Cricket maestro and Bharat Ratna Sachin
Tendulkar and Bollywood
danseuse Helden are among this year's Giants International awardees, according
to an announcement here Tuesday.
Tendulkar will get the award for
lifetime achievement in sports while Helen Salim Khan will be honoured for her
lifetime contribution to films.
The awards shall be given away by
the Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah at a function Wednesday.
The other awardees include Urvi
Piramal (Business & Industry), Hemant Thacker (Medicine), Kulinkant Luthia
(Social Service), Bahubali Shah (Journalism), Anu Malik (Music) and Patangrao
Kadam (Education).
Giants International was founded
Sep 17, 1972 by Nana Chudasama who is now its world chairman, with a purpose to
serve humanity, promote unity, harmony and homogeneity among its members.
For the past 35 years, it has
worked for family planning, disaster management, flood relief, rainwater
harvesting, low-cost housing, AIDS, drugs abuse awareness, academics, medicine,
environment and saving the girl child.
According to Giants International
Executive World Chairperson Shaina NC, the organisation has 600 branches in
India and abroad in countries like the US, Britain, Africa, Ukraine and
Mauritius.
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