Patiala: Under the direction of Director Rakesh Thakur, the Rashtriya Jyoti Kala Manch (Regd.) and Kansal Foundation organized a ceremony at the Bharat Vikas Parishad Hall to honor 60 personalities from various fields with the 'Rashtriya Gaurav Puraskar 2026' and 'Shaan-e-Punjab Award 2026' for their contributions.
The event was attended by the great social worker Bhagwan Das Juneja (Green Man) as the Chief Guest, and Harpal Juneja (Chairman, PRTC) as the Special Guest. The event was presided over by Advocate Dr. Gurvinder Kansal. Other notable guests present included Baljinder Singh Dhillon (Chairman, Punjab Agro and Food Grain), Harpal Singh Virk (Chairman, Improvement Trust), Rajiv Goyal (Social Worker), Dr. Naresh Garg (Garg Mission Hospital), Bhupinder Singh (MD, Mata Gujri Public School), Dr. Preetkamal Cheema (USA), Gurinderjit Kaur, Mukesh Singla, and Harinder Gupta.
Awards were presented by Manch Chairman Sanjay Goyal, Patron Bir Chand Khurmi, Senior President Er. Narinder Singh, Akshay Gopal (Patron), Tribhuvan Gupta, Dheeraj Goyal, Varinder Garg (AV Marketing), Adv. Surinder Mohan Singla, Harmesh Singla, Parveen Goyal, Harinder Gupta, Barinder Verma, Karamvir Puri, Darshan Jindal, Dr. Satyapal Saluja, Harkesh Mittal Balbera, and other office bearers.
The recipients of the Rashtriya Gaurav Puraskar and Shaan-e-Punjab Award 2026 included: Dr. Nikhil Saronwal, Dr. Ashok Joshi, Dr. Shiv Bhardwaj, Yashpal Kakkar, Advocate Rakesh Gupta, Dr. Dinesh Passi, Kamal Aggarwal, Dr. Sanjeev Gupta, Dr. Sham Jindal, Dr. Neeraj Goyal, Rakesh Bagga, Harpreet Sandhu, Rakesh Varmi, Avtar Singh Bhola, Bharat Bhushan, Jatinder Bansal, Mulak Raj Tohra, Er. Subhash Sharma, Navjot Singh Bajaj, Pandit Niklesh, Rupinder Singh, Raj Singla, Bikram Verma, Pradeep Monga, Dr. Preet Inder Singh Kathuria, Dr. Varinder Khanna, Sham Veer, Pawan Singla, Pandit Rajbir, Jangjit Singh, Jagdeep Singh Sodhi, Dr. Deep Singh, Dr. Rajesh Chopra, Dr. Sanjay Singla, Rajkumar Sharma, Manjit Singh Chauhan, Ishwar Sharma, Varinder Koshish, Sonam Bansal, Naresh Singla, Surinder Jindal, Pawan Goyal, Rajiv Garg, RM Bansal, Dr. Rakesh Pathak, KK Bansal, Ramesh Kapoor, and Ravinder Singh.
The event’s success was supported by the contributions of Dr. Dharminder Sandhu, Mamta Thakur, Williamjit Singh, Nirmal Jain, Suman, Sanjay Kumar (Sanjay Studio), and Ram Sharan.