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Bajaj award winners named

MUMBAI: Yashpal Mittal, Dr. Anand Karve, Ms. Ashoka Gupta and Prof. Michael Nagler will be the recipients of the Jamnalal Bajaj awards for 2007.

Yashpal Mittal, 74, will receive the Award for Outstanding Contribution for his contribution to the “bhoodan movement,” and for spreading communal harmony.

Dr. Anand Karve, 71, president of Appropriate Rural Technology Institute in Pune, will get the Award for Application of Science and Technology for Rural Development.

Dr. Karve has completed 39 projects on behalf of national and international institutions and worked mainly in water management, green house technology and post-harvest technology.

Ms. Ashoka Gupta will be given the “Award for Uplift and Welfare of Women and Children” for her work with homeless children and for women’s rights in West Bengal.

In her nineties, she is still active and has written two books about her experiences as an activist.

The International Award for Promoting Gandhian Values Outside India will go to Prof. Michael Nagler, 70, who is Professor Emeritus of Languages at the University of California, Berkeley, and founder and former chairperson of the university’s Peace and Conflicts Studies Programme.

A peace activist and scholar, he has delivered several lectures and written books.

He also helped found the “Non-violent Peace Force,” which has done work in Sri Lanka. The awards consist of a citation, a trophy and a cash prize of Rs. 5 lakh.

The awards will be presented by H.H. Sri Sri Ravishankar of the Art of Living Foundation on November 14, 2007.

The awardees were selected by the former Bombay High Court judge Justice C.S. Dharmadhikari, the former Atomic Energy Commission chairman, Dr. H.N. Sethna, Air chief Marshal I.H. Latif and Dr. M.S. Swaminathan from 108 nominations. Of these nominations 13 persons were nominated from different countries.

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