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Pravasi Bharatiya Samman

Pravasi Bharatiya Samman
Civilian award for contributions to International
The President, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil with the Pravasi Bhartiya Samman awardees for 2009, at the 7th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, in Chennai on January 09, 2009.jpg
President of India and awardees at a Pravasi Bharatiya Divas in 2009
Awarded forto honour exceptional NRIs and PIOs
Sponsored byPresident of India
First awarded2003
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Total awarded136

The Pravasi Bharatiya Samman (Overseas Indian Honour/Award) is an award constituted by the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, Government of India in conjunction with the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (Non-Resident Indian Day), to honour exceptional and meritorious contribution in their chosen field/profession. The award is given by the President of India.[1] Since 2016, the Government of India has doubled the number of awardees each year to 30 after a decision to grant the award once every two years.[2]

Award criteria

Pravasi Bharatiya Samman (PBS) is conferred for outstanding contributions in any of the following areas:

  1. "Better understanding of India"
  2. "Support to India’s causes and concerns in a tangible way"
  3. "Building closer links between India, the overseas Indian community and their country of residence;"
  4. "Social and humanitarian causes in India or abroad"
  5. "Welfare of the local Indian community"
  6. "Philanthropic and charitable work"
  7. "Eminence in one’s field or outstanding work, which has enhanced India’s prestige in the country of residence; or"
  8. "Eminence in skills which has enhanced India’s prestige in that country (for non-professional workers)."[3][4]

Awardees for 2019

2019 Awardees[5]
Country of residence Name Field of Merit
Australia Nihal Singh Agar Social Service
Bhutan Rajinder Nath Khazanchi Civil Engineering
Canada Ramesh Chotai Business
People's Republic of China Amit Waikar Business
Egypt Indian Community Association in Egypt Community Service
France Malini Ranganathan Academics & Arts
Guyana Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha Community Service
Italy Bitthal Das Maheshwari Business
Jamaica Guna Sekhar Muppuri Medical Science & Entrepreneurship
Kenya P. V. Sambasiva Rao Technology
Kenya Prakash Madhavdas Heda Medical Science
Kuwait Rajpal Tyagi Architecture
Myanmar Banwarilal Satya Narayan Goenka Business Management
New Zealand Bhavdeep Singh Dhillon Business
Norway Himanshu Gulati Public Service
Oman Vinodan Verambally Thazhikuniyil Business
Poland Jagdeshwar Rao Maddukuri Entrepreneurship
Qatar Purnendu Chandra Tiwary Training & Simulation
South Africa Anil Sooklal Diplomacy
South Africa Swami Saradaprabhananda Community Service
Switzerland Rajendra Kumar Joshi Science
Tanzania Shamim Parkar Khan Public Service
United Arab Emirates Girish Pant Business
United Arab Emirates Surender Singh Kandhari Business
United Arab Emirates Zulekha Daud Medical Science & Business
Uganda Rajesh Chaplot Chartered Accountancy
United States of America Chandra Shekhar Mishra Science
United States of America Gita Gopinath Academics
United States of America Gitesh Jayantilal Desai Structural Engineering
United States of America Kiran C Patel Medical Science

Awardees for 2017

Country Name Field of Merit

[6][2]

Australia Gorur Krishna Harinath Community Service
Bahrain V.K. Rajashekharan Pillai Business
Belgium Antwerp Indian Association Community Service
Brunei Nazeer Ahamed Mohamed Zackiriah Community Service
Canada Mukund Purohit Business
Djibouti Nalinkumar Sumanlal Kothari Community Service
Fiji Vinod Patel Social Service
France Raghunath Marie Antonin Manet Arts & Culture
Israel Lael Anson E. Best Medical Science
Japan Sandip Kumar Tagore   Arts & Culture
Libya Ariful Islam Community Service
Malaysia Tan Sri Dato Dr. Muniandy Thambirajah Education and Community Service
Mauritius Pravind Jugnauth Public Service
Portugal António Costa Public Service
Qatar Raghavan Seetharaman Business Management
Saudi Arabia Zeenat Musarrat Jafri Education
Singapore Singapore Indian Association Community Service
Sweden Carani Balaraman Sanjeevi Medicine
Thailand Susheel Kumar Saraff Business
Trinidad and Tobago Winston Chandarbhan Dookeran Public Service
United Arab Emirates Vasudev Shamdas Shroff Community Service
United Arab Emirates India Social and Cultural Centre, Abu Dhabi Philanthropy & Community Service
United Kingdom Priti Patel Public Service
United Kingdom Neena Gill Public Service
United States of America Hari Babu Bindal Environmental Engineering
United States of America Bharat Haridas Barai Community Service
United States of America Nisha Desai Biswal Public Affairs
United States of America Mahesh Mehta Community Service
United States of America Ramesh Shah Community Service
United States of America Sampatkumar Shidramapa Shivangi Community Leadership

Awardees for 2015

Country Name Description Field of Merit
Australia Mala Mehta Founder of Indo- Australian Bal Bharatiya Vidyalaya in Thornleigh suburb in Sydney. Since its establishment, she has been pursuing the growth of Hindi in Australia. Education & Community Service
Guyana Donald Rabindernauth Ramaotar President of Guyana and awarded for his work for the Indian diaspora. Public Service
Mexico Dr Rajaram Sanjaya India-born Mexico scientist and winner of the 2014 World Food Prize for developing 480 wheat varieties that have been released in 51 countries. Scientific Research
New Zealand Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi Member of Parliament (MP) from New Zealand. He is also known for his work for the Indian diaspora in New Zealand. Public Service
Oman Rajmal Parakh Leading philanthropist, active in social services and charitable work in Oman and India. Social Service
Seychelles Duraikannu Karunakaran Justice of the Supreme Court of Seychelles Judicial Service
South Africa Essop Goolam Pahad Politician and Minister in the Presidency from 1999 to 2008 Public Service
United Arab Emirates Shah Bharatkumar Jayantilal Social worker known for contributions to charities and philanthropy. Community Service
United Arab Emirates Ashraf Thamarassery Social activist Social Work
Uganda Mahendra Nanji Mehta Indian-origin businessman Public Service
United Kingdom Nathu Ram Puri Founder of Purico and awarded for his contributions to the Indian diaspora. Education & Community Service
United Kingdom Raj Loomba, Baron Loomba Philanthropist and founder of clothing company Rinku Group. He is a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords Public Service
United States of America Satya Nadella CEO of Microsoft Business Management
United States of America Kamlesh Lulla Chief Scientist for Earth Observation in the Human Exploration Science office at Johnson Space Center at NASA Scientific Research
United States of America Nandini Tandon Awarded for her contributions to life sciences, healthcare and Information technology in USA, India as well as other emerging economies. Management of Healthcare and Business

Awardees for 2014

Country Name Description Field of Merit
Australia Ms. Senator Lisa Maria Singh First member of South Asian descent in Australian Parliament
Bahrain Dr Varghese Kurian Leading overseas Indian businessman
Canada Vasdev Chanchlani Entrepreneur and philanthropist based in
Fiji Ramakrishna Mission
France BikasChandra Sanyal Renowned educationist
Netherlands Satnarainsing Rabin Baldewsingh Significant contribution to promoting better understanding of India
Papua New Guinea Sasindran Muthuvel First Member of Parliament of Indian origin in Papua
Saudi Arabia Shihabudeen VavaKunju Contributor to welfare of Indian community
South Africa Ela Gandhi Contributions in promoting ties between India and South Africa, and the cause of freedom
United Arab Emirates Shamsheer Vayalil Contribution in field of healthcare business and for promoting etter understanding of India
United Kingdom Shailesh Vara First Indian origin Govt. minister for Conservative Party
United States Dr. Parthasarathy Chiramel Pillai Contributions in field of science, and fostering closer relations between India and USA
United States Dr. Renu Khator One of the first persons of Indian origin to head a higher system and a research university in the United States. Chancellor of the University of Houston System and President of the University of Houston
United States Dr. Namita Roy-Chowdhury First Indian woman to become a full professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York. Discoverer

of the genetic bases of inherited jaundice (Crigler-Najjar syndrome and Gilbert Syndrome)

Awardees for 2013

Country Name Description Field of Merit
Mauritius H E Mr. Rajkeswur Purryag The President of the Republic of Mauritius
United States Narendra R Kumar A doctor specialising in otolaryngology head and neck surgery[7]
Middle East KT Rabeeullah Businessman - Chairman and Managing Director of Shifa Al Jazeera Medical Group Middle East Community Service
United Arab Emirates Bava Haji Pandalingal
India Patricia Maria Rozario Music Contributions in the field of music "Outstanding achievements"[8]
Germany Professor Gurusharan Singh Chatwal Science
Guyana Ashok S. Vaswani, community service
Malaysia Tan Sri Ravindran Menon Community service
Mexico Dr. Rasik V.Joshi Literature
New Zealand Dr.Satendra K.Singh Community service
Réunion Gilbert. C. Moutien Business
South Africa  Ismail E. Ebrahim Public Services
United States Subhash Razdan Public service

Awardees for 2012

Country Name Description Field of Merit
Bahrain Mr. P. V. Radhakrishna Pillai or Plavalil Kizhakkethil Vasudevan Radhakrishna Pillai
Cambodia Mr.Sachchidanand Sahai
Canada Indo‐Canada Chamber of Commerce
Côte d'Ivoire Mr. Deepak Naraindas Shivdasani
Germany Mr. Victor Shahid Smetacek
Indonesia Mr.Prakash Lohia
Mozambique Mr. Jose Parayanken
Oman Mr. Kiran Navinchandra Asher
Qatar Mr. Hassan Abdulkarim Chougule
Singapore Mr.S. R. Nathan — The former President of Singapore
South Africa Ms. Khorshed Noshir Ginwala
Trinidad and Tobago The Hon. Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
Ukraine Mr. Rajesh Kumar Saraiya
United States Prof. Surendra Kumar Kaushik
United States Kalpalatha Kummamuri Guntupalli

Awardees for 2011

Country Name Description Field of Merit
Australia Prof.Veena Harbhagwan Sahajwalla Science
Canada Dr. Rajni Kanabar Arts
Hong Kong Shri Harindarpal Singh Banga Business
Israel Shri Hohammad Munir Nazir Hassan Ansari  Community Service
Liberia Shri Upjit Singh Sachdeva  Community Service
Malaysia Tan Sri Dato’ Ajit Singh Public Affairs
New Zealand Sir Anand Satyanand Public Affairs
Netherlands Shri Saleh Wahid Community Service
Qatar Indian Community Benevolent Forum Community Service
Saudi Arabia Dr. Mohiaddin Syed Karimuddin Pediatrician, Jeddah Community Service
Sri Lanka Shri Mano Selvanathan Business
United Arab Emirates Shri Mohan Jashanmal Community Service
United Kingdom Sandip Verma, Baroness Verma  Public Affairs

Awardees for 2010[9]

Country Name Description Field of Merit
United Arab Emirates Dr.Azad Moopen Chairman of Aster DM Healthcare Healthcare
Tanzania Dr. Rajni Kanabar In recognition of the philanthropic work done under the Tanzania Heart Babies Project. He was instrumental in facilitating surgeries of 1300 children from Tanzania in India who were suffering from congenital heart defects. Founder of the Regency Medical Centre in Dar es Salaam Healthcare
Brunei Darussalam Shri Mohinder Singh Bhullar Community Service
Fiji Shri Yanktesh Permal Reddy Community Service
Japan Shri Ryuko Hira Community Service
Japan Smt Dr. Ruby Umesh Pawankar Medicine
Oman Shri Suresh Kumar Virmani Community Service
South Africa Shri Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan Public Service
South Africa  Dr. Tholisiah Perumal Naidoo Community Service
Thailand Shri Deepak Mittal Business
Trinidad & Tobago  Dr. Lenny Krishendath Saith Public Service
USA Dr. Mani Lal Bhaumik Community Service
USA Shri Ashok Kumar Mago Community Service
USA Shri Upendra J. Chivukula Public Service

Awardees for 2009[9]

Country Name Field of Merit
Malaysia Tan Sri G. Vadiveloo Community Service
Bahrain Soman Baby Community Service
Mauritius Shri Angidi Chettiar Public Service
Madagascar Shri Ylias Akbaraly Community Service
Netherlands Shri Ram Lakhina Community Service
Oman P. N. C. Menon Philanthropy
South Africa Shri Parmananthan ‘Prema’ Naidoo Public Service
Suriname Shri Ramdien Sardjoe Public Service
United Arab Emirates Shri J. R. Gangaramani Community Service
United Kingdom Baroness Shreela Flather Public Service
United States Prof C. K. Prahalad Management
United States Prof. Sumit Ganguly Public Service
United States Dr. Sampatkumar Shidramapa Shivangi Community Leadership

Awardees for 2008

Country Name Description Field of Merit
Saudi Arabia Dr. Mohammed Roshankt Chairman of TCS-FNS
Bahrain Dr. Ravi Pillai Managing director Nasser Al Hajri Corporation Business
Mauritius Dr. Navinchandra Ramgoolam Prime Minister Mauritius Public Affairs
Australia Neville Joseph Roach Chairman of TCS-FNS
Japan A. P. S. Mani Founder and coordinator of Indian Community Activities in Tokyo
New Zealand Judge Ajit Swaran Singh District Judge in New Zealand
Saudi Arabia Dr. Rafiudin Fazulbhoy Founding member of the Indian school at Jeddah and the Indian Pilgrims' Welfare Forum
Sweden Bicky Chakraborty CEO Elite Hotels, Sweden
United Arab Emirates Krishnamurthy Kumar Founding governor of the Indian Business and Professional Council
United Kingdom Lord Karan Bilimoria Chancellor Thames Valley University
United States Dr. Thomas Abraham Founder chairman Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO Inc.)
United States Joy Cherian Commissioner at the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Trinidad and Tobago National Council of Indian Culture NGO dedicated to the promotion of Indian culture in Trinidad and Tobago

Awardees for 2007

Country Name Description Field of Merit
United States Gopal Raju journalist, founder-editor India Abroad Media
United Kingdom Lord Diljit Rana Hon. Consul Belfast, Managing Director Andras House Business
Canada Dave Sukhdip Singh Hayer Member of Legislative Assembly of British Columbia Public Affairs
United States Dr. Madhavan Anirudhan President Essen Nutrition Business
South Africa Billy Nair Member of Parliament, ANC South Africa Public Affairs
Kenya Pheroze Nowrojee Advocate, Human Rights Activist Community Affairs
United States Nirmal K. Sinha Community Leader, Significant contribution to fostering friendship between India and USA Community Affairs
Malaysia Tan Sri Dato K.R. Somasundram Executive Chairman, National Land Finance Co-operative Society Public Affairs
Jamaica Kenneth S. Benjamin Founder and chairman of the Guardsman Group Business
Germany Sibabrata Roy President Indo-German Society Hamburg, Promoter of Indian Culture in Germany Community Affairs
United Arab Emirates Syed M. Salahuddin Managing Director, ETA-Ascon Group Business
United Arab Emirates Dr.Bavaguthu Raghuram Shetty Businessman Pharmaceuticals, Chairman Board of Governors Abu Dhabi Indian School Business
Fiji Sir Moti Tikaram Justice, National President Fiji World Jurist Association Public Affairs
Portugal Dr. Abdool Magid Karim Vakil President Comunidade Islamica de Lisboa Business
United States Dr. Panchapakesa Jayaraman Writer, Promoter of Hindi language and literature Culture

Awardees for 2006

Country Name Description
Thailand Shivnath Rai Bajaj
Israel Eliahu Bezalel
Mauritius Abdool Raouf Bundhun
Philippines Pratima Kale
Saudi Arabia Majid Uddin Kazi
Qatar C. K. Menon
United Kingdom Gulam Kaderbhai Noon
United States Sudhir M. Parikh
Guyana Yesu Persaud
Seychelles V. Ramadoss
South Africa Sisupal Rambharos
United States Niranjan S. Shah
Hong Kong Rusy M. Shroff
Singapore Shan V
Réunion Jean-Paul Virapoullé
United States Fareed Zakaria journalist, editor of Newsweek International

Awardees for 2005

Country Name Description
Hong Kong M. Arunachalam President, Asia Pacific India Chambers of Commerce
United States Jagdish Bhagwati Indian American economist
South Africa Amina Cachalia Women's activist, politician
Tanzania J.K. Chande Chancellor, International Medical and Technological University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Germany Alokeranjan Dasgupta Poet, philosopher, academic
South Africa Ahmed Kathrada South African anti-apartheid activist
United States Sunil Khilnani Political scientist, writer
Trinidad and Tobago Basdeo Panday Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
United Kingdom Bhikhu Parekh member, British House of Lords
United States Sam Pitroda Indian American entrepreneur and Indian communications policymaker
United Kingdom Vikram Seth Novelist and poet
United States M. Night Shyamalan Indian American film screenwriter, director and producer
Fiji Vijay Singh Indo-Fijian golfer
Sri Lanka A Vijayan Disaster Search & Rescue - Indian Ocean Tsunami
United States Sant Singh Virmani Rice scientist
United Arab Emirates M. A. Yusuff Ali Owner of Lulu Group International (Abu Dhabi headquartered Indian conglomerate)

Awardees for 2004

Country Name Description
Thailand Dipak Jain Dean, Kellogg School of Management
United States Kalpana Chawla NASA Astronaut
Zimbabwe Ahmed Moosa Ebrahim Supreme Court justice
Guyana Bharrat Jagdeo President of Guyana
Fiji Mahendra Pal Chaudhry Fmr. Prime Minister of Fiji
Kuwait Dr. Marian Chisti
United Kingdom Lord Meghnad Desai Economist, Writer, Labour politician
United States Narinder Singh Kapany
United States Shashi Tharoor Politician, Diplomat, Writer
New Zealand Sukhi Turner Fmr. Mayor of Dunedin, New Zealand
India Dr P Mohamed Ali

Awardees for 2003

Country Name Description
Mauritius Rt. Hon’ble Sir Anerood Jugnauth Prime Minister of Mauritius
South Africa Prof. Fatima Meer she took active part in political, social and philanthropic causes, deeply influenced by the Gandhian values and approach
Hong Kong Dr. Hari N. Harilela Business ventures and community welfare activities, he has been long considered the standard-bearer and the most recognizable symbol of the Indian Diaspora in Hong Kong.
Oman Shri Kanaksi Gokaldas Khimji The Khimjis have utilized their proximity to the ruling family in the cause of the Diaspora and strengthening links between India and Oman.
Kenya Shri Manilal Premchand Chandaria He has used his resources to propagate Indian ethos and values. He helped set-up Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Academy Society and Gandhi Smarak Nidhi Fund in Kenya.
United Kingdom Navnit Dholakia, Baron Dholakia Lord Dholakia made significant contributions in the fields of community care and issues relating to ethnic unrest. He played an important role in addressing the sensitive issue of racial discontent.
United States Shri Rajat Gupta Shri Gupta has embarked on work relating to community welfare and social and Philanthropic causes. He played a key-role in the establishment of the Indian School of Business at Hyderabad.
Guyana Sir Shridath Surendranath Ramphal Sir Ramphal is a distinguished Jurist having been Solicitor General and Attorney General of Guyana and Member of International Commission of Jurists. Sir Ramphal also held positions of responsibility in international organizations such as Independent Commission on International Development Issues, Independent Commission on Disarmament and Security Issues, Independent Commission of International Humanitarian Issues and World Commission on Environment and Development, Chairman UN Committee for Development Planning and President, World
Malaysia Dato’ Seri S. Samy Vellu Deputy Minister of Local Government and Housing (1978–79); Minister for Works (1979–85) and Minister of Energy, Tele communications & Posts, Malaysia (1989–95). He has been a Member of the House of Representatives of the Malaysian Parliament since 1974.
Canada Ujjal Dosanjh In 1991 Shri Dosanjh was elected as Member of Legislative Assembly in the Vancouver Kensington constituency and then as Caucus Chair. He became the Minister for Human Rights, Multiculturalism, Sports and Immigration in 1995 and then was appointed the Attorney General of British Columbia. In a historic development, he was elected as the 33rd Premier and President of the Executive Council of the British Columbia, which is first for a person of Indian origin in Canada.

References

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  2. ^ a b "Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards 2017 conferred". Jagranjosh.com. 10 January 2017.
  3. ^ "Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award, 2019" (PDF). www.cgihamburg.gov.in.
  4. ^ "MEA | Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award (PBSA)". www.mea.gov.in.
  5. ^ "List of Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awardees (PBSA) for the year 2019". www.mea.gov.in. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  6. ^ "Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards-2017". www.mea.gov.in. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
  7. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 September 2019. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  8. ^ "Patricia Rozario bags Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award". The Times of India.
  9. ^ a b "Press Information Bureau: Government of India news site, PIB Mumbai website, PIB Mumbai, Press Information Bureau, PIB, India's Official media agency, Government of India press releases, PIB photographs, PIB photos, Press Conferences in Mumbai, Union Minister Press Conference, Marathi press releases, PIB features, Bharat Nirman Public Information Campaign, Public Information Campaign, Bharat Nirman Campaign, Public Information Campaign, Indian Government press releases, PIB Western Region".

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