Congratulations to the MP colleagues who will be conferred the Sansad Ratna Awards. May they keep enriching parliamentary proceedings with their rich insights. https://t.co/IqMZmLfC1l
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) February 22, 2023
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets Sansad Ratna Awardees 2023
Monday, 20 February 2023
13th Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2023 - Awardees List - Press Releaase by Prime Point Foundation
Press Release
The Sansad Ratna Awardees for 2023
13 MPs, Two Parliamentary Committees and One Veteran to be Honoured
New Delhi, 20th Feb 2023: The Jury Committee of eminent Parliamentarians and civil society, chaired by Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal (Hon’ble MoS, Parliamentary Affairs) and Co-Chaired by Shri T S Krishnamurthy (Former Chief Election Commissioner of India) has nominated eight MPs from Lok Sabha and five from Rajya Sabha for the Sansad Ratna Awards 2023. In addition, two Departmentally Related Standing Committees (DRSC) and a veteran and distinguished leader has also been nominated under the special awards category.
Lok Sabha
The Jury Committee has nominated (1) Shri Bidyut Baran Mahato (BJP, Jharkhand), (2) Dr. Sukanta Majumdar (BJP, West Bengal), (3) Shri Kuldeep Rai Sharma (INC, Andaman Nicobar Islands), (4) Dr Heena Vijayakumar Gavit (BJP, Maharashtra), (5) Shri Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury (INC, West Bengal), (6) Shri Gopal Chinayya Shetty (BJP, Maharashtra), (7) Shri Sudhir Gupta (BJP, Madhya Pradesh) , and (8) Dr. Amol Ramsing Kolhe (NCP, Maharashtra) for ‘Sansad Ratna Awards 2023’ for their performance in the 17th Lok Sabha under various categories.
These nominations are based on the cumulative performance in Questions, private members bills and initiated debates of the members from the beginning of 17th Lok Sabha until the end of Winter Session 2022 . The performance data of the members has been sourced from data provided by PRS India, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha Secretariat.
Rajya Sabha
Dr. John Brittas (CPI-M, Kerala), Dr. Manoj Kumar Jha (RJD, Bihar), Smt. Fauzia Tahseen Ahmed Khan (NCP, Maharashtra) have been nominated for their performances in Rajya Sabha in 2022 under the ‘Sitting Members’ category. Shri Vishambhar Prasad Nishad (Samajwadi Party, UP) and Smt. Chhaya Verma (INC, Chhattisgarh) have been nominated for the Award under the ‘Rajya Sabha Members Retired in 2022’ category for their outstanding performance during their full term in Rajya Sabha.
Standing Committees
The Departmentally Related Standing Committees (DRSC) in Parliament have been performing exceedingly well and silently contributing their lot to parliamentary democracy. The Prime Point Foundation and eMagazine PreSense are honouring the Standing committees since the last six years, based on the subjects selected, sittings and reports presented. The Jury Committee has selected this time one Lok Sabha Committee and one Rajya Sabha Committee for the Award.
The Finance Committee (Lok Sabha Committee - Chairman – Shri Jayant Sinha, BJP, Jharkhand) and Transport, Tourism and Culture Committee (Rajya Sabha Committee - Chairman – Shri V. Vijayasai Reddy, YSR Congress, Andhra Pradesh) are nominated for Awards for their outstanding cumulative performance from the beginning of the 17th Lok Sabha until the end of Winter Session of 2022.
Lifetime Achievement Award
In 2022, the Prime Point Foundation and PreSense introduced a new category “Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Lifetime Achievement Award” to honour veteran leaders for their contribution to Indian politics, the society and the people. The Jury Committee has nominated Shri T K Rangarajan, (Former Rajya Sabha MP for two terms and a Senior CPIM Leader) for the Award.
All the above Awards will be presented on 25th March 2023 at New Delhi. These Awards are being presented on behalf of the Civil Society.
About Sansad Ratna Award
The Sansad Ratna Awards were instituted at the suggestion of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam to honour top performing Parliamentarians. He himself launched the first edition of the Award function in 2010 at Chennai. Till now, 90 top performing Parliamentarians have been honoured and all of them have received the awards in person. The 13th Edition of the award function will be held on Saturday, 25th March 2023 at New Delhi. The 13th Edition will be making history as it crosses the century of awards mark. Mr. K. Srinivasan is the Founder Chairman and Ms. Priyadharshni Rahul is the President of the Sansad Ratna Awards Committee.
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Note to Editors: For further details, please contact: K. Srinivasan (Founder and Chairman, Prime Point Foundation and Sansad Ratna Awards Committee – +91 91766 50273 @ Chennai) or
Priyadarshini Rahul (Advocate Supreme Court, Trustee Secretary, Prime Point Foundation and President, Sansad Ratna Awards Committee - +91 99712 48869 @ Delhi)
The complete list of awardees, including the Awards category and the list6 of Jury Committee Members is annexed.
Monday, 12 December 2022
Kambar Medu, the Birthplace of Kavi chakrvarthy Kamban at Therazhandur under the protection of ASI remains as a open public toilet – A Himalayan disrespect to the greatest Tamil poet
11 Dec
2022
Hon’ble
MOS for Parliamentary Affairs and Culture
Government
of India
New
Delhi
Dear
Sir
This has reference to the telephonic conversation, I had with you on 10th December 2022 evening about the current position of “Kambar Medu”, the birth place of Kavi Chakravarthy Kamban at Therazhandur in Tamil Nadu. Therazhandur is my native village too. Hence I am taking personal interest.
Kavi Chakravarthy Kamban has written “Kamba Ramayana”, based on Valmiki Ramayana 1200 years ago in 12000 Tamil hymns. He is being celebrated by the Tamil Scholars and Asthikas as “Kavi Chakravarthy”. Even our Hon’ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi used to quote from the verses of Kamban in his speeches.
This place ‘Kambar Medu’, is in the possession of ASI. Unfortunately, this great holy place is not being maintained by the ASI properly. Though the entire area is fenced, due to lack of maintenance and care, one will find lot of bush in the area.
Due to the slums around this monumental place, this place is being used as a public toilet. (Though it is fenced, one gate is left open). On one side, Hon’ble PM celebrates the glory of Tamil literature and language at Varanasi as ‘Kasi Sangamam’. On the other side, ASI shames the birth place of the Kavi Chakravarthy by improper maintenance allowing it as public toilet.
A few decades back, one great Tamil scholar Shri U. Ve. Swaminatha Iyer, who compiled lot of Tamil literature from the palm leaves, visited the Kambar Medu. He crawled the place, to avoid his feet being placed on the holy place. I am quoting this as a sample to indicate how the scholars value this spot.
As
requested by me last evening, I will be grateful if you plan a visit to the
Kambar Medu during January 2023, after the Parliament Session and guide the
officials as to how we can improve the situation.
I attach herewith a few photos of Kambar Medu (photographed today) to give you the realistic picture. I also attach herewith the photos of Kali temple and Ganapathy temple worshipped by Kavi chakrvarthy Kamban.
I am at Chennai and I can be contacted for any coordination any time. My mobile and WhatsApp number is 9176650273.
Yours faithfully,
K. Srinivasan
Monday, 28 November 2022
Constitution Day 2022 + Launch of eBook containing the Parliamentary speeches of Supriya Sule
Prime Point Foundation and Sansad Ratna Awards Committee organised Constitution Day celebration through Zoom on 25th November 2022.
Dr. M. Veerappa Moily, Former Chief Minister of Karnataka and former Union Minister was the Chief Guest. Shri T S Krishnamurthy, Former Chief Election Commissioner of India presided over the event.
During the event, an eBook containing the Parliamentary speeches of Smt. Supriya Sule, MP, in 16th Lok Sabha was released by Dr. M. Veerappa Moily.
Prime Point Srinivasan gave the welcome address. Priyadharshni Rahul anchored the event.
The eBook can be downloaded from the link http://www.prpoint.com/publication/supriyasule16.pdf
Photos can be downloaded from the link
The event can be watched through this link
Sunday, 9 October 2022
Two eBooks containing the cover stories published in 2020 and 2021 in the eMagazine PreSense launched
Please read the ebooks and watch the launch proceedings (links given below)
Prime Point Foundation has brought out two eBooks containing the #CoverStories published in eMagazine PreSense in 2020 and 2021. Shri Dhananjay Mahadik, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) released them through Zoom sitting at Kolhapur on 5th October 2022. Shri T S Krishnamurthy, Former Chief Election Commissioner of India presided over the event.
The launch proceedings of the ebook, including the inspiring speeches of Shri Dhananjay Mahadik MP and Shri T S Krishnamurthy may be watched from the link.
These two ebooks may be downloaded from the following links.
PreSenses Speaks - Cover Stories 2020
http://www.prpoint.com/publication/coverstories2020.pdf
PreSense Speaks - Cover Stories 2021
http://www.prpoint.com/publication/coverstories2021.pdf
Please watch the launch event proceedings in YouTube (Inspiring speeches of Shri Dhananjay Mahadik MP and Shri T S Krishnamurthy)
Monday, 5 July 2021
eBooks of select Parliamentary speeches of outstanding MPs released
eBooks
of select Parliamentary speeches of outstanding MPs released
Media
should highlight positive aspects of developments in the country – Dr M
Veerappa Moily
New Delhi, July 5, 2021
In a virtual meeting organized
by Prime Point Foundation to mark their
21st Anniversary, two eBooks of select speeches of former MPs Dr S K Karventhan and S S Ramasubbu,
were released by former MOS Home Hansraj
Ahir and former Karnataka Chief Minister Dr Veerappa Moily, who was also a
union minister of important portfolios in the Congress government. Arjun Ram Meghwal, MoS Parliamentary Affairs
was also present. Dr S K Kharventhan and S S Ramasubbu were the outstanding
Parliamentarians and recipients of Sansad Ratna Awards of 14th and
15th Lok Sabha respectively.
Dr Veerappa Moily appealed to Media and MPs to highlight the positive aspects of developments
in the country that made people feel secure and safe. In this context, he said the Prime Point Foundation
was doing yeoman service by recognizing the good work done by MPs and awarding
them the Sansad Ratna awards for their good performance in Parliament,
Dr Moily appreciated the
work of both MPs Karventhan and Ramasubbu,
who had done great work for their constituencies and the e books would
serve as role models for the young generation of MPs and political science
students.
Mr Hansraj Ahir, while releasing the ebook containing the speeches
of Dr Kharventhan , said the foundation had done great work by bringing out and
highlighting the works of MPs in the House. He said that Parliament provided ample
opportunities for any MP to raise the constituency issues and get them
resolved.
Arjun Ram Meghwal, in whose presence these ebooks were released
suggested that Prime Point Foundation can bring out a volume containing the
select speeches of 75 great leaders from the first Lok Sabha till the current
one, by 15th August 2022, to
mark the celebration of 75th Independence Day.
K. Srinivasan, Founder Chairman of Prime Point Foundation agreed
to the suggestion of Arjun Ram Meghwal and also said that they would bring out
8 ebooks containing the select Parliamentary speeches of Anandrao Adsul (Shiv
Sena), Hansraj Ahir (BJP), Arjun Ram Meghwal (BJP), Bhartruhari Mahtab (BJD),
Shrirang Appa Barne (Shiv Sena), Supriya Sule (NCP), Dr Veerappa Moily (Cong)
and N K Premachandran (RSP) next month on the Independence Day. All these 8 Parliamentarians are Sansad Ratna
Awardees for their outstanding performance.
Sansad
Ratna Awards are presented to top performing Parliamentarians every year after
the Budget Session, based on the performance data provided by PRS India and Lok
Sabha Secretariat. The Award was instituted on the suggestion given by Dr APJ
Abdul Kalam, who himself launched the first Award event in May 2010. Till
2021, 75 Awards have been presented. The awardees are selected by a Jury
committee of eminent Parliamentarians through a transparent process.
The
Jury Committee for the current 17th Lok Sabha is headed by Shri Arjun Ram
Meghwal (MoS, Parliamentary Affairs) with Shri N K Premachandran (Kerala) and
Shri Shrirang Appa Barne (Maharashtra) as members. The Jury Committee
Members themselves are the outstanding Parliamentarians and Sansad Ratna
Awardees.
Sansad
Ratna Awards and Next Gen Political Leaders are the initiatives of Prime Point
Foundation to honour the outstanding Parliamentarians and also to develop
future political leader.
The
ebooks can be downloaded from www.sansadratna.in
Dr S K
Kharventhan : http://www.prpoint.com/publication/skk14.pdf
S S
Ramasubbu : http://www.prpoint.com/publication/ssr15.pdf
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eBooks containing select Parliamentary speeches of outstanding Parliamentarians to be launched - Press Release
CURTAIN RAISER PRESS RELEASE
e-BOOKS ON SELECT PARLIAMENTARY SPEECHES OF OUTSTANDING PARLIMENTARIANS TO BE RELEASED ON
5TH JULY
July 04, 2021:
Dr M Veerappa Moily (Former Chief Minister of Karnataka and Union
Minister) and Shri Hansraj Ahir (Former Minister of State, Home Affairs, Govt.
of India) will be releasing, two e-books on 5th July 2021, through a Zoom meeting of distinguished
audience. The e-books contain select Parliamentary speeches of Dr S K
Kharventhan (14th Lok Sabha) and Shri S S Ramasubbu (15th Lok Sabha), both
outstanding Parliamentarians and Sansad Ratna Awardees. They will be launching
the e-books to celebrate the 21st Anniversary of Prime Point Foundation, which instituted the Sansad
Ratna Awards 12 years ago.
Sansad Ratna Awards are presented to top performing Parliamentarians
every year after the Budget Session, based on the performance data provided by
PRS India and Lok Sabha Secretariat. The Award was instituted on the suggestion
given by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, who himself launched the first Award event in May
2010. Till 2021, 75 Awards have been presented. The awardees are selected
by a Jury committee of eminent Parliamentarians through a transparent process.
The Jury Committee for the current 17th Lok Sabha is headed by Shri
Arjun Ram Meghwal (MoS, Parliamentary Affairs) with Shri N K Premachandran
(Kerala) and Shri Shrirang Appa Barne (Maharashtra) as members. The Jury
Committee Members themselves are the outstanding Parliamentarians and Sansad
Ratna Awardees.
Sansad Ratna Awards and Next Gen Political Leaders are the initiatives
of Prime Point Foundation to honour the outstanding Parliamentarians and also
to develop future political leader.
Prime Point Foundation plans to release e-books containing the select Parliamentary
speeches of all Sansad Ratna Awardees in the coming months. On 15th August
2021, 8 such e-books are proposed to be
released to commemorate the 75th Independence Day anniversary celebrations.
These e-books will be very useful for political
students and emerging political leaders including Parliamentarians and
Legislators. The e-books will be
distributed free.
Media representatives, who want
to witness and cover the Zoom event on 5th July 2021 at 5 pm may kindly send a
WhatsApp message to Shri Sridhar Raj (9884556655) or Bhawanesh Deora
(9385363537) for getting the Zoom link of
the event.
Ends
For further details on Prime Point Foundation and
Sansad Ratna Awards, please contact Prime Point Srinivasan (Founder and
Chairman) : Mobile No 9176650273.
www.primepointfoundation.in
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