Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award

Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award

Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award
Award Information
Type	Civilian
Instituted	1992
First awarded	1992
Awarded by	All India Congress Committee
Cash award	Rs. 5 lakh

Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award (English: Rajiv Gandhi National Communal Harmony Award) is an Indian award given for outstanding contribution towards promotion of communal harmony, national integration and peace. The award was instituted by All India Congress Committee of the Indian National Congress Party (INC), in 1992 to commemorate the lasting contribution made by the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, carries a citation and a cash award of Rs. five lakhs. It is given on August 20, the birth anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi, which is celebrated as Sadbhavna Diwas

Recipients

Former recipients of the award include Mother Teresa, Shenai maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan, Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh, Hiteswar Saikia (former Assam Chief Minister) and Subhadra Joshi (jointly), Lata Mangeshkar, Sunil Dutt, Jagan Nath Kaul, Dilip Kumar and author Kapila Vatsyayan, Wahiuddin Khan(Islamic scholar), Kiran Seth(founder of SPIC MACAY) (2011). Other recipients are civil society activists Teesta Setalvad and Harsh Mander (jointly), S N Subbarao, Swami Agnivesh and Madari Moideen (jointly), former President K R Narayanan, Nirmala Deshpande, Hem Dutta (2007), N Radhakrishnan and Gautam Bhai.

Year	Recipients	Notes
1996	Lata Mangeshkar	singer
1998	Sunil Dutt	Peace activist, politician
2000	Kapila Vatsyayan	Scholar
2003	S. N. Subba Rao	Peace activist
2004	Swami Agnivesh	Social activist
2006	Nirmala Deshpande	Social activist
2007	Hem Dutta	Social activist
2008	N Radhakrishnan	Social activist
2009	Gautam Bhai	social activist
2010	Wahiduddin Khan	Islamic scholar, peace activist
2011	SPIC MACAY	Promotes Indian classical music and culture among the youth
2012	D. R. Mehta	Work through Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti, Jaipur