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TWELFTH
MAHAVEER AWARDS – 2006 |
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Her
Excellency Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil
presenting the 12th Bhagwan Mahaveer Award
to Action for Protection of Wild Animals
( APOWA ) for excellence in the Sphere
of Non - Violence and Vegetarianism. |
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The
Jury felt that the NGO's activities in the field of animal
welfare and animal rights in the coastal part of Orissa as
commendable and deserve the award. Apart from caring for stray
animal, the NGO has also done outstanding service during natural
disaster in the areas requiring relief operations. A 400 year
old practice of sacrificing animals was also stopped as also
possible sacrifies of about a dozen horses at Yagna.
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The
NGO has taken considerable initiative in stopping these sacrifices.
These were stopped with the help of Animal Rights Activists.
This apart, the organization has also taken considerable initiative
in educating children and motivating volunteers to take up
the cause of non - violence towards animals. |
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The
NGO has persuaded a large number of students from using leather
items wherever possible. Its role in pursuading young men
and woman to take up non - violence values such as protection
of animals, vegetarianism is really impressive. The Bhagwan
Mahaveer Foundation takes great pleasure in making the award
to the NGO. |
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Mahatma
Ganghi Institute India's first rural medical college
was set up in the year 1969 to meet the needs of rural India.
Kasturba Hospital which was started by Gandhi Ji himself forms
part of this hospital. The Institute is committed to the pursuit
of professional excellence by evolving an integrated to the
pursuit of professional excellence by evolving an integrated
pattern of medical education to produce doctors sensitive
to the needs of rural India, and provide accessible and affordable
health care primarily to underprivileged rural communities.
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Her
Excellency Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil presenting the 12th
Bhagwan Mahaveer Award to Shri. Dhirubhai Mehtha, President
of Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences for excellence
in sphere of Education and Medicine. |
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students and faculty adhere to an unique code of conduct which
includes wearing Khadi, Sarva - Dharma community prayer, Shramadan,
Vegetarianism and Eschewing alcoholb and tobacco. On ethical
grounds, the Institute does not accept sponsorship of pharmaceutical
companies in organizing academic activities. |
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College has functioned as an agency for change of values by
insisting of community ownership in health, self help groups,
social health education, Kisan Vikas Manch etc. To sum up,
the institution is a model institute in community health care.
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The
Bhagwan Mahaveer Foundation is Happy to confer their award
for excellence in education and medicine on the institute.
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The award for Excellence in Community service has gone to
Amar Seva Sangam, Ayikudy, Tirunelveli
Dist. This Institution was established by Mr.
S. Ramakrishnan, a totally physically challenged
person in the year 1981. Even though it was feared that his
life was doomed after an accident during an interview at Air
Force Training process, by sheer determination, he has succeeded
in setting up an example to the entire physically challenged
population to prove that even they can be assets to the community.
He has been joined by Shri. S Sankara Raman,
another physically challenged person and both are running
the institution with a basket include establishment and maintenance
of a gaushala, a middle school having about 480 students and
holding of medical camps.
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Her
Excellency Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil presenting
the 12th Bhagwan Mahaveer Award to Shri. S. Sankara
Raman, Hony. Secretary of Amar Seva Sangam , Ayikudy
for excellence in the sphere of Community and Social
Service. |
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Even though a relatively modest effort, the fact that they
are spearheading an effort by largely disadvantaged people
has ompressed the jury and the Foundation is happy to make
the Award for social and community service to the Amar Seva
Sangam. |
