The Rotary Club of Bangalore will honour people in seven categories who work selflessly for the betterment of society, on Saturday at ITC Gardenia on Vittal Mallya Road. Deccan Herald is the media partner for the event.
The seven categories under which the awards are given are: Youth Icon Award, Outstanding NGO Award, Pride of Work Award, Environment Conservation Award, Best Start-up Success Award, Corporate Citizen Award and Citizen Extraordinaire Award.
The chairman emeritus of Infosys, N R Narayana Murthy will be the guest of honour while the judges of the panel, which selected the awardees, theatre personality Arundhati Nag, chief general manager of State Bank of India Farooque Shahab and the managing director of UTC Limited Kris Rao will be present along with noted citizens of the city.
The president of the Rotary Club of Bangalore V S Ranga Rao said the purpose behind founding these awards is to encourage people who made a difference in the society and present these extraordinary citizens as icons for others to emulate.
Rao said the Rotary Club, established 82 years ago, has done many charitable works such as upgrading government schools, running Rotary TTK Blood Bank, dialysis centre at Rajarajeshwari Hospital on Mysuru Road as well as Manohar Atthavar Hospital offering free treatment.
“We have a history of 82 years of community services. We have improved 83 schools under our ‘Happy School’ programme and 17 more will be upgraded shortly,” said Rao.
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