{"id":2498,"date":"2023-02-23T06:38:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T01:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2025-03-25T22:11:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:41:29","slug":"sansad-ratna-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sansad-ratna-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Sansad Ratna Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Sansad Ratna Awards<strong>:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0The Sansad Ratna Awards were instituted in 2010, inspired by <strong>the teachings of former President APJ Abdul Kalam, <\/strong>who launched the first edition of the Award function in Chennai.<\/li>\n<li>The Jury Committee has chosen a total of 13 MPs and two parliamentary committees for the award, with a lifetime award being presented for the first 2023 awards.<\/li>\n<li>The jury committee comprises \u201c<strong>eminent Parliamentarians and (members of) civil society\u201d.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The nominations were based on an MP\u2019s cumulative performance in Parliament, from the beginning of the 17th Lok Sabha until the end of Winter Session 2022<\/li>\n<li>Factors that the decision is based on include <strong>questions asked, private members\u2019 Bills introduced, debates initiated, attendance, funds utilised<\/strong>, etc.<\/li>\n<li>The performance data of the members have been sourced from information provided by PRS Legislative Research.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)What are the contributions of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam?<\/h3>\n<p>Dr Kalam made a significant contribution as Project Director to develop India&#8217;s first indigenous Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV-III) which successfully injected the Rohini satellite into the near-earth orbit. He was responsible for the evolution of ISRO&#8217;s launch vehicle programme, particularly the PSLV configuration.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/sansad-ratna-8461048\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>PM Modi congratulates winners: What are the Sansad Ratna Awards?<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sansad Ratna Awards were instituted in 2010, inspired by the teachings of former President APJ Abdul Kalam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}