Among the awardees is the billionaire (US-based businessman Darshan Singh Dhaliwal) who was denied entry into India for supporting farmers’ protest, and
Guyana’s President Mohamed Irfaan Ali
The Indian Government on Monday announced 27 names for the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards, the highest civilian award for Non-Resident Indians (NRIs), People of Indian Origin (PIO) and Overseas Citizen of India. The award also includes organisations or institutions established and run by the people of Indian diaspora.
Following are the eminent people from the Indian diaspora who got the Award for 2023.
- Jagadish Chennupati of Australia: In the field of science and technology and education
- Sanjeev Mehta of Bhutan in education
- Dilip Loundo of Brazil in art and culture and education
- Alexander Maliakel John of Brunei in medicine
- Vaikuntam Iyer Lakshmanan of Canada in community welfare
- Joginder Singh Nijjar of Croatia in art and culture
- Ramjee Prasad of Denmark in IT
- Kannan Ambalam of Ethiopia in community welfare
- Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay of Germany in community welfare
- Mohamed Irfaan Ali of Guyana in politics and community welfare
- Reena Vinod Pushkarna of Israel in business and community welfare
- Maqsooda Sarfi Shiotani of Japan in education
- Rajagopal of Mexico in education
- Amit Kailash Chandra Lath of Poland in business
- Parmanand Sukhumal Daswani of the Republic of Congo in community welfare
- Piyush Gupta of Singapore in business
- Mohanlal Hira, South Sudan
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- Sanjaykumar Shivabhai Patel of South Sudan in community welfare
- Sivakumar Nadesan of Sri Lanka (community welfare)
- Dewanchandrebhose Sharman of Suriname (community welfare)
- Archana Sharma of Switzerland (science and technology)
- Frank Arthur Seepersad of Trinidad and Tobago (community welfare)
- Siddharth Balachandran of the UAE (business)
- Chandrakant Babubhai Patel of the UK (media)
25 Darshan Singh Dhaliwal of the US (business and community welfare)
- Rajesh Subramaniam of the US (business)
- Ashok Kumar Tiwary of Uzbekistan (business)
The PBSA is conferred by the President as part of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention on non-resident Indians (NRIs), persons of Indian origin (PIOs) or organisations established and run by NRIs or PIOs in recognition of their outstanding achievements in India and abroad.
The 17th edition of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention will be held at Indore in Madhya Pradesh during January 8-10. The awards will be conferred by the President during the valedictory session of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas celebrations.
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