Shalin Manav Ratna Award – 2016
Sushri Tejalben Amin (India)
Sushri Tejalben Amin (India)
Sushri Tejalben Amin is a successful entrepreneur, a sensitive multi-talented woman personifying excellence and unflinching self-confidence. She has successfully attained distinguished and inspiring milestones in the field of school education in Vadodara. With a strong foundation of these achievements Sushri Tejalben Amin has initiated a new venture in higher education with a promising start. A versatile personality and a connoisseur of Art, with brilliant achievement in the field of Indian classical dance, Sushri Tejalben Amin has been a strong and generous promoter of art and artists. Having successfully led the Vadodara Marathon, Sushri Tejalben Amin has made all of us proud by putting Vadodara on the global map in a remarkably short span of time. A team-builder, who has been conferred with several honours and awards, Sushri Tejalben Amin is a youth icon and an inspiration for ambitious girls and their families.
Shri Amrishbhai (India)
Even after more than six decades of India’s independence, the challenges pertaining to water scarcity, energy deficiency, inaccessibility of quality education, inadequacy of health services, unemployment, ecological disequilibrium and credibility of law and order remain acute problems in many parts of our country. Yet, thanks to the visionary leadership and inclusive development-oriented endeavours of Shriman Amrishbhai Rasiklal Patel, that Shirpur, a small town in Dhulia district of Maharashtra is today in the forefront of multi-dimensional and integrated progress. The compassionate and harmonious leadership of this noble Gujarati Patidar from Charotar, ensuring systematic hard-work and clean management, helped realize an enhanced quality of good life for common citizens by providing access to water for drinking and irrigation, housing, electricity, concrete roads, quality primary and professional education, employment, co-operative initiatives, fiscal facilities and health services during the last three decades in Shirpur. Shri Amrishbhai’s leadership has steered the “Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal” and the “Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies” to achieve national stature and prestige as institutions of excellence. The virtues of simplicity, value-commitment and transparent administrative brilliance that adorn the grandeur of Shri Amrishbhai’s persona presents an inspirational ideal amongst distinguished personalities dedicated to social upliftment.
Shri Dr Harshadbhai M Desai (India)
Dr Harshadbhai Desai has contributed immensely in transforming the lives of hundreds of thousands of young aspirants through a visionary provision of science, technology and engineering education and training for over five decades. His contributions in independent India’s nation-building process is unique in many ways. Dr Desai’s achievements as a best teacher, an insightful adiministrator, a technology-enabled institution builder, a visionary academic and a sensitively brilliant multi-talented Vice-Chancellor are impressive as well as inspiring. The brilliance of these distinguished achievements attain a sublime state with Dr Desai’s intrinsic understanding and implementation of Indian cultural ethos and values. A large-hearted Dr Desai leads numerous national institutions in various capacities, while securing cooperation with a diversity of international institutions and corporate houses. Dr Harshadbhai Desai is a modern-age Vidyarishi, whose thought, utterances and conduct epitomise devotion and humility.
Shri Pinakinbhai Pathak (USA)
With a rare harmony of righteous hard work, Indian values, skillful insight and generous devotion-filled lifeview, Shri Pinakinbhai has attained multi-dimensional success in the United States during the past three decades. However, his fulfilling achievements in promoting Indian culture, music and civilizational values are unique attainments. Shri Pinakinbhai has supported every service activity, which strives to uplift human life onto the spiritual path. His enterprising leadership has been a great source of strength in nurturing and propagating the rich traditions of Indian music across the world. Shri Pinakinbhai has always strived to harmonize and balance the achievement of material prosperity with prosperity of values. Through his selfless dedication and generous support for the nurture and promotion of Indian culture, Shri Pinakinbhai has enhanced the pride of Gujarat and India in the world.
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