New Delhi, Jul 24 (PTI) NCP-SP chief Sharad Pawar is set to confer the Chintamanrao Deshmukh National Award on Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari next week for his contribution to public service.
The award, instituted by Pune-based NGO Sarhad, will be given away at a function at the New Maharashtra Sadan here on July 29.
Former Union minister Pawar will confer the award on Gadkari, the NGO said in a statement issued here.
Deshmukh, who hailed from Maharashtra, was the first Indian to be appointed as the governor of the Reserve Bank of India in 1943 and also served as the finance minister from 1950 to 1956.
He had famously quit as the finance minister over the Union government’s plans to bifurcate the then state of Bombay into Gujarat and Maharashtra and designating Mumbai as a Union Territory.
The first Chintamanrao Deshmukh National Award was conferred on former diplomat Dyaneshwar Mulay. PTI SKU RC
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