[CA] Nari Shakti Puraskar Awards 2020

NARI SHAKTI PURASKAR – 2020 Details about the Winners
#	Winner	State	Achievements
01	Padala Bhudevi	Andhra Pradesh	A role model for women farmers and rural women entrepreneurs.
			She has been working for the development of tribal women, widows, Podu lands through a community based organization – CAVS (Chinnai Adhivasi Vikas Society), established by her father, in 1996.
02	Bina Devi	Bihar	Mushroom Mahila
			For popularizing mushroom cultivation. She is a mushroom grower.
			Over the years, she has trained farmers on mushroom farming, organic farming, vermin-compost production, organic insecticide preparation at home.
03	Arifa Jan	Jammu & Kashmir	Founder of Numdha Handicrafts
			Responsible for reviving the lost art of Numdha handicrafts.
			She has trained more than 100 women in Kashmir.
			She has employed 25 Kashmiri craft people and increased wages  of her employees from Rs. 175 to 450.
04	Chami Murmu	Jharkhand	Lady Tarzan
			A passionate environmentalist since 24 years.
			Has been involved in planting of more than 25 lakh trees with the Forest Department and mobilized more than 3000 women
			Has actively worked towards protecting local wildlife by saving forests from Tiber mafia and Naxalites.
			She is fondly known as the ‘Lady Tarzan’ of Jharkhand.
05	Nilza Wangmo	Ladakh	An entrepreneur, running Alchi Kitchen Restaurant.
			The restaurant is the first one to serve traditional Ladakhi cuisines including some exquisite and forgotten recipes.
			She has trained 20 women from remote areas of Ladakh who manage the restaurant.
06	Rashmi Urdhwardeshe	Maharashtra	An automotive and R&D professional since 36 years.
			Since 2014, she hasbeen the Director of the Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) which was founded in the year 1966 with the support from Government of India.
			She developed electronic controls of hydraulic testing machines and contributed towards emission measurements under which the first ever emission Laboratory was formed in India.
07	Mann Kaur	Punjab	Miracle from Chandigarh
			Started her athletic career at the age of 93.
			She won 4 Gold (Track and Field) at World Masters Athletic Championship, Poland.
			Set a record by becoming the world’s fastest centenarian at the American Masters Game, 2016.
08	Kalavati Devi	Uttar Pradesh	She is the lady mason, a driving force towards reducing open defecation in the district of Kanpur.
			She is responsible for building 4000 + toilets in villages in and around Kanpur.
09	Tashi and Nungshi Malik	Uttarakhand	They are mountaineers since more than 8 years. They are the first female twins to scale Mt Everest in 2013.
			They founded NungshiTashi Foundation to develop mountaineering as sport and empower girls in 2015.
10	Kaushiki Chakroborty	West Bengal	An Indian classical vocalist with more than 15 years of experience.
			She is Khayal and Thumri exponent.
			She founded "Sakhi Women's Musical Group", first all women classical band.
11	Avani Chaturvedi	Andhra Pradesh	For Indian Air Force’s first women fighter pilots
	Bhawanna Kanth	Bihar	The trio was inducted into IAF fighter squadron after Government decided to open fighter stream n IAF for women
	Mohana Singh Jitarwal	Uttar Pradesh	Became the first Indian women pilots to take a solo flight in a MIG - 21 in 2018
12	Bhageerathi Amma and Karthyayini Amma	Kerala	Have passed the Class IV literacy equivalent examinations.
			Bhageerathi Amma was inspired to take the examinations conducted by State Literacy Mission in Malayalam, Mathematics and Environment in November, 2019.
			At 105 years, she is the oldest literacy equivalent leaner under Kerala State Literacy Mission.
			Karthyayini Amma appeared for writing the fourth standard equivalency course under Kerala Literacy Mission’s Akasharalaksham Scheme in August 2018.
			She bagged the first rank and scored 98% marks.
			She aspires to clear tenth standard equivalent examination when she turns 100 and also acquire computer skills.
			She was also selected as the Commonwealth of Learning Goodwill Ambassador.