Sivakumar Nadesan receives the 2023 Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award

Mr. Sivakumar Nadesan, the Managing Director of the Virakesari published by Express Newspapers, Chairman of the Sri Lanka Press Institute and the Press Complaints Commission of Sri Lanka received the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award from Her Excellency Droupadi Murmu, the President of India at the 17th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2023 Valedictory Session held on January 10 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.Nadesan, is the only Sri Lankan among 27 others selected globally to receive the coveted Award.

He is also a member of the Newspaper Society of Sri Lanka and is the President of the Global Organization of People of Indian origin (Sri Lanka) and has been a recipient of the “Service above Self” award from Rotary International for Community work.

A Jury-cum-Awards Committee, with Hon’ble Jagdeep Dhankhar, Vice-President of India as the Chairman and Hon’ble Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, External Affairs Minister as the Vice-Chair and other distinguished members from various walks of life considered the nominations for the awards and unanimously selected the awardees for conferment.

The awardees who represent excellence achieved in different fields, include Jagadish Chennupati of Australia in the field of science and technology and education, Sanjeev Mehta of Bhutan in education, Dilip Loundo of Brazil in art and culture and education, Alexander Maliakel John of Brunei in medicine, Vaikuntam Iyer Lakshmanan of Canada in community welfare, Joginder Singh Nijjar of Croatia in art and culture, Ramjee Prasad of Denmark in IT and Kannan Ambalam of Ethiopia in community welfare. Reena Vinod Pushkarna of Israel in business and community welfare. Piyush Gupta of Singapore in business, Mohanlal Hira and Sanjaykumar Shivabhai Patel of South Sudan in community welfare.