The Indian National Congress on Friday, October 11 announced the winner of 2017 & 2018 Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration for ‘his services in promoting and preserving National Integration in the country’.
The award consists of a Citation and cash of Rs 10 lakh. The prize will be awarded Sonia Gandhi, the Congress president on 31st October 2019 in the Jawahar Bhawan Auditorium.
It is given annually starting from 1985 to distinguished persons/institutions for promoting national integration and understanding and fellowship amongst religious groups, communities, ethnic groups, cultures, languages and traditions of India and the strengthening, through thought and action of the nation’s sense of solidarity.
The Award has so far been given to Swami Ranganathananda (1987), Aruna Asaf Ali, The Bharat Scouts and Guides (1987), P. N. Haksar, M. S. Subbulakshmi (1990), Rajiv Gandhi (Posthumous), Paramdham Ashram (Wardha, Maharashtra), Acharya Tulsi (1993), Bishambhar Nath Pande (1996), Beant Singh (Posthumous) & Natwar Thakkar (Jointly), Gandhi Institute of Public Affairs (Karnataka), Indira Gandhi Centre for National Integration (Shanti Niketan), A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Shankar Dayal Sharma (Posthumous), Satish Dhawan, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, Ram-Rahim Nagar Slum Dwellers Association (Ahmedabad), Aaman Pathik Peace Volunteer Group (Ahmedabad), Ram Sinh Solanki and Sunil Tamaiche (Jointly), the 2015-16 award was given to TM Krishna.
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