Antar-Rashtriys Sahayog Nyas (ARSN)

ARSN is a registered trust, with Shri Baleshwar Agrawal donating the entire money received by him on his Amrit Mohotsav as corpus. Subsequently, he received two more awards, which money also he donated to the Nyas fund. Antar-Rashtriya Sahayog Nyas has instituted Bharatvanshi Gaurav Samman as an annual award to be conferred on a PIO/NRI or an institution for outstanding contribution in the field of service to the society in India and / or abroad. The award carries a Citation, Shawl, Memento and a cheque for Rupees one lakh.



So far, Bharatvanshi Gaurav Sammans have been conferred on eight distinguished PIOs and one PIO Institution, with distinguished persons as Chief Guests are as follows:

NAME OF AWARDEE YEAR CHIEF GUEST
  Shri Ranjith Ramnarain,South Africa 25th October 2005 Dr. Nainchandra Ramgoolam, the Prime Minister of Mauritius
  Shri Satnarayan Maharaj , Trinidad & Tobago 23rd December 2006 Shri Inder Kumar Gujral, Former Prime Minister of India
  Dr. Thomas Abraham, Chairman,GOPIO (USA) 4th January 2008 Shri Bhairon SingShekhawat, former Vice President of India
  Human Service Trust, Mauritius 11th January 2009 Shri L.K.Advani,former Deputy Prime Minister of India
  Shri Shivnath Rai Bajaj ,Thailand 10th January 2010 Smt. Sushma Swaraj then leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha
  Dr.Ved Prakash Nanda, USA 14th May 2011 Shri Sushil Kumar Modi,then Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar
  Shri Muljibhai Laljibhai Pindolia,President Hindu Council of Africa and International Trustee of     World Conference of Religions for Peace 1st February 2013 Shri Arun Jaitely, then Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha
  Prof. Nihal Singh Agar Australia 22nd April 2017 Shri Lokesh Chandra, then President ICCR & Shri Ram Bahadur Rai, President, IGNCA
  Smt. Sarita Boodhoo, Chairperson of Bhojpuri Speaking Union ,Mauritius 22nd April 2017 Shri Lokesh Chandra, then President ICCR & Shri Ram Bahadur Rai, President, IGNCA