The Lokmanya Tilak National Award is a national-level award instituted to honour works in the field of nation development and progress. It is named after Indian nationalist leader and freedom fighter Bal Gangadhar Tilak, popularly known as Lokmanya. The award is presented annually on 1st August by the Tilak Smarak Mandir Trust on the occasion of Lokmanya Tilak's death anniversary. Lokmanya Tilak was a prominent figure in India's freedom struggle during the early 20th century.
Award The award constitutes a memento, citation and the amount of ₹100,000.
List of recipients YearRecipientRef.1983Shreedhar Mahadev Joshi1984Godavari Parulekar1985Indira Gandhi (posthumous)1986Shripad Amrit Dange1987Achyut Patwardhan1988Abdul Ghaffar Khan (posthumous)1989Sudha Joshi1990Madhu Limaye1991Madhukar Dattatraya Deoras1992Pandurang Shastri Athavale1993Shankar Dayal Sharma1994Atal Bihari Vajpayee1995T. N. Seshan1996Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar1997Manmohan Singh1998Rajagopala Chidambaram1999Vijay P. Bhatkar2000Rahul Bajaj2001M. S. Swaminathan2002Verghese Kurien2003Ramoji Rao2004N. R. Narayana Murthy2005Sam Pitroda2006G. Madhavan Nair2007A. Sivathanu Pillai2008Montek Singh Ahluwalia2009Pranab Mukherjee2010Sheila Dikshit2011Kota Harinarayana2012Prakash Amte and Vikas Amte2013E. Sreedharan2014Avinash Chander2015Subbiah Arunan2016Sharad Pawar2017Balkrishna2018K. Sivan2019Baba Kalyani2020Sonam Wangchuk2021Cyrus S. Poonawalla2022Tessy Thomas2023Narendra Modi2024Sudha Murty2025Nitin Gadkari2026Ajit Doval
Trivia
Indira Gandhi and Abdul Ghaffar Khan only two are (posthumous) awarded N. R. Narayana Murthy and Sudha Murty are the only couple to be awarded.
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