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{{Short description|Indian annual Gandhian values award}}
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{{Infobox award | name = Jamnalal Bajaj Award | current_awards = | image = | imagesize = | alt = | caption = [[Charles James Dougherty]] (center) of the [[Meta Peace Team]] receiving the award in 2009| awarded_for = | presenter = [[Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation]] | host = | date = 1978 | location = | country = India | reward = | year = | year2 = | holder = | website = | previous = | main = | next = }}

'''Jamnalal Bajaj Award''' is an Indian award, for promoting [[Gandhian]] values, [[community service]] and [[Social change|social development]].<ref>[[#Va|Varma, p. 87]]</ref> Established in 1978, by the [[Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation]] of [[Bajaj Group]], it is given annually in four categories, and usually presented by the [[President of India|President]], Vice president, [[Prime Minister of India]] or a leading figure.<ref name=hindu10>{{cite news |title=Nonagenarians among four Jamnalal Bajaj awardees |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/article855578.ece |work=[[The Hindu]] |date= 29 October 2010 }}</ref> The foundation currently headed by [[Rahul Bajaj]], was created in 1977, in the memory of group founder, philanthropist and a close associate of [[Mahatma Gandhi]], [[Jamnalal Bajaj]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Jamnalal Bajaj Award |url=http://www.jamnalalbajajfoundation.org/the_foundation/about_jbf |publisher=Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329004951/http://www.jamnalalbajajfoundation.org/the_foundation/about_jbf |archivedate=2012-03-29 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The Gandhian spirit|url=http://www.financialexpress.com/old/fe/daily/20000102/fex02044.html |publisher=[[The Financial Express (India)|Financial Express]] |date=2 January 2000 }}</ref> The award ceremony takes place on his birth anniversary, 4 November.<ref>{{cite news |title=Vice President presents Jamnalal Bajaj Awards |url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/vice-president-presents-jamnalal-bajaj-award/381660/ |publisher=[[Indian Express]] |date=5 Nov 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Jamnalal Bajaj Awards presented|url=http://www.livemint.com/2007/11/15092734/Jamnalal-Bajaj-Awards-presente.html |publisher=[[Mint (newspaper)|Mint]] |date=15 November 2007}}</ref>

==Awards==
The award comprises a citation, a trophy and a cheque of Rs Ten lakh each.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.jamnalalbajajfoundation.org/awards/objectives |title=Jamnalal Bajaj Awards website |access-date=2012-04-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329214259/http://www.jamnalalbajajfoundation.org/awards/objectives |archive-date=2012-03-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is given in four categories,<ref>{{cite web|title=About the Awards |url=http://www.jamnalalbajajfoundation.org/the_foundation/about_the_awards |publisher=Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329214402/http://www.jamnalalbajajfoundation.org/the_foundation/about_the_awards |archivedate=2012-03-29 }}</ref> namely:
# Application of Science and Technology for [[Rural development]], established in 1978.{{fact|date=August 2024}}
# Outstanding contribution for the Development and Welfare of Women and Children, established in 1980 in memory of [[Janaki Devi Bajaj]].{{fact|date=August 2024}}
# International Award for promoting [[Gandhian]] values outside India, which is given to an individual of foreign nationality, established in 1988 on the birth centenary of Jamnalal Bajaj.{{fact|date=August 2024}}

To commemorate the birth centenary of Mr. Jamnalal Bajaj, the Foundation presented a special award to Dr. Nelson Mandela in 1990.<ref>[http://www.jamnalalbajajfoundation.org/beyond-profit/awards-recognition Special Award to Dr. Nelson Mandela]</ref>

==List of awardees==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year
!Constructive Work
!Science & Technology
!Women & Child Welfare
!International
|-
|1978
|[[Jugatram Dave]]
|[[Satish Chandra Das Gupta]]
|
|
|-
|1979
|[[Sarla Behn|Sarla Devi]] & [[Murlidhar Devidas Amte]] ([[Baba Amte]])
|[[Jayant Shamrao Patil]]
|
|
|-
|1980
|[[T.Kallupatti#Gandhiniketan Ashram|Gandhi Niketan Ashram]]
|[[Anil Sadgopal]]
|[[Jayashri Raiji]] & [[Kamalabai Hospet]]
|
|-
|1981
|[[Amalprava Das]]
|[[A. M. M. Murugappa Chettiar]]
|[[Ramadevi Choudhury]]
|
|-
|1982
|[[Gokulbhai Daulatram Bhatt]]
|[[Prembhai]]
|[[Taraben Mashruwala]]
|
|-
|1983
|[[Tagaduru Ramachandra Rao]]
|[[Manibhai Desai]]
|[[Pushpaben Mehta]]
|
|-
|1984
|[[Popatlal Ramchandra Shah]]
|[[Mohan Narhari Parikh]]
|[[Gaura Devi]]
|
|-
|1985
|[[T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar|T.S. Avinashilingam]]
|[[Sanjit Roy]]
|[[Anutai Wagh]]
|
|-
|1986
|[[Sunderlal Bahuguna]]
|[[Vilas B. Salunke]]
|[[Vasanti S. Roy]]
|
|-
|1987
|[[Natwar Thakkar]]
|[[Sunit Dhanaji Bonde]]
|[[Annapragada C. Krishna Rao]]
|
|-
|1988
|S. Jagannathan and [[Krishnammal Jagannathan]]
|[[Ishwarbhai Patel]]
|[[Malati Choudhury|Malati Devi Choudhuri]]
|[[Pierre Parodi]]
|-
|1989
|[[K. Janardanan Pillai]]
|[[T. G. K. Menon]]
|[[Indirabai Halbe]]
|[[Danilo Dolci]]
|-
|1990
|[[Tirath Ram]]
|[[Shripad Dabholkar|S. A. Dabholkar]]
|[[Ratan Shastri]]
|[[A. T. Ariyaratne]]
|-
|1991
|[[Dwarko Sundarani]]
|[[S. Krishnamurthy Mirmira]]
|[[Radha Bahin Bhatt]]
|[[Charles Coates Walker|Charles Walker]]
|-
|1992
|[[Thakurdas Bang]]
|[[Mitraniketan Viswanathan|K. Vishwanathan]]
|[[Shalini Moghe]]
|[[Homer A. Jack]]
|-
|1993
|[[Vichitra Narain Sharma]]
|[[Dinkarrao G. Pawar]]
|[[Kantaben]] and [[Harivilasben Shah]]
|[[Johan Galtung]]
|-
|1994
|[[L. N. Gopalaswami]]
|[[V. S. Aggarwal]]
|[[Shanti Devi (social worker)|Shanti Devi]]
|[[Gedong Bagus Oka]]
|-
|1995
|[[Kashinath Trivedi]]
|[[G. Muniratnam]]
|[[Vimla Bahuguna]]
|Kamala
|-
|1996
|[[Manubhai Pancholi]]
|[[Shrinath Sheshagiri Kalbag|S. S. Kalbag]]
|[[Indumati Parikh]]
|[[Adolfo De Obieta]]
|-
|1997
|[[R. K. Patil]]
|[[S. S. Katagihallimath]]
|[[Vinoba Niketan]]
|[[Young Seek Choue]]
|-
|1998
|[[Acharya Ramamurti]]
|[[Devendra Kumar]]
|[[Rajammal P. Devadas]]
|Kumari [[Jharna Dhara Chowdhury]]
|-
|1999
|[[Narayan Desai]]
|[[Ajoy Kumar Basu]]
|[[Saraswathi Gora]]
|[[Joseph Rotblat]]
|-
|2000
|[[Somdutt Vedalankar]]
|[[Bhaskar Save]]
|[[Vidya Devi]]
|[[Desmond Tutu]]
|-
|2001
|[[Sisir Sanyal]]
|[[Anil K. Rajvanshi]]
|[[Rehmat Sultan Fazelbhoy]]
|[[Satish Kumar]]
|-
|2002
|[[Siddharaj Dhadda]]
|[[Arunkumar Dave]]
|[[Chitra Naik]]
|[[George Willoughby (activist)|George Willoughby]]
|-
|2003
|[[Rabindra Nath Upadhyay]]
|[[Vinayak Patil]]
|[[Alice Garg]]
|[[Mary King (political scientist)|Dr. Mary E. King]]
|-
|2004
|[[Radhakrishna Bajaj]]
|[[Prabhakar Shankar Thakur]]
|[[Sarojini Varadappan]]
|[[Marie Thoeger]]
|-
|2005
|[[P. Gopinathan Nair]]
|[[Rajendra Singh]]
|[[Arunaben Shankarprasad Desai]]
|[[Daisaku Ikeda]]
|-
|2006
|[[Salem Nanjundaiah Subba Rao|S.N. Subbarao]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Jamnalal Bajaj awards presented |url=http://www.hindu.com/2006/11/07/stories/2006110716401400.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070210153132/http://www.hindu.com/2006/11/07/stories/2006110716401400.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 February 2007 |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=7 Nov 2006 }}</ref>
|[[Anil Prakash Joshi]]
|[[Rani Bang|Rani Abhay Bang]]
|[[Ismail Serageldin]]
|-
|2007
|[[Yashpal M. Mittal]]
|[[Anand Dinkar Karve]]
|[[Ashoka Gupta]]
|[[Michael Nagler]]
|-
|2008
|[[Biswanath Pattnaik]]
|[[Tushar Kanjilal]]
|[[Phoolbasan Bai Yadav|Phoolbasan Yadav]]
|[[Louis Campana]]
|-
|2009
|[[Lavanam]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Jamnalal Bajaj awards announced|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/Jamnalal-Bajaj-awards-announced/articleshow/5099531.cms |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707160030/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-10-08/pune/28081407_1_jamnalal-bajaj-foundation-technology-for-rural-development-gandhian-values |url-status=live |archive-date=7 July 2012 |work=[[The Times of India]] |date=8 Oct 2009 }}</ref>
|[[Ayyappa Masagi]]
|[[Jaya Arunachalam]]
|[[Charles Peter Dougherty]]
|-
|2010
|[[Chunibhai Vaidya]]
|[[Chewang Norphel]]
|[[Shakuntala Choudhary|Shakuntaladevi Choudhary]]
|[[Lia Diskin]]<ref name=hindu10/>
|-
|2011
|[[Ramesh Bhaiya]] and [[Vimla Bahan]]
|[[Anupam Mishra]]
|[[Shobhana Ranade]]
|[[Agus Indra Udayana]]

|-
|2012
|[[Jayant Mathkar]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Jamnalal Bajaj awards presented |url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/gandhians-felicitated-at-35th-jamnalal-bajaj-awards/1048422/ |publisher=[[Indian Express]] |date=21 Dec 2012 }}</ref>
|[[Kalyan Paul]]
|[[Glenn D. Paige]]
|[[Nighat Shafi]]
|-
|2013
|[[G. V. Subba Rao]]
|[[Snehlata Nath]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jamnalalbajajfoundation.org/awards/archives/2013/science-and-technology/snehlata-nath|title=Snehlata Nath, Jamnalal Bajaj Awards 2013, Outstanding Contribution in Application of Science and Technology for Rural Development|website=Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation|access-date=2020-04-27}}</ref>
|[[Vidhya Das]]
|[[Jean-Marie Muller]]
|-
|2014
|[[Surendra Koulagi]]
|[[Ram Kumar Singh]]
|[[Chennupati Vidaya]]
|[[Sulak Sivaraksa]]
|-
|2015
|[[Man Singh Rawat]]
|[[Perumal Vivekanandan]]
|[[Anna Ferrer]]
|[[Minoru Kasai]]
|-
|2016
|[[Mohan Hirabai Hiralal]]
|[[B. V. Nimbkar]]
|[[Dr. N. Manga Devi]]
|[[Rached Ghannouchi]]
|-
|2017
|[[Shashi Tyagi]]
|[[Jan Swasthya Sahyog]]
|[[Praveen Nair]]
|[[Ziad Medoukh]]
|-
|2018
|[[Dhoom Singh Negi]]
|[[Rupal Desai]]
|[[Prasanna Bhandari]]
|[[Clayborne Carson]]
|-
|2019
|[[Bhawani Shanker Kusum]]
|[[Imran Khan (web developer)|Mohammad Imran Khan Mewati]]
|[[Shaheen Mistri]]
|[[Sonia Deotto]]
|-
|2020<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jamnalalbajajawards.org/ |title=Home |website=jamnalalbajajawards.org}}</ref>
|Cancelled due to corona outbreak
|-
|2021
|[[Dharampal Saini]]
|[[Lal Singh]]
|[[Lucy Kurien]]
|[[David H. Albert]]
|-
|2022
|[[Nilesh Desai]]
|[[M. R. Prajapati|Mansukhbhai Prajapati]]
|[[Sophia Shaik]]
|[[Ogarit Younan]] [[Walid Slaybi]]
|-
|2023
|[[Regi George]] and [[Lalitha Regi]]
|[[Ramalakshmi Datta]]
|[[Sudha Varghese]]
|[[Raha Naba Kumar]]
|-
|}

==See also==
* [[List of awards for contributions to society]]

== References ==
<references />

*{{cite web |title=Jamnalal Bajaj Awards Archive |url=http://www.jamnalalbajajfoundation.org/awards/archives/2010 |date= |publisher=Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120329214259/http://www.jamnalalbajajfoundation.org/awards/objectives Jamnalal Bajaj Award] at the Jamnalal Bajaj Award Foundation

[[Category:Bajaj Group]]
[[Category:Indian awards]]
[[Category:Awards established in 1978]]
[[Category:Awards for contributions to society]]
[[Category:Gandhism]]
[[Category:1978 establishments in India]]

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