Press Note 2006
Bharat Asmita National Award’s Presented to
Naveen Jindal, R.R.Patil, Barkha Dutta & Anil Gupta.

Pune, Feb.3: Bharat Asmita National Award’s Presented at Pune today. The Best Young Parliament award was presented to Mr. Navin Jindal, Member of Parliament (Bharat Asmita Janapratinidhi Shreshta ). A special award is presented to Shri. R.R. Patil, Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra State (Bharat Asmita Janapratinidhi Shreshtha). Ms. Barkha Dutta, Senior Editor, NDTV Network (Bharat Asmita Janajagaran Shreshtha). Prof. Dr. Anil K. Gupta, IIM, Ahmedabad (Bharat Asmita Aacharya Shreshtha). These awards were presented the auspicious hands of Mr. Budhacharan, President, Bodhisatva Foundation, Shantivan Ashram, Thailand.

Prof. Dr. Vishwanath D. Karad, Founder, Director of MAEER’s MIT Pune.
Prof. Rahul V. Karad the Convener of Bharat Asmita National Award Committee.
Mr. Digvijay Singh, The Ex-Minister For Forgein Affairs, Padmashri Dr. Vijay Bhatkar, Mr. Suresh Kalmadi (MP), Dr. Suresh Ghaisas, Dr. Mansukh Wani, and World Famous scientist were present on this Occasion.

Mr. Budhacharan said, “India is a holy place. Many of the saints and sages were born in this place and have awakened the people about spiritualism. Therefore a common Indian man also is of good thoughts. Obviously the professors, journalists and politicizations are impressed by this atmosphere. I am sure, India will guide the whole world in future.”

Digvijay Singh said, “I know three of the awardees very closely. And hence I can gurantee how judiciously these awards are given. In the olden days the prince used to go rushis for learning. Today the situation is exactly apposite. Crores of people are poor and illiterate. Those who are educated don’t get the jobs. This is because of the lack of planning.I hope the young generation will change the scene. And the awardness will be their leaders.”

While accepting the award young parliamentarian Mr. Naveen  Jindal said, “ I fought
In the judiciary for the right of a common man to raise national flag on his house. And
Ultimately the Goddess of Justice gave the opinion on my side. I feel institute MIT, has
Presented me this award for the same. Now the young generation should not stop only by raising the flag. But should take inspiration of nation building from it.”

Prof. Anil Gupta said, “The top planning people cannot think that a common villager also has ability to think. In fact, a villager is really a creative person. We should discover and invent new things but we should produce new commodities of high quality at economical price. The creativity of a common man should be promoted.”

Mr.R.R.Patil said, “Good people should enter in politics. The Maharashtra Institute of Technology has promoted fair practices in politics by honouring me by this award. The State of Maharashtra is safest in the country. The city of Mumbai is safest of its kind in the whole world. The credit goes to common man who is a gentleman by nature. Of course, the co-operation given by the administration is equality important,”

Mr. Imtiaz Jaleel while accepting the award on behalf of Ms. Barkha Dutta said,“Barkha Dutta is very much pleased by the award and hopes that it has promoted the duties of press. Beacause of unavoidable circumstances she could not attend the function. Yet she has promised to visit MIT School of Government in near future.”

Dr.Wani, Expressed his thoughts at this time.
Padmashri Dr. Vijay Bhatkar explained, “Prof. Rahul Karad is the originator of the concept of awards. And we people unanimously accepted it. The Committee was headed by Mr. T.N.Seshan. It included Dr. Raghunath Mashelkar, Dr. Yashpal, Smt.Ritu Nanda. Prof. Vishwanath Karad and myself. I hope the young generation will take inspiration by the great deeds of the awardees.”

Prof. Dr. Vishwanath D.Karad said, “ Our country is a knowledge based society. And we are running the institute according to the thoughts of Swami Vivekanand. We feel that, Saint Dynaneshwar and saint Tukaram symbolically represent the saints and sages of the world. I am sure, the awardees are basically of good nature and serving the humanity by their acts.”

Prof. Rahul V. Karad expressed the vote of thanks. The compeering was done by Prof. Sudhir Rane and Smt. Jayashree Phadnavis.

The programme was started by World Peace Prayer and was concluded by the National Anthem.