Sansad Ratna Awards 2022 presented to Parliamentarians

[GS Paper 2 – Indian Polity and Constitution]

Many former chief Ministers and other parliamentarians were conferred with lifetime achievement awards at the 12th edition of the Sansad Ratna Awards under various categories.

The 11 MPs who have been selected for the Sansad Ratna Award include eight from the Lok Sabha and three from the Rajya Sabha. Supriya Sule of NCP, NK of Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP). Premachandran and Shiv Sena’s Srirang Appa Barne were awarded the Sansad Vishisht Ratna Award for their continued excellence.

About Sansad Ratna Awards

• Sansad Ratna Award (“Gem of Parliament ”) was established in 2010 by the Prime Point Foundation and E-magazine PreSense to honor top-performing members of the Indian Parliament.

• The Sansad Ratna Awards Committee was instituted in 2009 to promote the late President Doctor Abdul Kalam’s vision to celebrate the success of outstanding parliamentarians.

• The awards are given on behalf of civil society through a transparent selection process by a jury committee of eminent parliamentarians based on the data on various performance parameters.

The Award Committee

• A committee headed by Arjun Ram Meghwal, MoS, parliamentary Affairs, and co-chaired by T.S. Krishnamurthy, former Chief Election Commissioner of India had nominated the MPs for Sansad Ratna Awards 2022 for their performance in the current Parliament till the end of the winter session in 2021.

• Jury committee will select the awardees based on the performance of members during the five years of 17th Lok Sabha This award is given once in 5 years at the end of the 17th Lok Sabha.

• The awards were instituted on the suggestion of former president late APJ Abdul Kalam, to honor the top performing parliamentarians.

About PreSense

• The eMagazine PreSense was started in March 2006 on the suggestion of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam to promote positive journalism. Till January 2022, the Foundation has published 179 editions.

• This is a digital- only magazine. Digests, containing select articles upto 150 editions of the eMagazine, have so far been published.

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