Somnath, Sreedharan bag SIES National Eminence Award

Delhi Metro rail chief Elattuvalapil Sreedharan and former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee were honoured with 12th SIES Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati National Eminence awards at a function in Mumbai.

Delhi Metro rail chief Elattuvalapil Sreedharan and former Lok Sabha Speaker were honoured with the 12th SIES Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati National Eminence awards at a function in Mumbai.

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Other recipients of the award included Chandrayaan Director Mylaswamy Annadurai and Sanskrit scholar and Jnanpith award winner Satya Vrat Shastri.

The awards, constituted by the South Indian Education Society (SIES) are annually presented to eminent personalities for their lifetime contribution in the fields of public leadership community leadership, science and technology in memory of late Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham Shankaracharya Chandrasekharendra Saraswati.

While Somnath Chatterjee was honoured for public leadership, Sreedharan was presented the award for community leadership; Annadurai for his contribution to science and technology while Shastri received the award for global promotion activities of Sanskrit.

Chatterjee could not be present in person to receive the award last night as doctors had advised him rest, the SIES said.

However, the leading parliamentarian in his message, which was read out at the function held in Shanmukhananda Hall, said he would be utilising the cash component of the award in enriching the library and the text book bank of the Girls'college at Bolpur in West Bengal, where most of the students are from rural areas.