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Only 122 awards to honour over 1 billion Indians!

London : India with over one billion population must increase the number of awards it gives every year as its talented citizen ‘deserve to be recognised’, a eminent UK-based Indian-origin academician has said. "India has wonderful talented people and they deserve to be recognised," Lord Professor Bhiku ....Read more

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Indian Annual Award By: Pessimistic Indian | Tuesday , 17 Feb '09 2:28:39 AM Reply | Forward I think the system is more conservative and less transparent. They will wait to the point where the recepient can't care about it. Notice when they gave Bharat Ratna to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, 50 years after he died.

Annual AwardsBy: jai Singh | Monday , 16 Feb '09 14:37:22 PM Reply | Forward The system of giving awards in India has degenerated into a farce of sorts.There are a lot of outstanding personalities who more than deserve to be honoured,there are an equal number of undeserving people for whom excuses have to be sought to bring them on the honours list. The truth of the matter is that there are not many deserving candidates around and it makes little sense to give awards as political favours. Let us be honest.If India had a lot deserving people it would be living on a different level.

How many awards per politicianBy: Satish Kumar | Monday , 16 Feb '09 9:19:02 AM Reply | Forward Awards must not be judged according to the population but by the number of politicians. It is a well known fact that all the awards at national and state levels are decided by politicians (and are often given to people who may not even be remotely connected with the field for which the award is given). Therefore, seeing the number of politicians, the number looks justified.

Only 122 awards to honour over 1 billion IndiansBy: Harry | Sunday , 15 Feb '09 22:46:35 PM Reply | Forward Indian system is not designed for excellence, it is designed for mediocre. People are discouraged from becoming crative or articulate their views. This is reflected in presentation of Indian cases by Indian diplomats world over. Compared to Indian diplomats Pakistani diplomats are able to articulate their country's position with finesse. so it is not surprising that only 122 awards have been received by Indians.

AwardsBy: J.M.Manchanda | Sunday , 15 Feb '09 21:10:36 PM Reply | Forward More awards may be needed to recognize the good work being done by Indians but the manner of choosing the awardees also needs to be looked into. For instance, most awards meant to be given to teachers are actually grabbed by principals of schools who rarely if ever enter a classroom. The casual way of nominating peopel results in awards being returned for the flimiest of reasons.Noted comunist returned his award to protest an attack on Golden temple while retired armyment recently returned their awards over dissatisfaction with pension. National awards must be given to those who value them and would not trade them for monetary gains.

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