President Kovind honours 30 NRIs

VARANASI: President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday presented Pravasi Bharatiya Samman to 30 NRIs who excelled in different fields, at the concluding ceremony of Pravasi Bharatiya Divas.

Kovind presented the award to Nihal Singh Agar (Australia) for social service, Rajinder Nath Khazanchi (Bhutan) for civil engineering, and Ramesh Chotai (Canada) and Amit Waikar (China) for business.

Other awardees included Malini Ranganathan (France) for academics and arts, Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha (Guyana) for community service, Bitthal Das Maheshwari (Italy) for business, Guna Sekhar Muppuri (Jamaica) for medical science and entrepreneurship, PV Sambasiva Rao (Kenya) for technology, Prakash Madhavdas Heda (Kenya) for medical science, Rajpal Tyagi (Kuwait) for architecture, Banwarilal Satya Narayan Goenka (Myanmar) for business management, Bhavdeep Singh Dhillon (New Zealand) for business, Himanshu Gulati (Norway) for public service, Vinodan Verambally Thazhikuniyil (Oman) for business, Jagdeshwar Rao Maddukuri (Poland) for entrepreneurship, Purnendu Chandra Tiwary (Qatar) for training and simulation, Anil Sooklal (South Africa) for diplomacy, Swami Saradaprabhananda (South Africa) for community service, Rajendra Kumar Joshi (Switzerland) for science, Shamim Parkar Khan (Tanzania) for public service, Girish Pant (UAE) for business, Surender Singh Kandhari (UAE) for business, Zulekha Daud (UAE) for medical science and business, Rajesh Chaplot (Uganda) for chartered accountancy, Chandra Shekhar Mishra (USA) for science, Gita Gopinath (USA) for academics, and Gitesh Jayantilal Desai (USA) for structural engineering and Kiran Chhotubhai Patel (USA) for medical science.