Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards given

for President's Secretariat | Date - 09-01-2006


President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam gave away Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards to 15 recipients at the valedictory function of the 4th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas-2006 here today. They are: Shri Shivnath Rai Bajaj (Thailand), Shri Eliahu Bezale (Israel), Shri Abdool Raouf Bundhun (Mauritius), Smt. Pratima Kale, (Philppines), Dr. Majid Uddin Kazi (Saudi Arabia), Shri C.K. Menon (Qatar), Sir Gulam Kaderbhai Noon (UK), Dr. Sudhir Parikh (USA), Shri Yesu Persaud (Guyana), Dr. V. Ramadoss (Seychelles), Shri Sisupal Rambharos (South Africa), Shri Niranjan S. Shah (USA), Shri Rusy M. Shroff (Hong Kong), Shri Jean-Paul Virapoulle (France) and Shri Fareed Zakaria (USA).

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