NAGPUR: Marwadi Foundation conferred Bharat Ratna Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Smruti Award 2018 on former chairman of University Grants Commission (UGC) Sukhadeo Thorat at a programme held at Dr Ambedkar Sabhagruh, Deekshabhoomi, on Friday.
Former union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde was once the chief guest. Former vice-chancellor of Panjabrao Deshmukh Krushi Vidyapeeth Sharad Nimbalkar, social employee Girish Gandhi, MLC Jogendra Kawade, deputy registrar of Nagpur University Anil Hirekhan and secretary of Marwadi Foundation Sudhir Baheti have been seated on the dais.
Thorat, who was once born in Amravati, is an economist. His contribution to social, schooling and economic fields has been extraordinary. He is a writer of popularity too. For all his contribution, he was once awarded via the Marwadi Foundation. The award carried a cheque of Rs5 lakh at the side of a shawl and a memento.
Accepting the award, Thorat praised the foundation for recognizing the contribution of other people to social trade without reference to caste.
He spoke about how he faced discrimination at a tender age in class when Dalit youngsters have been made to sit down separately from the higher class scholars.
This observe was once stopped when RPI chief RS Gavai came to the varsity with policemen and hostile the shabby remedy meted out to Dalit scholars, Thorat stated. The government then built a faculty within the village where all have been handled as equals, he added.
People are nonetheless discriminated in opposition to on the caste lines, Thorat stated. “When I changed into chairman of UGC, some other people requested if they are going to need to paintings underneath a Dalit. This showed that even after assuming the necessary submit on merit, other people nonetheless seen it with a casteist mentality,” he added.
Shinde requested the youths to take inspiration from Thorat who, even after dealing with many difficulties, lived a a success life and led to a transformation within the society. He appealed to not let the lines in their hands be the guiding mild in life. Instead, he urged them to paintings exhausting to succeed in their objectives.
Former union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde was once the chief guest. Former vice-chancellor of Panjabrao Deshmukh Krushi Vidyapeeth Sharad Nimbalkar, social employee Girish Gandhi, MLC Jogendra Kawade, deputy registrar of Nagpur University Anil Hirekhan and secretary of Marwadi Foundation Sudhir Baheti have been seated on the dais.
Thorat, who was once born in Amravati, is an economist. His contribution to social, schooling and economic fields has been extraordinary. He is a writer of popularity too. For all his contribution, he was once awarded via the Marwadi Foundation. The award carried a cheque of Rs5 lakh at the side of a shawl and a memento.
Accepting the award, Thorat praised the foundation for recognizing the contribution of other people to social trade without reference to caste.
He spoke about how he faced discrimination at a tender age in class when Dalit youngsters have been made to sit down separately from the higher class scholars.
This observe was once stopped when RPI chief RS Gavai came to the varsity with policemen and hostile the shabby remedy meted out to Dalit scholars, Thorat stated. The government then built a faculty within the village where all have been handled as equals, he added.
People are nonetheless discriminated in opposition to on the caste lines, Thorat stated. “When I changed into chairman of UGC, some other people requested if they are going to need to paintings underneath a Dalit. This showed that even after assuming the necessary submit on merit, other people nonetheless seen it with a casteist mentality,” he added.
Shinde requested the youths to take inspiration from Thorat who, even after dealing with many difficulties, lived a a success life and led to a transformation within the society. He appealed to not let the lines in their hands be the guiding mild in life. Instead, he urged them to paintings exhausting to succeed in their objectives.
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