Friday, December 6, 2013

Indira Gandhi Peace Prize and Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration

Indira Gandhi Peace Prize
  • Known as Indira Gandhi Prize or Indira Gandhi Peace Prize or Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development
  • Prestigious award accorded annually by India to individuals or organizations in recognition of creative efforts toward promoting international peace, development and a new international economic order; ensuring that scientific discoveries are used for the larger good of humanity, and enlarging the scope of freedom. 
  • The prize carries a cash award of 25 lakh Indian rupees and a citation.
  • First awarded in 1986
  • 2011 - Ela Bhatt (Founder of SEWA - SEWA - Self-Employed Women's Association of India, a trade union for poor, self-employed women workers in India, founded in 1972)
  • 2012 - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (President of Liberia)
  • 2013 - Angela Merkel (Chancellor of Germany)
Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration
  • Prestigious award accorded annually by the Indian National Congress 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 is given on the Martyrdom Day i.e. 31 October
  • The Award carries an amount of Rs. 5 lakh in cash and a citation.
  • First awarded in 1985
  • 2012 - Gulzar
  • 2013 - M.S. Swaminathan