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Awards & Honors (July to December 2021) by Dr. Gaurav Garg

1. Name: Kaushik Basu

● Award: Humboldt Research Award for Economics 2021

2. Name: Cachar district of Assam

● Award: National Silver SKOCH Award for 'Pushti Nirbhor' (nutrition-dependent).
○ Pushti Nirbhor is a convergence project on transformation and growth entailing
organizing nutri-gardens at homes in Dinnathpur Bagicha village.

3. Name: Sandesh Jhingan

● Award: AIFF Men's Footballer of The Year 2020-21 Award

4. Name: Bala Devi

● Award: AIFF Women’s Footballer of the Year 2020-21 Award

5. Name: Vinay Badhwar

● Award: Alexander Dalrymple award by the British government in recognition of his works in areas of
hydrography and nautical cartography

6. Name: Payal Kapadia

● Award: Oeil d'or (Golden Eye) award for Best Documentary for her film 'A Night of Knowing Nothing' at
Cannes Film Festival

7. Name: Cyrus Poonawalla

● Award: Lokmanya Tilak National Award for 2021

8. Name: Anand Radhakrishnan

● Award: Will Eisner Comic Industry Award 2021

9. Name: Jagdish Bhagwati and C Rangarajan

● Award: Prof. C.R. Rao Centenary Gold Medal award 2021

10. Name: India-assisted Mangdechhu Hydroelectric Project, Bhutan

● Award: Brunel Medal awarded by the London-based Institution of Civil Engineers
(ICE)

11. Name: Telangana

● Award: AI Gamechanger Award at the Xperience-AI Summit organized by NASSCOM

12. Name: Nagaland

● Award: Seven national awards on the first Van Dhan Annual Awards 2020-21

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13. Name: Soorarai Pottru
● Award: Best Feature Film at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2021

14. Name: NTPC Limited

● Award: Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Energy Leader Award-2021

15. Name: Basant Kumar Misra

● Award: International Lifetime Achievement Award in Neurosurgery’ from American Association of
Neurological Surgeons
16. Name: Shailendra Singh
● Award: Behler Turtle Conservation Award for turtle conservation

17. Name: Vedic-GPS

● Award: Best Research-based Documentary award at the First Hermetic International Film Festival, Venice

18. Name: Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi

● Award: CII ‘National Energy Leader’ and ‘Excellent Energy Efficient Unit’ at 22nd edition of ‘Energy
Efficiency Summit

19. Name: The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
● Award: Africa Food Prize 2021 for improving food security in sub-Saharan Africa

20. Name: Anand Kumar

● Award: Swami Brahmanand Award 2021 for his contribution in the field of education through his ‘Super 30’
initiative

21. Name: National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), run by the Union Education Ministry
● Award: King Sejong Literacy Prize, UNESCO Literacy prize for innovation in education

22. Name: Sheikh Hasina

● Award: SDG progress award for steady progress in achieving the sustainable development goals

23. Name: Phumzile Mlambo- Ngcuka

● Award: 2021 global goalkeeper award by Bills & Melinda Gates Foundation

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24. Name: Anusha and Rakshitha Naik
● Award: The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) innovation Award 2021
○ They received the award for their project named “Gas Saving Kit”

25. Name: Jeel Albena Association for Humanitarian Development

● Award: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Nansen Refugee Award for
2021

26. Name: Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE)

● Award: 2021 Right Livelihood Award

27. Name: Shiv Nadar and Mallika Srinivasan

● Award: 2021 Global Leadership Award, by the US India Business Council

28. Name: Eric Hanushek and Dr.Rukmini Banerji

● Award: 2021 Yidan Prize for Education Development for improving learning outcomes in schools at scale

● Award: 2020-21 edition of the FIH Stars Awards

○ Player of the Year: Harmanpreet Singh (men) and Gurjit Kaur (women)
○ Goalkeeper of the Year: PR Sreejesh (men) and Savita Punia (women)
○ Rising Star of the Year: Vivek Sagar Prasad (men) and Sharmila Devi (women)
○ Coach of the Year: Graham Reid (men) and Sjoerd Marijne (women)

29. Name: G Satheesh Reddy

● Award: Aryabhata Award by the Astronautical Society of India

30. Name: Satya Nadella

● Award: ‘2021 C K Prahalad Award’ for Global Business Sustainability leadership

31. Name: Dr Randeep Guleria

● Award: Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in 2021

32. Name: Henrietta Lacks

● Award: WHO Director-General’s award’ (Posthumously)

33. Name: Gorkha Rifles

● Award: Gold medal in the Cambrian Patrol Exercise 2021

34. Name: Parambikulam Tiger Conservation Foundation

● Award: Earth Guardian Award 2021, instituted by the NatWest Group

35. Name: Hollywood veteran Martin Scorsese and Hungarian filmmaker Istevan Szabo
● Award: 1st ever ‘Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award’ at the 52nd International Film Festival of India

36. Name: Kochi, Kerala

● Award: Award for the ‘city with the most sustainable transport system’

37. Name: Rajinikanth

● Award: 51st Dada Saheb Phalke Award (for the year 2019)

38. Name: Rajiv Nigam

● Award: 1st scientist selected for ‘Joseph A. Cushman Award 2022’

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39. Name: Tsitsi Dangarembga
● Award: 1st black woman to be awarded 2021’s Peace Prize of the German Book Trade

40. Name: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation

● Award: ‘Metro Rail with the Best Passenger Services and Satisfaction’ by the Union Ministry of Housing and
Urban Affairs

41. Name: Lovlina Borgohain

● Award: Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2021

● Neeraj Chopra – Athletics

● Ravi Dahiya – Wrestling
● P R Sreejesh – Hockey
● Lovlina Borgohain – Boxing
● Sunil Chhetri – Football
● Mithali Raj – Cricket
● Pramod Bhagat – Badminton
● Sumit Antil – Athletics
● Avani Lekhara – Shooting
● Krishna Nagar – Badminton
● Manish Narwal – Shooting
● Manpreet Singh – Hockey

42. Name: Servesh Dhadwal and Amit Bisht

● Award: Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports

43. Name: Hema Malini and Prasoon Joshi

● Award: Indian Film Personality of the Year Award at the 52nd edition of the International Film Festival of
India 2021
● Golden Peacock Award for Best Film: Japanese film Ring Wandering (Masakazu Kanyeko)

44. Name: Prakash Padukone

● Award: Lifetime Achievement Award 2021 from the Badminton World Federation

45. Name: Pratham

● Award: The Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament, and Development for 2021

46. Name: Puneeth Rajkumar

● Award: 10th recipient of the Karnataka Ratna Award

47. Name: Kamdhenu Hitkari Manch, Himachal Pradesh

● Award: ‘Best Milk Cooperative Society’ and was awarded the ‘Gopal Ratna Award’

● Indian actor Dhanush won Best Actor (Male) for his role in ‘Asuran’. Brazilian actor Lara Boldorini was
honoured with Best Actor (Female) for her role in ‘On Wheels’.
● 6th BRICS Film Festival 2021

48. Name: Rohan Bopanna

● Award: Rajyotsava Award by Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai

49. Name: Anju Bobby George

● Award: Woman of the year award by World Athletics

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50. Name: Tamil Nadu
● Award: Best State in promoting the empowerment of persons with disabilities

51. Name: Nizamuddin Basti Community

● Award: UNESCO AsiaPacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation 2021

52. Name: V Praveen Rao

● Award: Dr M S Swaminathan Award for the period 2017-2019

53. Name: Ropesh Goyal from IIT Kanpur

● Award: The ‘Young Geospatial Scientist award’

54. Name: Neena Gupta

● Award: 2021 Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians

55. Name: Narendra Modi

● Award: Bhutan has conferred the country’s highest civilian award Ngadag Pel gi Khorlo

56. Name: Kumar Mangalam Birla

● Award: First Indian Industrialist to receive Global Entrepreneur of the Year Award-Business Transformation
from The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE)

57. Name: Steel Authority of India Limited

● Award: Golden Peacock Environment Management Award for 2021

58. Name: Avani Lekhara

● Award: Best Female Debut honour at the Paralympics Awards

59. Name: Azim Premji

● Award: Dr. Ida S. Scudder Humanitarian Oration award

60. Name: Divya Hegde

● Award: UN Women’s Award for leadership Commitment at the 2021 Regional Asia-Pacific Women’s
Empowerment Principles Awards ceremony

61. Name: IIT Roorkee

● Award: Top position under the most innovative research institutions category by the Confederation of Indian
Industry (CII)

62. Name: Anil Prakash Joshi

● Award: Mother Teresa Memorial Award for social justice 2021

63. Name: P. Sainath

● Award: Fukuoka Grand Prize 2021

64. Name: Snehakunja Trust

● Award: UNDP Equator Prize 2021 from India

65. Name: Teesta-V Power Station

● Award: Prestigious Blue Planet Prize by International Hydropower Association,
London

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66. Name: David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian
● Award: 2021 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch

67. Name: Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi

● Award: 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics
○ The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 was awarded "for groundbreaking contributions to our
understanding of complex physical systems" with one half jointly to Syukuro Manabe and Klaus
Hasselmann "for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably
predicting global warming"
○ And the other half to Giorgio Parisi "for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in
physical systems from atomic to planetary scales.”

68. Name: Benjamin List and David MacMillan

● Award: 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis

69. Name: Abdulrazak Gurnah

● Award: 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of
colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents

70. Name: Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov

● Award: 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for
democracy and lasting peace

71. Name: David Card, Joshua D. Angrist, and Guido Imbens

● Award: 2021 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
○ The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in
Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021 with one half to David Card “for his empirical
contributions to labour economics”
○ And the other half jointly to Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens “for their methodological
contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”

72. Name: Vidyut Mohan

● Award: The ‘Earth shot Prize’ for the year 2021 for developing a technology for converting Agri waste into
bio-products

73. Name: Alexei Navalny

● Award: Sakharov Prize for freedom of Thought for 2021

74. Name: Damon Galgut

● Award: 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel ‘The Promise’

75. Name: Vihaan and Nav Agarwal

● Award: The 2021 Kids Rights International Children’s Peace Prize

76. Name: Nikhil Srivastava, Indian-American mathematician

● Award: Ciprian Foias Prize

77. Name: Dorje Angchuk

● Award: Only Indian Honorary Member of the International Astronomical Union

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78. Name: Rao Jaimal Rathore
● Award: The ministry of communications has launched the commemorative Postage Stamp
on his 515th birth anniversary

79. Name: Sohan Roy

● Award: First Indian to be honoured with Knighthood of Parte Guelfa

80. Name: Balkrishna Doshi

● Award: Royal Gold Medal 2022 by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) the world’s highest honour
for architecture

81. Name: Balkrishna Doshi

● Award: Royal Gold Medal 2022 by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) the world’s highest honour
for architecture

82. Name: Nirvaan John Rao (12) and Sethulakshmi Chandra (15)
● Award: Diana Award 2021
○ Established in 1999 by the British Government, the award continues Princess Diana’s legacy by
recognizing distinguished work by youngsters in the 9-25 age group in their local communities.

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