Rashtriya Bal Puraskar Award 2024: PM Modi Meets And Interact With Winners

On January 22, the president of India distributed the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar Awards 2024 to 19 children selected for their excellence in various fields.

PM modi Interacts With Rashtriya Bal Puraskar Awardees 2024

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, January 23, met and interacted with the Rashtriya Bal Puraskar Awardees 2024. The prime minister also distributed souvenirs to the awardees and also discussed their achievements. Notably, a total of 19 children were selected for the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar (PMRBP) Awards 2024. The award is given to children in the 5-18 age group for exceptional achievements. The award is presented to students for their excellence in the fields of Bravery, Art & Culture, Environment, Innovation, Science & Technology, Social Service and Sports that deserve national recognition. Each student shortlisted for the PMRBP Award is given a medal, certificate and a citation booklet.

Among the 19 children selected for the PMRBP Awards 2024, one child each was shortlisted for Bravery, Science & Technology, and Innovation categories, while four children were shortlisted for the Social Science category. While five children were selected from the Sports category, a total of seven children were selected for the Art and Culture category. 

Earlier on January 19, the centre through a PIB release notified the list of 19 students selected for the awards this year. On January 22, President Droupadi Murmu conferred the awards to the shortlisted students in an event held at the Vignan Bhavan in New Delhi. The award was conferred to the students alongside the grand Ram Mandir Inauguration event in Ayodhya. While PM Modi did the pran-pratishtha of Ram Lalla’s grand new temple, the inauguration ceremony witnessed several VVIPs like RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat, Industrialist Mukesh Ambani, and several other dignitaries. 

Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar Award 2024: List of Awardees

Sr. No.	Name	State	Category
	Aaditya Vijay Bramhane (posthumous)	Maharashtra	Bravery
	Anushka Pathak	Uttar Pradesh	Art & Culture
	Arijeet Banerjee	West Bengal	Art & Culture
	Armaan Ubhrani	Chattisgarh	Art & Culture
	Hetvi Kantibhai Khimsuriya	Gujarat	Art & Culture
	Ishfaq Hamid	Jammu & Kashmir	Art & Culture
	Md Hussain	Bihar	Art & Culture
	Pendyala Laxmi Priya	Telangana	Art & Culture
	Suhani Chauhan	Delhi	Innovation
	Aryan Singh	Rajasthan	Science & Technology
	Avnish Tiwari	Madhya Pradesh	Social Service
	Garima	Haryana	Social Service
	Jyotsna Aktar	Tripura	Social Service
	Saiyam Mazumder	Assam	Social Service
	Aaditya Yadav	Uttar Pradesh	Sports
	Charvi A	Karnataka	Sports
	Jesicca Neyi Saring	Arunachal Pradesh	Sports
	Linthoi Chanambam	Manipur	Sports
	R Surya Prasad	Andhra Pradesh	Sports