Honorary Director of IIPM Think Tank, Dr. Arindam Chaudhuri along with the Former Deans of FMS Dr. M. P. Gupta & Dr. J. K. Mitra honouring Internationally Acclaimed Artist Shri Jatin Das with the 2023 Bharatiya Manavata Vikas Puraskar
This year’s edition of Bharatiya Manavata Vikas Puraskar (BMVP) witnessed a grand confluence of two very important occasions.
Established on August 12th 1973, it marked the celebration of India’s pioneering private B-School, IIPM’s Golden Jubilee. In addition, selected by a committee of twenty-four jury members, the power-packed morning also witnessed the conferring of BMVP awards for 2023. These stalwarts were felicitated with the BMVP award for their stellar work as humanitarian agents of art, culture, fearlessness and social change.
The Chief Guest and first Awardee of the morning was renowned Indian painter, sculptor and muralist Jatin Das. The Guests of Honour for the day and the next awardees were renowned Journalist Rajdeep Sardesai and the face of Independent Media Abhisar Sharma— needless to say, for their honest and fearless Journalism. Renowned Doctors Dinesh Khullar and Rommel Tickoo were also honoured for their highest commitment to Medical Profession. The final two awardees were Sujo John and Sujoy Prasad Chatterjee for the tremendous social impact they have been creating with their work in the areas of Human Trafficking and Art & Culture.
Abhisar Sharma and Rajdeep Sardesai with the 2023 Bharatiya Manavata Vikas Puraskar
The other Guests of Honour were the Former Dean of FMS Dr. J. K. Mitra and Amit Sawhney, MD of Nippon Global, Spain.
The event also witnessed CMOs and CXOs from India Inc. getting the 4Ps B&M, Business & Marketing Excellence Awards and HR Trainers and Heads being honoured with the Human Factor HR Excellence Awards.
The annual Dr. N. R. Chatterjee Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award for The Most Influential B-School Dean of India went to Dr. M.P. Gupta, Former Dean of FMS, Delhi. The annual Dr. Malay Chaudhuri Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award for Impacting Lives Through Education went to Mrs. Ratna Chaudhuri the Founder Registrar of IIPM.
The 4Ps B&M Business & Marketing Excellence awards for best CMOs CXOs and Business Leadership were also given to Viresh Verma of White Pepper, Arijeet Dutta of Impact News India , Salesh Grover and Prem Dewan from Corneliani, Amit Oberoi from Interarch Building Products, Anupam Sah from CP Plus, Navin Thakur from Vascon Engineers, Prabhash Agrawal from PBS Oils, Pushp Raj Singh from JK Group and to Riki Chakraborty from Rupa & Co.
The Human Factor Award for Corporate Training & HR Leadership was given to Supreet Singh popularly known as Author Sherry , Dr. Abhishek Srivastav, Kalyan and Neetu Parashar.
More than 60 IIPM Alumni were awarded the Power Alumni Awards for their exceptional journey.
About BMVP:
Power Brands: Bharatiya Manavata Vikas Puraskar is a distinctive initiative of Dr. Malay Chaudhuri, the Founder Director of The Indian Institute of Planning and Management and the Founder Chairman of the Selection Committee of this award. Dr. Chaudhuri’s endeavour to encourage a humane world order through this humanitarian award is now in its 10th year. It is a unique stage of some of the most powerful and humane minds from across the nation. BMVP is a platform for leaders from the sphere of Politics, Business, Academics and Entertainment.
Past winners of the most esteemed recipients of the Bharatiya Manavata Vikas Puraskar (BMVP) since the inception of the award in 2010 have been:
Pranab Mukherjee, Former President of India
Sakshi Joshi, Independent Media
Anu Aga (Corporate Leader & Philanthropist)
Mansi Pradhan (Women Rights Activist & Author)
Arunachalam Muruganantham (Social Entrepreneur & Women Rights Activist)
Dr. Sandeep Pandey (Teacher, Educationist, Social & Human Rights Activist)
Belinda Annie Irene Wright, OBE (Tiger Conservationist & Wildlife Campaigner)
Laxmi Agarwal ( Acid Attack Survivor, Social Activist & Women Rights Activist)
Nafisa Ali Sodhi (Actor & Human Rights Activist, extensively working with HIV/AIDS patients from poor families)
Maneka Gandhi (Politician, Author, Animal & Human Rights Activist)
Smile Foundation (Especially working towards empowerment of underprivileged children, youth & women)
Anita Ahuja (Social entrepreneur – working on eradication of plastic waste, environmentalist, writer, artist & designer)
Shabana Azmi (Actor, Humanist, Human Rights & Peace Activist)
Nandita Das (Actor, Director, Author, Public Speaker, Columnist & Human Rights Activist)
Dr. Bibek Debroy (Economist, Academician & Educationist)
Dr. Pravin Patkar (Founder-Director of Prerana, an NGO that works in the red-light districts of Mumbai to protect children vulnerable to commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking)
Dr. Uma Tuli (Founder of Amar Jyoti Charitable Trust, an academician, an educationist, a social worker, a rehabilitation professional and a sports woman)
Pramila Nesargi (Noted Advocate, an educationist, and well-known women rights activist)
Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi (Dalit Rights Activist & founding member of People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights, a Varanasi-based NGO)
Ashutosh (Eminent Indian Journalist, Author, Political Activist & Founder of Satya Hindi YouTube Channel)
Yuvraj Singh (International Cricketer & Founder of the Yuvraj Singh Foundation, an NGO that especially works with Cancer survivors)
Flavia Agnes (co-founder of MAJLIS, an NGO which provides quality legal services to women and children)
Bezwada Wilson (National Convenor and founding member of the Safai Karamchari Andolan, an anti human scavenging campaign all across the country)
Give India (India’s largest and most trustworthy giving platform for donors)
V R Krishna Iyer (former justice of Supreme Court)
Ilina Sen (academician/social activist)
Kiran Bedi (social activist)
T N Seshan (former Chief Election Commissioner of India)
Dr. Ashok Sanjay Guha (academician)
Swaminathan Anklesaria Aiyar (columnist/journalist)
Gurcharan Das (columnist)
Mahasveta Devi (author / social activist)
Medha Patkar (social activist)
Belur Sramajibi Hospital Samity (healthcare foundation)
Sunanda Sanyal (academician/political thinker)
Pradip Bose (political ideologue)
