mr. Remo Fernandes
Ms. Sushma Veer
Kids for Change Karmaveer Puraskaar
Baby Benzy
Akhil Akkineni
iCONGO-Exchange 4 Media Young Creative Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar
Ankur Garg and Vivek Kumar Singh
Sportspeople for Change Karmaveer Puraskaar
Gopichand Pullela
Mahesh Bhupathi and Shvetha Bhupathi
Young Social Entrepreneur Karmaveer Puraskaar
Abhishek Bharadwaj