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{{short description|Indian award-granting organisation}}
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The '''India International Friendship Society''' (IIFS) is a private voluntary organisation based in [[New Delhi]], [[India]]. Its stated aim is to strengthen the ties between India and its [[expatriate]] community in the hope of using the resources and potential of the expatriates to benefit India. The organisation's chief activity is the awarding of the '''Glory of India Award''' (also called the "Bharat Jyoti Award") in ceremonies held regularly in New Delhi and in international cities with large expatriate Indian communities.

The validity of the awards has been called into question, based on the request for biographical data from award invitees accompanied by a request for the payment of a fee of [[Indian rupee|Rs]]12,500.<ref>
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|url=http://www.greaterkashmir.com/mobi/news/sunday-special/bharat-jyoti-award/6265.html
|title=Bharat Jyoti Award
|first=Hand|last=Ajaz-ul-Haque
|work=Greater Kashmir
|date=6 May 2006
}}
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|title=How to run a successful scam
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|date=June 22, 2012
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{{cite web
|url=http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2006/May/9/spot-iifs-office-in-new-delhi-and-win-a-bharat-jyoti-award-18.asp
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150116035524/http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2006/May/9/spot-iifs-office-in-new-delhi-and-win-a-bharat-jyoti-award-18.asp
|archive-date=16 January 2015
|title=Spot IIFS Office in New Delhi and Win a Bharat Jyoti Award
|first=Ishtyaq Ahmad
|last=Gaani
|work=Greater Kashmir
|date=9 May 2006
|url-status=dead
}}</ref>

==Awardees==
Among its awardees, IIFS counts the following prominent people:

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* [[Dev Anand]]<ref name=Hindu2012Jan/>
* [[Prema Cariappa]]<ref name=Hindu2012Jan/>
* [[Sunil Dutt]]<ref name=Hindu2012Jan>
{{cite news
|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/article2816551.ece
|title=‘Glory of India Award' for surgeon hailing from Tenali
|work=[[The Hindu]]
|date=20 January 2012
|first=P. Sujatha|last=Varma
}}</ref>
* [[Shamim Jairajpuri]]<ref>
{{cite news
|url=http://www.hindu.com/2007/06/28/stories/2007062858990300.htm
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103175403/http://www.hindu.com/2007/06/28/stories/2007062858990300.htm
|url-status=dead
|archive-date=3 November 2012
|title=A new hostel for students
|date=28 January 2007
|first=Parul|work=[[The Hindu]]
|last=Sharma
}}</ref>
* [[Basappa Danappa Jatti]]<ref name=Hindu2012Jan/>
* [[Rajesh Khanna]]<ref name=Hindu2012Jan/>
* [[Owais Mohammad]]<ref name="Aligarh Muslim University - Department Page">{{Cite web |url=https://www.amu.ac.in/dshowfacultydata.jsp?did=47&eid=10058666 |title=Aligarh Muslim University - Department Page |date=2017-12-27 |website=www.amu.ac.in |language=en |access-date=2017-12-27}}</ref>
* [[Prem Chand Pandey]]<ref>
{{cite book
|page=449
|title=Advances in Marine and Antarctic Science
|first1=Dinabandhu|last1=Sahoo
|first2=Prem Chand|last2=Pandey
|publisher=APH Publishing
|year=2002
|isbn=9788176483476
}}</ref>
* [[Kamlesh D. Patel|Kamlesh Patel]]<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.fead.org.uk/docs/LKP_CV.doc
|title=C.V. of Professor Lord Kamlesh Kumar Patel, OBE
|publisher=Film Exchange on Alcohol and Drugs
|access-date=7 June 2012
}}{{Dead link|date=November 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* [[Amichand Rajbansi]]<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://news.in.msn.com/international/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5714198
|title=South African political veteran Rajbansi dies
|date=29 December 2011
|work=MSN News
|first=Fakir
|last=Hassan
|access-date=11 June 2012
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927194759/http://news.in.msn.com/international/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5714198
|archive-date=27 September 2013
|url-status=dead
}}</ref>
* [[Dhirubhai Shah]]<ref name=Crescents>
{{cite press release
|url=http://www.crescentsofbrisbane.org/00%20Files%20&%20Images/CCN322/Umesh%20Chandra.pdf
|title=Umesh Chandra receives “Bharat Gaurav” Pride of India award
|publisher=Crescents of Brisbane
}}</ref>
* [[Chaudhary Ishwar Singh]]<ref name=Crescents/>
* [[Marsha Singh]]<ref name=Crescents/>
* [[Ashok Sinha]]<ref name=Crescents/>
* [[R. Sowdhamini]]<ref name="Prof. R. Sowdhamini - News - NCBS">{{Cite web |url=https://www.ncbs.res.in/faculty/mini-news |title=Prof. R. Sowdhamini - News - NCBS |website=www.ncbs.res.in |language=en |access-date=2017-12-26}}</ref>
* [[Nirmal Chandra Suri]]<ref name=Hindu2012Jan/>
* [[Harinder Takhar]]<ref name=Crescents/>
* [[Mother Teresa]]<ref name=Hindu2012Jan/>
* [[Pankaj Udhas]]<ref name=Crescents/>
* [[Bharati Vaishampayan]]<ref name=Crescents/>
* [[Drukchen Jigme Pema Wangchen]]<ref name=Crescents/>
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==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{official|http://www.iifsind.org}}

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