Latest Banking jobs   »   Awards and recognition

Recent Awards and Recognitions in India 2022: List of Important Awards

Recent in News updated on 30th December 2022

Prabhu Chandra Mishra has been awarded Atal Samman Award for his excellence in field of science & research.

The Wharton-QS Reimagine Education Awards, also known as “Oscar of Education” gave significant recognition to the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M)

Noted Cuban social worker and human rights advocate, Aleida Guevara has been selected for the first KR Gouri Amma national award.

Indian cyclist Swasti Singh has been honoured with the prestigious 30th Ekalabya Puraskar for the year 2022. The award is instituted by IMFA’s charitable wing, IMPaCT.

Kura Pokkhir Shunye Ura (The Golden Wings of Watercocks) of Bangladesh and Upon Entry of Spain won the Best Film Award at the 28th Kolkata International Film Festival.

Beth Mead has been awarded the BBC Sports Personality of the Year for 2022 as she was the player of the tournament and top scorer at Euro 2022.

Professor Thalappil Pradeep, Indian Scientist, India Institute of Technology, Madras received VinFuture special Prize  in Hanoi.

NHPC Limited has been awarded as the winner of the ‘Best Globally Competitive Power Company of India-Hydropower and Renewable Energy Sector’ at PRAKASHmay.

Sudeep & Shobhana won Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2021-22.

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has won the prestigious GRIHA Exemplary Performance Award 2022, a top national level Green Building Award.

Rohini Nayyar prize: Sethrichem Sangtam, who helped triple the incomes of 1,200 marginalised farmers in Eastern Nagaland, was awarded the first Rohini Nayyar prize.

Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs has won the Platinum Icon in the Digital India Awards 2022 for their initiative “DataSmart Cities: Empowering Cities through Data”. Under Smart Cities Mission.

National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) won the coveted IEI (Institution of Engineers, India) Industry Excellence Award 2022 in Chennai.

PETA India’s 2022: Bollywood actress, Sonakshi Sinha has been awarded PETA India’s 2022 Person of the Year title.

Mrs World 2022: India’s Sargam Koushal created history as she finally won the Mrs World 2022 title after 21 years while competing for India in the pageant.

SS Rajamouli-directed period movie ‘RRR’ has been nominated in two categories at the Golden Globe Awards to be held in January 2023. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) has nominated ‘RRR’ in the Best Picture: Non-English language and Best Original Song Naatu Naatu.

SpiceJet has been awarded the ‘Safety Performer of the Year’ award by GMR Delhi Airport Awards.

In various competitive exams like Bank Po, Bank Clerk, Regulatory bodies: RBI Grade B, SEBI Grade A, SSC CGL, State PCS exam; recent awards and recognitions are asked. This article is regularly updated so that students can have all the awards at one place. Bookmark it for revision purposes.

 

Recent Awards and Recognitions in India 2022: List of Important Awards in Hindi

Awards list

Awardee Award Given by Important facts
December 2022
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Wharton-QS Reimagine Education Awards   Another name :Oscars for Education

silver prize in the ‘Best Online Program

NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning), a joint initiative of IITs and IISc, won the Gold in the ‘Lifelong Learning category.’

 

Aleida Guevara KR Gouri Amma national award  KR Gouri Foundation Cuban Human Right activist
Swasti Singh 30th Ekalabya Puraskar IMFA’s charitable wing: Impact  
Kura Pokkhir Shunye Ura (The Golden Wings of Watercocks) of Bangladesh and Upon Entry of Spain Best Film Award 28th Kolkata International Film Festival.  
Beth Mead BBC Sports Personality of the Year for 2022 BBC Sports Footballer
Professor Thalappil Pradeep VinFuture special Prize VinFuture Foundation IIT Madras professor
UIDAI Building GRIHA Exemplary Performance Award 2022  
Sudeep and Shobhna Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2021-22. Sudeep Sen for his genre and formbender Anthropocene : Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation (Pippa Rann Books & Media, 2021) and Shobhana Kumar for her haibun collection ‘A Sky Full of Bucket Lists’ (Red River, 2021
DataSmart Cities: Empowering Cities through Data(MoHUA) Platinum Icon in the Digital India Awards 2022 Ministry of Communication  
NHPC Limited Best Globally Competitive Power Company of India-Hydropower and Renewable Energy Sector at Prakashmay
Sonakshi Sinha PETA India’s 2022 Person of the Year title. PETA  
National Mineral Development Corporation IEI (Institution of Engineers, India) Industry Excellence Award 2022  
Spice jet Safety Performer of the Year’ award GMR Delhi Airport Awards.  
Sethrichem Sangtam, Rohini Nayyar prize: 1st edition
Sargam Koushal Mrs world 2022 From India
Prabhu Chandra Mishra Atal Samman Award   For science and research
Venkaiah Naidu 25th Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi National Eminence Award (SIES) Award by SIES instituted in 1998 in memory of late seer of Kanchi, Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi Other Awardees in various categories:

  • Public Leadership:  Arif Mohammed Khan Governor of Kerala
  • Community Leadership: Ratan Tata, an eminent industrialist
  • Science and Technology:  Dr Marthanda Varma Sankaran Valianathan, renowned cardiologist and Padma Vibhushan awardee
  • Science and Technology: Prof Ajay Kumar Sood, Scientific Advisor to the Government of India
  • Spiritual Leadership: Vishakha Hari Harikatha artiste
Jammu Kashmir Ayushman Bharat health account ID generation Ministry of Health 2nd prize in the category for Teleconsultation.
Krishna Vavilala Presidential Lifetime Achievement (PLA) Award USA Government
President Volodymyr Zelensky 2022 person of the year Times Magazine
4 awardees Jamnalal Bajaj Award Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation
  • Constructive Works: Nilesh Desai
  • Application of Science and Technology for Rural Development: Mansukhbhai Prajapati
  • Development and Welfare of Women and Children: Sophia Saik
  • International Award for Promoting Gandhian Values outside India: Dr Ogirat Younan and Dr Walid Slyabi of Lebanon
Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP) Local
Adaptation Champions Awards
Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) at the COP27
in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.Maharashtra based organization
Veena Nair Prime Minister’s Prize for
Excellence in Science Teaching
Australian Government She is ViewBank College’s Head of Technology
and STEAM (science, technology, engineering,
arts and maths,) project leader.
Goblin Mode Oxford dictionaries word  2022    “slang term” means “a type of behaviour which is unapologetically selfindulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy
C.N. Manjunath,  Krishnappa G. and S. Shadakshari Nadoja Award Kannada University in Hampi.  
To honour diplomats- 5 Awardees Diwali- Power of One’/ ‘Oscars of Diplomacy
Diwali Foundation USA Inc.
  • Names of the winner
  • Former Permanent Representative of Georgia to the UN Kaha Imnadze,
  • Former Permanent Representative of Grenada to the UN Keisha McGuire,
  • Former Permanent Representative of Bulgaria to the UN Georgi Velikov Panayotov,
  • Former Permanent Representative of Benin to the UN Jean-Claude do Rego,
  • Former Chairman, Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives Eliot Lance Engel.
Canara Bank ‘Banker’s Bank of the Year Award 2022’  The Banker Magazine, Financial Times Group, United Kingdom Banker’s Bank of the Year Award 2022’’ for India segment at the Global Banking Summit held in London.
Greenhouse-in-a-box ( Eco Oscars) Earthshot Prize 2022, 2nd edition: prize : one million pounds Founded by Prince William  5 winners

  • Mukuru Clean Stoves tackles clean air in Kenya
  • Kheyti is protecting and restoring nature in India
  • The Queensland Indigenous Women Rangers Network is helping revive Australia’s oceans
  • Notpla’s circular solution to waste in the U.K.
  • The 44.01 Project in Oman is turning CO2 into rock
SS Rajamouli Best Director Award for RRR at the New York Film Critics Circle 2022 New York Film Critics Circle
  • Todd Field’s Tar :Best Picture of the year,
  • Best Actress : Cate Blanchett’s
  • Colin Farrell won Best Actor
South Korea’s Mina Sue Choi Miss Earth 2022  Based in Philippines  22nd Edition, 

She inherited from Destiny Wagner of Belize.

The current Elemental Queens are:

  • Sheridan Mortlock: Miss Earth Air from Australia
  • Nadeen Ayoub: Miss Earth Water from Palestine
  • Andrea Aguilera: Miss Earth Fire from Colombia
Avani Lekhara Para Sports Person FICCI  
Sarkar Talwar Lifetime Achievement of the Year award FICCI India sporta and Turf Awards
November 2022      
Iranian film Nargesi  ICFT-UNESCO Gandhi Medal IFFI Payam Eskandari is the Director
128 artist Sangeet Natak Akademi Award Sangeet Natak Akademi  cash prize of Rs 1 lakh, Akademi fellows will get Rs 3 lakh each and both will also receive a tamrapatra and angavastram
Agantuk Movie ’Prasad DI award IFFI Goa  
  National Gopal Ratna Award Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Fisheries, and Dairying on milk day 
e-Panchayat Mission Mode Project of Ministry of Panchayati Raj
GOLD Award, National Awards for e-Governance DAR&PG  under the category “Excellence in Government Process Re-engineering for Digital Transformation” of the National Awards for e-Governance
Ms. Naina Dhakad Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Awards 2021:

Land Adventure

Ministry of Youth
Shri Shubham Dhananjay Vanmali Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Awards 2021:

Water Adventure

Ministry of Youth
Group Captain Kunwar Bhawani Singh Samyal Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Awards 2021: Lifetime Achievement Ministry of Youth
Ravi Kumar Sagar Dr. Abdul Kalam Seva Puraskar Vande Bharat Foundation and LeadIndia Foundation CEO of RK’S INNO group
Matrix Business Services India Pvt. Ltd. Partner of the Year 2022 by one of the world’s most valuable companies, Procter & Gamble (P&G)
Purnima Devi Barman Champions of the Earth UNEP The other honourees include Arcenciel (Lebanon); Constantino (Tino) Aucca Chutas (Peru); Sir Partha Dasgupta of the United Kingdom and Cecile Bibiane Ndjebet (Cameroon)
Danish Manzoor Bhat Jaipur Foot USA’s first Global Humanitarian Award
39 Schools Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar Ministry of Education Rs.60,000 cash prize

Write answers in the comment section

  1. Write awards given to Volodymyr Zelensky.
  2. Name the highest award given by the Indian Government.

Other posts

 

General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 25th November_70.1C

General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 25th November_80.1

Leave a comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *