Laxminarayan Kajegadde of Sullia receives National Youth Award from President

Laxminarayan Kajegadde of Sullia receives National Youth Award from President

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, July 5, 2013: Lakshminarayana Kajegadde of Sullia received the National Youth Award for development activities and social sercive for 2011-12 from President Pranab Mukharjee at the Rashtrapathi Bhavan in New Delhi on Thursday. The minister of youth affairs and sports, Jitendra Singh and several other dignitaries were present on the occasion.

President conferred the Award on 27 individuals and a West Bengal-based organisation.  National Youth Awards, instituted in the year 1985 are conferred on youth each year who have demonstrably excelled in different fields of youth development and social service.

 

Laxminarayan of Kajagadde a member of Kanakamajalu Yuvaka Mandal, Sullia Youth Unity Society’s president and also the president of  Belli Mandala Sullia Unit. Laxminarayan’s service to the youth through the organisations Yuvaka Mandal and Belli Mandal were the reasons for his consideration.

The award carries a silver medal, a certificate and a cash prize of Rs 40,000 in case of individual awardee and Rs 2 lakh for any voluntary organisation.

List of National Youth Award Winners 2001-12: M Ramulu ( Andhra Pradesh), Aluwala Vishnu (Andhra Pradesh), Tilling Yam (Arunachal Pradesh), Pardeep Raj (physically challenged, Delhi), Chanchal Aggarwal (Delhi), Girish Kumar (Delhi), Malisa Zemira Simoes (Goa), Suman (Haryana), Ruchi Kaushik (Haryana), Ashok Kumar (Haryana), Gurmeet Kaur ( Himachal Pradesh), Besar Dass Harnot (Himachal Pradesh), Kiran Kumar Sharma (Jammu and Kashmir), Lakshminarayana Kajegadde (Karnataka), B Hanumanthappa (Karnataka), Fasal Varis (Kerala), Tara Usman Mulla (Maharashtra), Jagdale Shantanu Ramdas (Maharashtra), Soraishanm Taruni Devi (Manipur), Kitboklang Nongphlang (Meghalaya), M Tejeswar (Odisha), Gangadhar Behara (Odisha), Dhyanananda Panda (Odisha), Khusmeet Kaur Bains (Punjab), Gurnam Singh Sidhu (Punjab), Ladu Lal Jat (Rajasthan), Gulab Chand Salvi (Rajashtan).

Name of the Organisation: Bhavishya Educational and Charitable Society, West Bengal.