A Catholic nun, who has promoted “Clean India Campaign” in Manipur, was among 42 people who on Sept. 24 were awarded by President Ram Nath Kovind.
The president conferred the National Services Scheme Awards for the year 2018-2019 on Sister William Parmar and others through virtual mode from the Rashtrapati Bhawan.
Federal Minister for Youth Affairs Kiren Reiju attended the ceremony from New Delhi’s Vigyan Bhavan.
The awards were given in three different categories like University and Plus Two, NSS units and their program officers and NSS volunteers.
Sister Parmar, a member of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity, or Vedruna Sisters, was given the prestigious awards in recognition of her exemplary and commendable social service, says a youth ministry press release.
President Kovind congratu-lated the winners and expressed his happiness to honor service-minded people. “Sevice is very much part of our value sys-tem,” he asserted.
Sister Parmar is the pro-gram officer of the NSS unit 1 of Don Bosco College Maram in the Senapati district of Manipur, a northeastern Indian State. She was selected for the award under Program Officer/NSS Unit Category.
The 39-year-old nun cu-rrently serves as assistant pro-fessor at the Salesian college with additional responsibility as NSS program officer.