International Prestigious Awards
The Sardar Patel Award and Sardar Ratna organized annually by the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Foundation in loving memory of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Sardar Patel Award instituted was on 131st Birth Anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, 31 October, 2006 and Sardar Ratna on 60th Republic Day of India, 26 January, 2009. The tenet of both awards is to promote his ideals well- known philosophy for the National Integration of the country to Non-Resident Indian, Person of Indian Origin, awarded to those distinguished persons, who have significantly contributed towards nation building and/or towards technological and scientific advancement in a particular field of eminence, in which they are the well known experts.
8th International Prestigious Sardar Patel Award-2013 conferred to Air Vice-Marshal S.N. Roy Choudary (Retd.), Founder Director of Gas Turbine Research Establishment, Bangalore for his Excellence in field of "Social Justice" by Hon'ble Chief Guest Shri Balmiki Prasad Singh, Former Governor of Sikkim at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, New Delhi, India on 8 February, 2014.
8th International Prestigious Sardar Patel Award-2013 conferred to Brig. S.P. Gorthi, MD, DM, Professor & HOD of Neurology, Army Hospital Research & Referral, Delhi Cantonment, New Delhi for his Excellence in field of “Neuroscience Research” by Hon'ble Chief Guest Shri Balmiki Prasad Singh, Former Governor of Sikkim at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, New Delhi, India on 8 February, 2014.
8th International Prestigious Sardar Patel Award-2013 conferred to Prof. Kamlesh Khunti, MBChB, PhD, MD, FRCGP, DCH, DRCOG, Professor of Primary Care Diabetes and Vascular Medicine, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom for his Excellence in field of “Medical Research” by Hon'ble Chief Guest Shri Balmiki Prasad Singh, Former Governor of Sikkim at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, New Delhi, India on 8 February, 2014.
