Jamnalal Bajaj Award is an Indian award, for promoting Gandhian values, community service and social development.Varma, p. 87 Established in 1978, by the Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation of Bajaj Group, it is given annually in four categories, and usually presented by the President, Vice president, Prime Minister of India or a leading figure. The foundation currently headed by Rahul Bajaj, was created in 1977, in the memory of group founder, philanthropist and a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi, Jamnalal Bajaj. The award ceremony takes place on his birth anniversary, 4 November.
Awards The award comprises a citation, a trophy and a cheque of Rs Ten lakh each. It is given in four categories, namely: Application of Science and Technology for Rural development, established in 1978. Outstanding contribution for the Development and Welfare of Women and Children, established in 1980 in memory of Janaki Devi Bajaj. International Award for promoting Gandhian values outside India, which is given to an individual of foreign nationality, established in 1988 on the birth centenary of Jamnalal Bajaj.
To commemorate the birth centenary of Mr. Jamnalal Bajaj, the Foundation presented a special award to Dr. Nelson Mandela in 1990.Special Award to Dr. Nelson Mandela
List of awardees YearConstructive WorkScience & TechnologyWomen & Child WelfareInternational1978Jugatram DaveSatish Chandra Das Gupta1979Sarla Devi & Murlidhar Devidas Amte (Baba Amte)Jayant Shamrao Patil1980Gandhi Niketan AshramAnil SadgopalJayashri Raiji & Kamalabai Hospet1981Amalprava DasA. M. M. Murugappa ChettiarRamadevi Choudhury1982Gokulbhai Daulatram BhattPrembhaiTaraben Mashruwala1983Tagaduru Ramachandra RaoManibhai DesaiPushpaben Mehta1984Popatlal Ramchandra ShahMohan Narhari ParikhGaura Devi1985T.S. AvinashilingamSanjit RoyAnutai Wagh1986Sunderlal BahugunaVilas B. SalunkeVasanti S. Roy1987Natwar ThakkarSunit Dhanaji BondeAnnapragada C. Krishna Rao1988S. Jagannathan and Krishnammal JagannathanIshwarbhai PatelMalati Devi ChoudhuriPierre Parodi1989K. Janardanan PillaiT. G. K. MenonIndirabai HalbeDanilo Dolci1990Tirath RamS. A. DabholkarRatan ShastriA. T. Ariyaratne1991Dwarko SundaraniS. Krishnamurthy MirmiraRadha Bahin BhattCharles Walker1992Thakurdas BangK. VishwanathanShalini MogheHomer A. Jack1993Vichitra Narain SharmaDinkarrao G. PawarKantaben and Harivilasben ShahJohan Galtung1994L. N. GopalaswamiV. S. AggarwalShanti DeviGedong Bagus Oka1995Kashinath TrivediG. MuniratnamVimla BahugunaKamala1996Manubhai PancholiS. S. KalbagIndumati ParikhAdolfo De Obieta1997R. K. PatilS. S. KatagihallimathVinoba NiketanYoung Seek Choue1998Acharya RamamurtiDevendra KumarRajammal P. DevadasKumari Jharna Dhara Chowdhury1999Narayan DesaiAjoy Kumar BasuSaraswathi GoraJoseph Rotblat2000Somdutt VedalankarBhaskar SaveVidya DeviDesmond Tutu2001Sisir SanyalAnil K. RajvanshiRehmat Sultan FazelbhoySatish Kumar2002Siddharaj DhaddaArunkumar DaveChitra NaikGeorge Willoughby2003Rabindra Nath UpadhyayVinayak PatilAlice GargDr. Mary E. King2004Radhakrishna BajajPrabhakar Shankar ThakurSarojini VaradappanMarie Thoeger2005P. Gopinathan NairRajendra SinghArunaben Shankarprasad DesaiDaisaku Ikeda2006S.N. SubbaraoAnil Prakash JoshiRani Abhay BangIsmail Serageldin2007Yashpal M. MittalAnand Dinkar KarveAshoka GuptaMichael Nagler2008Biswanath PattnaikTushar KanjilalPhoolbasan YadavLouis Campana2009LavanamAyyappa MasagiJaya ArunachalamCharles Peter Dougherty2010Chunibhai VaidyaChewang NorphelShakuntaladevi ChoudharyLia Diskin2011Ramesh Bhaiya and Vimla BahanAnupam MishraShobhana RanadeAgus Indra Udayana 2012Jayant Mathkar Kalyan PaulGlenn D. Paige Nighat Shafi2013G. V. Subba RaoSnehlata NathVidhya DasJean-Marie Muller2014Surendra KoulagiRam Kumar SinghChennupati VidayaSulak Sivaraksa2015Man Singh RawatPerumal VivekanandanAnna FerrerMinoru Kasai2016Mohan Hirabai HiralalB. V. NimbkarDr. N. Manga DeviRached Ghannouchi2017Shashi TyagiJan Swasthya SahyogPraveen NairZiad Medoukh2018Dhoom Singh NegiRupal DesaiPrasanna BhandariClayborne Carson2019Bhawani Shanker KusumMohammad Imran Khan MewatiShaheen MistriSonia Deotto2020Cancelled due to corona outbreak2021Dharampal SainiLal SinghLucy KurienDavid H. Albert2022Nilesh DesaiMansukhbhai PrajapatiSophia ShaikOgarit Younan Walid Slaybi2023Regi George and Lalitha RegiRamalakshmi DattaSudha VargheseRaha Naba Kumar
See also List of awards for contributions to society
References
External links Jamnalal Bajaj Award at the Jamnalal Bajaj Award Foundation