TORONTO : Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards-2023

TORONTO : The Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award (PBSA) is the highest honour conferred on overseas Indians. PBSA is conferred by the Hon’ble President of India as part of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention on Non-Resident Indians, Persons of Indian Origin or an organization/institution established and run by the Non-Resident Indians or Persons of Indian Origin in recognition of their outstanding achievements both in India and abroad.

The 17th edition of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) Convention is scheduled to be held from 8–10 January 2023 at Indore, Madhya Pradesh. The Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards will be conferred by the Hon’ble President of India at the PBD Convention in the valedictory session of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas celebrations.

A Jury-cum-Awards Committee, with Hon’ble Vice-President as the Chairman and Hon’ble External Affairs Minister as the Vice-Chair and other distinguished members from various walks of life considered the nominations for the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards, 2023 and unanimously selected the awardees.
The awardees represent the excellence achieved by our diaspora in various fields. Following is the list of Awardees recommended by Jury-cum-Awards Committee for conferment of the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award 2023:
Sr. No. Name Country Field
⦁ 1 Prof. Jagadish Chennupati : Australia /Science & Technology/ Education
⦁ 2 Prof. Sanjeev Mehta : Bhutan/ Education
⦁ 3 Prof. Dilip Loundo : Brazil /Art & Culture/Education
⦁ 4 Dr. Alexander Maliakel John : Brunei Darussalam/Medicine
⦁ 5 Dr. Vaikuntam Iyer Lakshmanan : Canada /Community /Welfare
⦁ 6 Mr. Joginder Singh Nijjar : Croatia /Art & Culture/Education
⦁ 7 Prof. Ramjee Prasad : Denmark /Information Technology
⦁ 8 Dr. Kannan Ambalam : Ethiopia Community/ Welfare
⦁ 9 Dr. Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay : Germany /Community Welfare/Medicine
⦁ 10 H.E. Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali : Guyana /Politics/Community Welfare
⦁ 11 Ms. Reena Vinod Pushkarna : Israel /Business/Community Welfare
⦁ 12 Dr. Maqsooda Sarfi Shiotani : Japan /Education
⦁ 13 Dr. Rajagopal : Mexico /Education
⦁ 14 Mr. Amit Kailash Chandra Lath : Poland /Business/Community Welfare
⦁ 15 Mr. Parmanand Sukhumal Daswani : Republic of Congo /Community Welfare
⦁ 16 Mr. Piyush Gupta : Singapore /Business
⦁ 17 Mr. Mohanlal Hira : South Africa /Community Welfare
⦁ 18 Mr. Sanjaykumar Shivabhai Patel : South Sudan /Business/Community Welfare
⦁ 19 Mr. Sivakumar Nadesan : Sri Lanka /Community Welfare
⦁ 20 Dr. Dewanchandrebhose Sharman : Suriname /Community Welfare
⦁ 21 Dr. Archana Sharma : Switzerland /Science & Technology
⦁ 22 Justice Frank Arthur :Seepersad /Trinidad & Tobago Community Welfare/Education
⦁ 23 Mr. Siddharth Balachandran : UAE /Business/Community Welfare
⦁ 24 Mr. Chandrakant Babubhai Patel : UK / Media
⦁ 25 Dr. Darshan Singh Dhaliwal : USA /Business/Community Welfare
⦁ 26 Mr. Rajesh Subramaniam : USA /Business
⦁ 27 Mr. Ashok Kumar Tiwary : Uzbekistan /Business