Padma Shri Awardees From Jain Commuity

Year	Name	Stream	State
1968	Devchand Chaggan Lal Shah	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
1968	Smt. Sharan Rani Backliwal	Arts	Delhi
1965	Smt. Mrinalini Sarabhai	Arts	Gujarat
1963	Shri Sumant Kishore Jain	Other	U.P.
1961	Shri Muni Jin Vijayaji	Literature & Education	Rajasthan

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Padma Shri Awardees From Jain Commuity

Year	Name	Stream	State
1985	Shri Shital Raj Mehta	Medicine	Rajasthan
1984	Shri Dharamchand Patni	Social Work	Manipur
1982	Shri Virendra Prabhakar	Arts	Delhi
1981	Dr. Hari Krishna Jain	Science & Engineering	Delhi
1981	Dr. Pramod Karan Sethi	Medicine	Rajasthan
1977	Dr. Madhuri Ratilal Shah	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
1973	Dr. Narendra Singh Jain	Medicine	Delhi
1972	Shri Mohan Mull Chordia	Trade & Industry	Tamil Nadu
1970	Smt. Sumathiben  Shah	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
1968	Shri Balasaheb Amgonda Patil	Literature & Education	Maharashtra

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Year	Name	Stream	State
1992	Shri Lalchand Hirachand	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
1992	Meenakshi Saraogi	Trade & Industry	West Bengal
1992	Shri Shanti Lal Jain	Other	Delhi
1992	Dr. Vijayakumar Shah	Medicine	Maharashtra
1991	Shri Bimal Prashad Jain	Social Work	Delhi
1991	Dr. Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti	Social Work	Maharashtra
1990	Shri Yashpal Jain	Literature & Education	Delhi
1989	Shri Mag Raj Khangarmal Jain	Social Work	Rajasthan
1985	Dr. Ramniklal Gandhi	Medicine	Maharashtra

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Padma Shri Awardees From Jain Commuity

Year	Name	Stream	State
2003	Shri Nemi Chandra Jain	Arts	Delhi
2003	Shri Om Prakash Jain	Arts	Delhi
2002	Darshana Navnitlal Jhaveri	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
2002	Shri Gyan Chand Jain	Literature & Education	Delhi
2002	Dr. Prakash Nanalal Kothari	Medicine	Maharashtra
2001	Dr. Sunil Manilal Kothari	Arts	Delhi
1999	Dr. (Smt.) Saryu Vinod Doshi	Arts	Maharashtra
1992	Shri Anandji Virji Shah	Arts	Maharashtra
1992	Kum. Asha Bachubai Parekh	Arts	Maharashtra
1992	Shri Kalyanji Virji Shah	Arts	Maharashtra

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Padma Shri Awardees From Jain Commuity

Year	Name	Stream	State
2010	Shri Kranti Shah	Social Work	Maharashtra
2010	Dr. Sudhir M. Parikh	Social Work	West Bengal
2009	Shri Alok Mehta	Literature & Education	Delhi
2009	Shri Bhavarlal Hiralal Jain	Science & Engineering	Maharashtra
2009	Dr. Rakesh Kumar Jain	Medicine	Uttarakhand
2004	Dr. Ashwin Balachand Mehta	Medicine	Maharashtra
2004	Shri Kanhaiya Lal Sethia	Literature & Education	West Bengal
2004	Dr. Kumarpal Desai	Literature & Education	Gujarat
2004	Smt. Sharayu Daftary	Trade & Industry	Maharashtra
2004	Prof.(Smt) Sunita Jain	Literature & Education	Delhi

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Navalmal Firodia

-Mahavir Sanglikar

Navalmal Firodia was a noted freedom fighter, an industrialist, a staunch Gandhian and a Philanthropologist. Born in 1910, he was sent to prison by British Government in 1932 and 1942 for taking part in freedom movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi.

As an industrialist, he gave two unique vehicles, Auto Riksha for carrying passengers and Tempo for carrying goods. He worked with Bajaj Auto and in later period he founded his own company, Bajaj Tempo which is now known as Force Motors.

His contribution to promotion Jainism is also outstanding. He was founder of the famous institution Veerayatan. He also founded Sanmati Teerth, an institution for promoting Prakrit language and Jain philosophy. He donated a huge amount for the Prakrit Dictionary Project at Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute at Pune.

As a philanthropologist, he donated to various institutions working for Rural Development, Education, Empowerment of Women, Poors, and Orphans etc.

He was a progressive Jain and many of his thoughts were indigestible for orthodox Jains.

Dr. Veerendra Heggade Gets Karnataka Ratna Award

By Team Mangalorean Bangalore


BANGALORE, January 13, 2010: The Karnataka government has announced a Makara Sankranti gift to Shri Kshethra Dharmasthala Dharmadikari Dr. Veerendra Heggade by giving him "Karnataka Ratna" award for the year 2009 for his outstanding contribution to the humanity.

The State Government headed by Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa announced this award here on Wednesday.

The Karnataka Ratna award for the year 2008 has been given to Kannada writer De Jaware Gowda, former Vice-Chancellor of Mysore University. Kannada litterateur and winner of the Padma Shri D. Javare Gowda observed a dawn-to-dusk fast in 2006 seeking classical language status for Kannada.

Dr. Javare Gowda, who is known as "De Ja Gow" in literary circles, said he chose Sarvodaya Day for his protest as Mahatma Gandhi had advocated supremacy of the mother tongue.

Dr. Javare Gowda, who had threatened to return the Padma Shri if the Centre did not accord classical language status to Kannada by January 1, 2006, said he decided against the move in anticipation of a positive reply from Dr. Kalam. Because of his protest, the Kannada has been granted classical status by the Centre on November 1, 2008.

Noted Kannada writer and Jnanapeet award winner late Kuvempu was the first recipient of the Award in the early 1990s during the S Bangarappa regime.

Dr Heggade runs several primary schools, college, engineering institutes, nursing and medical and dental colleges across the State. He also recently announced that the temple would build houses for the flood affected people in north Karnataka.

Some of the awards won by Heggade are:

Padmabhushan Award 1999-2000, Government of India
Honorary Fellowship of Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (FRCPS) of Glasgow, Glasgow University, the UK, 2005
Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award, 1994
Karnataka Rajyotsava Award 1985, Government of Karnataka
‘Rajarshi’ title honour from President of India, 1993
Honorary Doctorate from Mangalore University, Mangalore, 1994
Shri Chandrashekhar Saraswathi National Eminence Award, 2003
Kannadiga of the Year Award from ETV Channel, 2004

History of Dharmasthala:

Dharmasthala, located in Dakshina Kannada district, about 300 km west of Bangalore, the capital of Karnataka, has not just remained a source of inspiration to the devout but has been propagating the meaning of Dharma to encompass the advancement of society at large. It has played a proactive role in bettering the lives of poor communities far and wide. Established about 600 years ago, the temple has been managed by a Jain family. Millions of pilgrims visit Dharmasthala temple every year to seek the blessings of Lord Manjunathaswamy.

Now, the present head of the temple is Dharmadhikari Dr. Dharmasthala Veerendra Heggade. Born on November 25, 1948, Dr. Veerendra Heggade, son of Shri Ratnavarma Heggade, assumed the responsibilities of the temple at the tender age in 1968. Since then he has carried the family heritage to greater heights. Dr. Heggade rapidly grew into the responsibilities of his office and started to transform the charitable work of the temple into a modern rural development institution, which touches the lives of people with a transformational directness that is unique. His remarkable service to mankind for the last four decades won him several awards and accolades from across the world.

Dr. Heggade has left no field/activity untouched. He and the temple management reach out to the needy people in Karnataka and other parts of the country through charity, empowerment, knowledge-building, finance and technology. Dr. Heggade initiated a wide range of works and has set up schools, medical, dental, engineering, business management and, law colleges and hospitals throughout the region. Dharmasthala is also engaged in several other works such as preservation and promotion of art, architecture and culture, with Dr. Heggade taking an abiding interest.

Because of Dr. Heggade’s yeoman service, Dharmasthala has become well-known beyond its neighbourhood. Under the present regime, the temple has become not only an abode of peace but also a philanthropic institution for the poor and the needy.

In the early 1980s, Dr. Heggade conceived two institutions - Shri Kshethra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project (SKDRDP) and Rural Development and Self-employment Training Institute (RUDSETI). Both were established in 1982. While SKDRDP was set up to serve the people in the rural areas, RUDSETI was established to offer training to unemployed youth to take up self-employed venture through entrepreneurship. Both institutions aim at poverty alleviation through sustainable livelihood programmes for small and marginal farmers, landless labourers, women and educated youth, with the target group largely from weaker sections.