3RD RAMA SAHARIA MEMORIAL AWARDS: PRESENTATIONS THAT DISHED ENTIRE NATION'S DIVERSITY 
AVINASH SINGH
They represented the entire nation! Cutting across all barriers of caste, colour and creed they truly depicted the adage: Unity in diversity!
Eight top performing women in various fields from higher education, to excellence in media, social work, para sport, yoga, innovation, defiance and a lifetime dedicated to mentally and physically challenged were honoured at a simple yet elegant function at NEA Auditorium in Noida. They had hit the pinnacle against all odds, going up the ladder hard way.
The occasion was the 3rd Dr Rama Saharia Memorial Awards organised by MBKM Foundation.
Adorning the stage were such doyens, old hands and veterans as Mr Subodh Kant Sahay, Mr Anil Shastri (both former Union Ministers of State), Mr Harkesh Bahadur (prominent Parliamentarians of yesteryears) and Dr Queeny Pradhan (an authority on legal n women's history).
The three-hour stupendous session was chaired by none other than Dr Yogendra Narain, IAS (Retd), former Secretary General, Rajya Sabha, Secretary Defence and Surface Transport. Foundation patron R S Atroley joined them on the dais conducted with aplomb by Dr Ashok Srivastava. Prof Avinash Singh had the honour to introduce the eight proud winners with technical and logistics support coming from Jagdish Gautam. Mainstay, goes without saying, came from Prof Pradeep Kumar Mathur.
The winners were: Prof Manjinder Kaur (education - Patiala), Ms NaiNa Gautam (podcasting on sustainability, London/New Delhi), Ms Urmal Munjwani (ashtanga yoga, Mysore/ Raipur), Ms Garima Joshi (para sports, Ranikhet/training at SAI for Para Asiad), Ms Sukhdeep Kaur (Lifetime Achievement Award, Jamshedpur), Ms Atlanta Mahanta (innovation, Gandhinagar), Ms Aayushi Karanwal (defiance against adversities, Guwahati) and Ms Tabassum Khan (women empowerment, Ghaziabad).
Recipients were lustily cheered with biggestet aplause being reserved reserved for Ms Garima Joshi and Sukhdeep Kaur.
The presenters to the awardees included Prof Mohd Rihan (authority on solar technology), Mr Prabhloch Singh (human rights activist), Mr Rajiv Tikoo (celebrated journalist, green energies and sustainibity campaigner), Mr Avtar Singh (Cyclist and Spl Olympics trainer), Mohd Salim Engineer (E&C expert), Dr Salim Khan (authority on neutron chemistry), Dr Parul Mehra (media guru), Adv Sudhanshu Choudhari and Adv Atiqul Rehman (both Senior lawyers, SC) Param Grewal, S N S.N. Sinha , and Nitin Goyal (celebrated photography trio),
Mr Vinesh Malik and Mr Arvind Sukhija (corporate trainers and mentors), Mr Amitabh Srivastava Mr Swaran Swaran Singh Danewalia, and Mr Sachin Arora (journalists and anchors), Adv Roohi Mukherjee and digital journalist Khurram Habib.
The occasion was used to release 'The Endeavour', a 24-page newsletter of the Foundation. The program started with a soothing and divine-like rendition on flute 
by Dr Vikas Rajput.
by Dr Vikas Rajput.Vote of Thanks was presented by Adv. C K. Srivastava, Vice-Chairman of the Foundation.
Dr Neena Singla, Ms Shaheen Parshad and Sakshi Chauhan were missed because the Foundation has no policy of giving awards in absentia. Shotlisted in various categories they expressed their inability to make it.
Prof Pradeep Mathur and Mr Rajeev Mathur, the Chairman and Secretary General, talked about the journey of the Foundation thus far and plans to organise a national-level journalist conclave, as suggested by Mr Subodh Kant Sahay, besides the Manmohan Swaroop Memorial Lecture shortly.
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