PRAVASI BHARATIYA SAMMAN

The 'Pravasi Bharatiya Samman' is an award constituted by the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs in conjunction with the ''Pravasi Bharatiya Divas'', to honor exceptional and meritorious contribution in their chosen field/profession. The award is given by the President of India.

Contents

Awardees for 2007

Awardees for 2006

Awardees for 2005

Awardees for 2004

See also

References

Awardees for 2007

Country	Name	Description	Field of Merit
	Gopal Raju	journalist, founder-editor India Abroad	Media
	Lord Diljit Rana	Hon. Consul Belfast, Managing Director Andras House	Business
	Dave Sukhdip Singh Hayer		Public Affairs
	Dr. Madhavan Anirudhan	President Essen Nutrition	Business
	Billy Nair	Member of Parliament, ANC South Africa	Public Affairs
	Pheroze Nowrojee	Advocate, Human Rights Activist	Community Affairs
	Nirmal K. Sinha	Community Leader, Significant contribution to fostering friendship between India and USA	Community Affairs
	Tan Sri Dato K.R. Somasundram	Executive Chairman, National Land Finance Co-operative Society	Public Affairs
	Kenneth S. Benjamin	Founder and chairman of the Guardsman Group	Business
	Sibabrata Roy	President Indo-German Society Hamburg, Promoter of Indian Culture in Germany	Community Affairs
	Syed M. Salahuddin	Managing Director, ETA-Ascon Group	Business
	Dr. Bavaguthu R. Shetty	Businessman Pharmaceuticals, Chairman Board of Governors Abu Dhabi Indian School	Business
	Sir Moti Tikaram	Justice, National President Fiji World Jurist Association	Public Affairs
	Dr. Abdool Magid Karim Vakil	President Comunidade Islamica de Lisboa	Business
	Dr. P. Jayaraman	Writer, Promoter of Hindi language and literature	Culture

Awardees for 2006

Country	Name	Description
	Shivnath Rai Bajaj
	Eliahu Bezale
	Abdool Raouf Bundhun
	Pratima Kale
	Majid Uddin Kazi
	C.K. Menon
	Gulam Kaderbhai Noon
	Sudhir Parikh
	Yesu Persaud
	V. Ramadoss
	Sisupal Rambharos
	Niranjan S. Shah
	Rusy M. Shroff
	Jean-Paul Virapoullé
	Fareed Zakaria	journalist, editor of ''Newsweek International''

Awardees for 2005

Country	Name	Description
	M. Arunachalam	President, Asia Pacific India Chambers of Commerce
	Jagdish Bhagwati	Indian American economist
	Amina Cachalia	Women's activist, politician
	J.K. Chande	Chancellor, International Medical and Technological University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
	Alokeranjan Dasgupta	Poet, philosopher, academic
	Ahmed Kathrada	South African anti-apartheid activist
	Sunil Khilnani	Political scientist, writer
	Basdeo Panday	Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
	Bhikhu Chotalal Parekh	member, British House of Lords
	Sam Pitroda	Indian American entrepreneur and Indian communications policymaker
	Vikram Seth	Novelist and poet
	M. Night Shyamalan	Indian American film screenwriter, director and producer
	Vijay Singh	Indo-Fijian golfer
	Dr. Sant Singh Virmani	Rice scientist
	Yusuffali M.A.	Owner of EMKE Group (Abu Dhabi based Indian congleramate)

Awardees for 2004

Country	Name	Description
	Dipak Jain	Dean, Kellogg School of Management
	late Kalpana Chawla	Astronaut
	Justice Ahmed Moosa Ebrahim
	Bharrat Jagdeo	President of Guyana
	Mahendra Pal Chaudhry	Fmr. Prime Minister of Fiji
	Dr. Marian Chisti
	Lord Meghnad Desai	Economist, Writer, Labour politician
	Narinder Singh Kapany
	Shashi Tharoor	Writer
	Sukhi Turner	Fmr. Mayor of Dunedin, New Zealand

See also

★ Pravasi Bharatiya Divas

★ Non-resident Indian and Person of Indian Origin

References

★ Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards

★ Official Press release referring to the 2007 awards