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naveen_chaudhary
Hi All,
Haryana CM Ch. Om Prakash Chautala presented the Haryana Gaurav Award to our very own Navin Gulia yesterday in Kurukshetra. Programme was Live telecasted by ETC Punjabi Channel. Sunil Dutt, Sanjay Dutt and Pt Jasraj were some of the other recipients.
Another feather in the cap for Naivn. Congratulations to Navin from all of us.
(Read full excerpt below from The Tribune)
Kurukshetra, December 12
The Chief Minister of Haryana, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, here today presented Haryana Gaurav Awards to various eminent personalities. The recipients include Pandit Jasraj, chairman of Zee TV Subhash Chandra, actor Sanjay Dutt, well-known Saangi Pandit Tule Ram, noted playwright Swadesh Deepak, cinematographer Manmohan Singh, eminent painter Roop Chand, music director J.P. Kaushik, the only woman in the world to scale Mount Everest twice Santosh Yadav, theatre music director and actor Kamal Tiwari, prominent comedian Daryo Singh Malik, famous actor and director Satish Kaushik, poets Jaimini Haryanvi and Alhar Bikaneri, noted playback singer Vinod Sehgal and renowned film director Rakesh Nath.
Sanjay Dutt received the award of his father Sunil Dutt also. Internationally acclaimed photographer Raghu Rai did not turn up.
Two other prominent personalities included Major Abhijeet, an instructor at the National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, who has scaled Mount Everest and Naveen Gulia, a handicapped soldier, who had travlled on the highest motorable road in the world were also presented at Gaurav Award.
A cultural programme was also presented on the occasion by well-known playback singers Abhijeet, Harbhajan Mann, Sophia, Gurdass Mann, Scorpian Dance Troupe from Mumbai, famous folk singers/dancers of Haryana and Shaukat Ali Khan, Riaz Ali Khan from Pakistan. The show was telecast live by ‘etc’ channel.