Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award
Award Information
- Type: Civilian
- Instituted: 1992
- First Awarded: 1992
- Awarded by: All India Congress Committee
- Cash Award: Rs. 5 Lakh
Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award (Rajiv Gandhi National Communal Harmony Award) is an Indian award given for outstanding contribution towards promotion of communal harmony, national integration and peace. The award was instituted by All India Congress Committee of the Indian National Congress Party (INC), in 1992 to commemorate the lasting contribution made by the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, carries a citation and a cash award of Rs. 5 Lakhs. It is given on August 20, the birth anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi, which is celebrated as Sadbhavna Diwas (Harmony Day)
Year Recipients
1996 Lata Mangeshkar ,singer
1998 Sunil Dutt,Peace activist, politician
2000 Kapila Vatsyayan, Scholar
2003 S. N. Subba Rao, Peace activist
2004 Swami Agnivesh, Social activist
2005 Nirmala Deshpande, Social activist
2006 Hem Dutta, Social activist
2007 N Radhakrishnan, Social activist
2008 Gautam Bhai, Social activist
2009 Wahiduddin Khan, Islamic scholar, peace activist
2011 SPIC MACAY, Promotes Indian classical music and culture among the youth
SPIC MACAY :
In 1977, Prof. Kiran Seth set up SPIC MACAY (Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture amongst Youth), a non-profit voluntary youth movement, which now has around 250 chapters nationwide.
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2011
narendra kumar choudhary
September 23, 2017 at 11:08 amHi, the prize money for Rajeev Gandhi Rastriya sadbhavna award is 10 lakh…so plz update it.