Dubai teenager bags NRI of Year Award
Honoured for academic excellence, Simran has also led over 75 youth engagement campaigns
ADubai-based Indian teenager, Simran Vedvyas, has bagged the NRI of the Year Award 2017 in Mumbai, India.
Presented by Times Now, ICICI Bank and GIIS (Global Indian International School), the award recognises the achievements of Indians who have reached the pinnacle of success globally.
Simran was raised in Dubai.
According to a press release, Simran who is pursuing her undergraduate honours degree at the University of Toronto, Canada, bagged the award in the Academics Category in the award’s fourth edition.
The entire process of the awards — from nominations to choosing the winners — had a five-tier evaluation process managed by Ernst & Young and an eminent jury.
“Simran is persuasive, ambitious, dependable, an achiever who thoroughly enjoys executing anything with a big impact,” the jury noted.
Achievements
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The youngest recipient of Emirates Women of the Year — Young Achiever for the region, Simran believes that “youth are the future champions”.
At 18, she finds herself continuously self-motivated to “dreaming large and achieving big”. Simran has led over 75 successful youth engagement campaigns through her youth group Synergy.
These include Green Space New Life that involved planting 3,000 trees at landfills across the UAE, and Convoy to Feed that distributed food supplies to nearly 4,000 workers at landfills.
Six academic distinctions
She holds the record of winning six highest national academic distinctions in consecutive years. These include thrice winning the Shaikh Hamdan Award and also thrice the Sharjah Education Award. She has been recognised at home and abroad for her academic and humanitarian achievements.
At 12, Simran was the youngest person from the region to be chosen to carry the Olympic Flame at the London Olympics in 2012.
From more than 25,000 nominations in various award categories, 23 non-resident Indians received the honour.