Karmaveer Puraskaar

The Karmaveer Puraskaar are National People's Awards for Citizen Social Justice and action instituted by the citizens and people of India. These awards are instituted by iCONGO (a confederation of NGOs), a public-private partnership in association with other partners from industry, media, government, students, SMEs and other sectors as a part of the Right every Wrong Movement. All the awardees are dubbed Noble Laureates. These awards seek to celebrate and inspire individual citizen social responsibility, justice' and action initiatives and are held every year on 26 November, the day the Indian Constitutional Pledge was signed.

Awards for real-life unsung heroes

"In a country of almost 1 billion Indians, we have many awards for movie stars and other achievers launched by tobacco, FMCG, media, and beverage brands as marketing campaigns but we are yet to recognise the real-life unsung heroes who believe that it is better to light a candle than curse the darkness by leading a change.Karmaveer Puraskaar is given to change dreamers and doers who practise philanthropy for social justice"-Jeroninio Almeida, founder and chief volunteer, iCONGO.

For the first time, these awards are for individual citizens from various sectors, for excellence and best practices in promoting social justice & action in their sector. Citizens are nominated and selected in the corporate, government, media, SME, students & other sectors, who have contributed to social justice & action. The award is given to citizens individually for their contribution in leading change and is not for any organization.

Karmaveer Puraskaar Noble Laureates, 2012

Award Category	Awardee
Global Citizen KVP 2012	Ms.Nida Shams Mr.Michael Norton Obe
Global Indian KVP 2012	Ms.Carmen Miranda Mr.Vijay Mehta
Lifelong Fight For Social Justice KVP, 2012	Mr.Shahid Azmi
Lifelong Fight For Social Justice KVP, 2012	Ms.Geeta Venkadakrishnan
Real Wealth Creator For The Communities KVP, 2012	Mr.Nand Kishore Chaudhary
Government Citizren KVP,2012	Dr. S.Y. Quraishi Ms.Chhavi Rajawat General Vinod Saigha
Media Citizen KVP, 2012	Filmmaker- Contemporary Issues - Mr.Hansal Mehta Print Journalist – Ms.Tithiya Sharma Print Journalist - Mr.Shahid Siddiqui
Corporate Citizen KVP 2012	Corporate Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar-Executive - Mr.Frederick G Mendonca Corporate Citizen For Holistic CSR Initiatives- Chairman - Mr.Karan Paul Corporate Citizen For Holistic CSR Initiatives- Initiative Head - Ms.Renu Kakkar
Civil Society Citizen KVP, 2012	Animal Welfare - Mrs. Jyotsana Sharma Mr. Sunish Subramanian Kunju
Civil Society KVP	Wildlife Conservation - Mr.Nirmal U Kulkarni Health - Mr. Arun Nevatia Education - Prof. M.S. Pillai Gender Issues - DR. NAYREEN MOZAM DARUWALLA, Mrs. Hema Deshpande Social Entrepreneurship/Transformation - Mr. Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya Trafficking, - Ms.Hema Bedi Human Rights, 2012 - Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi, Ms.Renu Thakur Women Empowerment - Dr. B.Sanyal Livelihood Generation Mr.Rupen Pattnaik Art And Culture – Mr.Aubrey Aloysius , Mrs.Lorraine Fiona Aloysius
Artistes 4 Change KVP 2012	Mainstream Actress - Dr.Swaroop Rawal Theatre - Mr.Arjun Sajnani Music-Singer - Ms.Rekha Surya Music-Band - ( Mrigya) Mr.Sharat Chandra Srivastava, ( Mrigya) Mr.Gyan Singh, ( Mrigya) Mr.Indraneel Hariharan, ( Mrigya) Mr.Karan Sharma, ( Mrigya) Mr. Rajat Kakkar Dance – Ms. Shallu Jindal
Sportsperson 4 Change KVP, 2012	Mrs.M.C.Mary Kom Mr.Kuldeep Singh Bisht Mr.Ajeet Bajaj
Young Social Entrepreneur KVP, 2012	Dr. Rushi Ghadawala
Kids 4 Change Karmaveer Puraskaar, 2012	Master Arvindh P Natarajan
Student Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar- 2012	Ms.Tanvi Girotra
Karmaveer Puraskaar For Citizen Action	Ms.Pooja Kapur
Professional Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar	Doctor - Dr.Prashant S. Deshmukh Banker- Mr.Bhupinder Singh Kohli Manager - Ms. Nidhi Arora
Art Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar-Entrepreneur	Ms.Payal Khurana
Golden Candle Karmaveer Puraskaar	Sumithra Prasad Gen. Secretary - D.O.R.A.I Foundation (Development. Opportunities. Resources. Access. Insight)life skill counselor, media activist, trainer, parent of a son with special needs. Abhishek Bharadwaj

Karmaveer Puraskaar Noble Laureates, 2011

Award Category	Awardee
Lifetime Achievement Karmaveer Puraskaar,2011	Dr. Kalyan Banerjee
Global Citizen Lifetime Achievement Karmaveer Puraskaar, 2011	Dr. David M. Dror
Global Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar,2011	Duncan Watkinson
Global Artistes 4 Change Karmaveer Puraskaar, 2011	Arzell Papazell Nelson
Global Indian Karmaveer Puraskaar, 2011	Marian B Noronha Asha Glynis D'souza
Real Wealth Creators For The Communities Karmaveer Puraskaar, 2011	Tulashi Ballav Dash Nileema Mishra
Lifelong Fight For Social Justice Through Citizen Action	Sanjay Ghose ( Posthumous)
Government Citizen	Dr. Mahesh Gaur Parimal Rai
Media Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar	Filmmaker On Contemporary Issues - Nila Madhab Panda Author– William Dalrymple Author-Sonia Faleiro/ Television- Nirmala Nair Print Journalist- Radhika Ravindra Raj, Madhu Trehan
Corporate Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar	Corporate Ceo’s Foundation – Chetan Sharma
Civil Society Karmaveer Puraskaar	Disability- Mahantesh Ghativallapa, Kavita Kumar Hiv - Anuapam Kataria Child Rights -Vinayak Lohani Health -Dr. B. Dinesh Baliga, Dr. Shyalaja Education - Safeena Husain Health & Empowerment -Seetha Mahendran, T. Dinesh Kumar Women Empowerment Roshnara Mohanty Socialcommunications & Campaign Strategist - Shankar Ghose Trafficking - Ruchira Gupta Governance- Anupama Jha, Anant Trivedi Social Entrepreneurship/Transformation - Faith Gonsalves, Prof. Dr. R. Ganesan Animal Welfare - Rukmini Sekhar Peace And Harmony - Dr. Parasuraman
Dialogue India-Icongo Karmaveer Puraskaar For Promoting Citizen Action	Anita Bhargava Sanjay Bhargava
Artistes 4 Change Karmaveer Puraskaar-	Mainstream Actress – Gul Panag Theatre- Mahabanoo Kotwal Music for Change: Arzell Papazell Nelson Music - Band - Babush Santana Music - Singer -Vidya Shah
Kids 4 Change Karmaveer Puraskaar	Angadbir Singh Sabherwal
Dare- Icongo Young Social Entrepreneur Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar	Vijendra Shekhawat
Professional Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar	Doctor - Dr. Asish Satav Veterinary Doctor - Dr.Chiro Priyo Mitra Chiro Priyo Mitra Dentist - Dr. Hubert Gomes Bank Officer - Kodakkal Shivaprasad Motivational Speaker - Navin Gulia Teacher - Jaya Mehra
Young Creative Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar	Aseem Asha Usman
Fashion Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar – Entrepreneur	Geeta Puri
Yt-Icongo Karmaveer Puraskaar-Social Transformers	Dr. Sonia Mackwani
Yt-Icongo Karmaveer Puraskaar –Entrepreneurs For Social Justice	Anupam Mittal

Karmaveer Puraskaar Noble Laureates, 2010

Award Category	Awardee
Lifetime Achievement Karmaveer Puraskaar	Anina Joseph Mathew Rajinder Johar
Global Citizen Lifetime Achievement	June Connolly
Global Citizen	Kumi Naidoo Loralee Martha Mae Lee David John Lee
Global Artistes 4 Change	Saskia Laroo
Global Indian	Angeli Kapoor
Real Wealth Creators For The Communities	Rahul Barkataky Lakshmi V. Venkatesan
Lifelong Fight For Social Justice Through Citizen Action	Dr. Chandrakant Puri Sumithra Prasad
Government Citizen	Dr. Manoj Sharma Abha Singh Major General Ian Cardozo
Media Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar	Documentary Maker - Vijay S. Jodha Filmbooth-Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh Short Film Maker – Rahul Chittella Music Videos – Manish Jain Television – Shereen Bhan Print Journalist-Syed Nazakat, Anita Pratap Photo Journalist – Mahesh Bhat
Corporate Executive Citizen	Venkat Changavalli Subha Rajan Tampi
Civil Society Karmaveer Puraskaar	Disability - Akhil Paul, Syed Sallauddin Pasha Community Welfare – Jyothi Raj, M.C. Raj Animal Welfare -Anuradha Sawhney, Pradeep Kumar Nath Education, Health & Empowerement – Dr. Kiran Modi Gender Issues -Harish Sadani Fundraising - Wg. Cdr Sasanka Roy Chaudhary Child Abuse -Pooja Taparia Environment -Bibhu Prasad Mohanty
Nfch-Icongo Communal Harmony	Dr. Atul Krishna
Dialogue India- Promoting Citizen Action	Promod Chawla
Student Citizen	Kush Kalra
Artistes 4 Change Karmaveer Puraskaar	Mainstream Actor – Anupam Kher Music Band – Indian Ocean (band) - Asheem Chakravarty, Susmit Sen, Amit Kilam, Rahul Ram Singer - Susmit Bose, Deepika T.
Kids 4 Change Karmaveer Puraskaar	Pasam Venika Rao
Dare- Icongo Young Social Entrepreneur	Rtination.Com Rahul Gupta Prateek Kumar Rasaal Dwivedi Piyush Bhartiya Kopal Gupta
Professional Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar	Lawyer - Biraja Mahapatra Doctor -Dr. Sunita Dube Advertising - Sachin Yashwant Shigwan Engineer - Dr. Chinny Krishna
Art Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar Artist	Sanjay Austa
Young Creative Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar	Dr. Gaurav Chhabra
Fashion Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar- Designer	Sanjana Jon
Courage Of Conviction Karmaveer Puraskaar	Neerja Bhanot

Karmaveer Puraskaar Noble Laureates, 2009

Award Category	Awardee
Lifetime Achievement	Nirmala Narula
Lifelong Fight for Social Justice Karmaveer Puraskar	Virendar Mohan Trehan
Government Citizen Karmaveer Puraskar	D R Kaarthikeyan Panchayati Raj Vijaytai Prabhakar Patil
Civil Society	Disability - Anjlee Agarwal, Sanjeev Sachdeva HIV - Dr. Chinkholal Thangsing Health - Dr. K. Srinath Reddy Education- Manju Bharat Ram Education Health and Empowerment - Mamoon Akhtar Peace and Harmony - Armando Gonsalves Fundraising - Noshir Dadrawala Community Welfare - Anouradha Bakshi, Khirod Chandra Malick Women Empowerment - Praniti Shinde Social Communication and Campaign Strategist - Sharad Sharma Social entrepreneurship/ transformation - Emmanuel Upputuru, Shalindendra Uniyal Philanthropy- Rohini Nilekani]]
Communal Harmony	Shri Idris Nizami
Global Indian Karmaveer	Kayzad Namdarian Mallika Dutt
Global Citizen	Claudia Ciesla Princess Francoise Lindsay Levin Jitman Basnet
Corporate Citizen	Holistic CSR Initiatives Nakul Anand (CEO) Niranjan Khatri(CSR Head) Holistic Media Initiatives Pradeep Gupta Sub Category of corporate executive Dr. Villoo Morawala Patell Corporate CEO’s Foundation Satya Narayanan
Real Wealth Creators for Communities	Siva Cotipalli
Artist for change	Gautam Ghosh Sub-category of Music Singer Dharmendra Jai Narain
Art Citizens	Isha Singh Ritam Banerjee
Kids for Change	Rijuta Lamba
Sports people for change	Bittoo Sondhi Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla
Professional Citizen	Asim Sarode Sub Category of IT Professional Partho Bhowmick
Media Citizen	Mainstream Maker Onir Filmmaker-contemporary issues - Girish Joshi Short films - Geeta Kumar Singh, Avinash Kumar Singh Documentary - Ridhesh Sejpal Print - Tarun Tejpal Authors - Gregory David Roberts
Young Social Entrepreneur	Joe Winston
Student Citizen	Dhirendra Pratap Singh Jithin C Nedumala
CHAKRA FOR EXCELLENCE	Javed Ahmad Tak Deepak Saha] Nikita Ketkar Rashmi Ranjan Deepak Kumar Sudesh Kumar

Karmaveer Puraskaar Noble Laureates, 2008

Award Category	Awardee
Artistes for Change, Karmaveer Puraskaar Noble Laureates	Mr. Arvind Gaur, theatre director Mrs. Kajol Devgan, film actress Mrs. Lushin Dubey, theatre actress Geeta Chandran, Bharatnatyam Dancer & recipient of the Padma Shri Bobby Cash, Gautam Ghosh and Ritika Sahni,for Music
Media Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar	Umesh Anand and Rita Anand, Print Media Pritish Nandy,Film maker Bhavna Talwar,Filmmaker on contemporary Issues Nitin Das and Akanksha Joshi, Documentary film maker Swati D'Souza, Sahej Mantri, Aalap Deboor and Sheetal Bhan, Short Film makers Vandana Shah,Author Mita kapur,Literary Consultant
Lifetime Achievement Karmaveer Puraskaar	Maj. Gen. Raghubir Singh Pannu
Global Indian Karmveer Puraskaar	Dr. Venkat Pullla and Dr.Sailesh Rao
Real Wealth Creators For The Communities	Mr.Rajendra Joshi and Vipin Sharma
Lifelong Fight for Social Justice Through Citizen Action	Pamela Gale Malhotra
Government Citizen Karmveer Puraskaar	Syeda Hameed
Corporate Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar	Corporate Citizens for Holistic CSR Initiatives- CEO- Ajay Bijli, CSR Head- Deepa Menon Corporate Citizens for Holistic Media Initiatives - Chairman- Indu Jain, Director- Pooran Pandey Corporate CEO's Foundation -Ashok Kurien Corporate Executive Citizen - Meera Sanyal
Civil Society Karmaveer Puraskaar	Disability - Divya Arora HIV – Dr Ashok Rau Community Welfare - T. K. Mathew Fund Raising - Surat Sandhu Education, Health and Empowerment - Shobha Murthy Women Empowerment and Child labour - Nusrat Naqvi Animal Welfare and Environment - Nigel Otter Cancer - Harmala Gupta Care for the Elderly - Sailesh Mishra Social Communications and Campaign Strategist - Meenakshi Madhwani Social Venture Mentoring - Varun Sahni Social Entrepreneurship/Transformation - Rejendra Misra
Student Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar	Inir Pinheiro
Young Social Entrepreneur Citizen	Meghna Agrawal Madhusudan Agrawal
Professional Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar	Madhu Bhatnagar Shrenik Rao
Kids 4 Change	Aradhna Chhachhi Diwakar
Young Creative Citizen	Ambar Prakash

Karmaveer Puraskaar Noble Laureates,March,2007

Category	Awardee
Lifetime Achievement Award for creating real wealth for the community	Dr. Verghese Kurien
Recognition for promoting social responsibility	Mr. Harsh Mander Mr. James Michael Lyngdoh Ms. Anu Aga Mr. Arun Maira Mr. Crispino Lobo & Ms. Marcella D'souza Mr. Vikram Akula

Karmaveer Puraskaar Noble Laureates,26 Nov,2007

Category	Awardee
Lifetime Achievement Karmaveer Puraskaar	Dr. M.S. Swaminathan
Lifelong Fight for Social Justice and Action Karmaveer Puraskaar	Dr. Leo Rebello Mr. Alyque Padamsee
Global Indian Karmaveer Puraskaar	Mr. Pavan Sukhdev
Civil Society Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar	Mr. Nanda Rana, Dr. Latika Rana, Mrs Shanti Raghavan
Professional Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar	Mr. Raj Bhandare
iCONGO-Deakin University Student Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar	Ms. Ishita Chaudhry
iCONGO-Business World Corporate Citizen in CSR Karmaveer Puraskaar	Mrs. Mamta Saikia
iCONGO-Business World Corporate Citizen in IT Karmaveer Puraskaar	Mr. P Sridhar Reddy
iCONGO- Tehelka- CMS Media Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar	Ms. Revathi Mr. Altaf Ahmad
Artistes for Change Karmaveer Puraskaar	Mr. Rahul Bose Mr. Remo Fernandes Ms. Sushma Veer
Kids for Change Karmaveer Puraskaar	Baby Benzy Akhil Akkineni
iCONGO-Exchange 4 Media Young Creative Citizen Karmaveer Puraskaar	Ankur Garg and Vivek Kumar Singh
Sportspeople for Change Karmaveer Puraskaar	Gopichand Pullela, Mahesh Bhupathi and Shvetha Bhupathi
Young Social Entrepreneur Karmaveer Puraskaar	Abhishek Bharadwaj

External links

• KARMAVEER PURASKAAR Official Website
• Right every Wrong Homepage
• iCONGO Homepage
• News story at World Resources Institute
• News story in The Tribune
• Press Release