Quaide Milleth Award for Probity in Political/Public Life
February 10 , 2024 295 days 752 0
Senior journalist N. Ram and renowned economist Abusaleh Shariff have been declared the winners of the Quaide Milleth Award for Probity in Political/Public Life for the year 2023.
Shariff has been awarded for his role in the preparation of the Sachar Committee report.
Earlier, The Wire and K. Veeramani were awarded the same for the year 2022.
The award was instituted in 2015 after Quaide Milleth Mohamed Ismail Saheb, a popular South Indian leader.
He exercised tremendous influence in the formative years of Independent India, as the opposition leader in Madras Presidency.
He is also a Member of the Constituent Assembly, Member of Rajya Sabha (1952-58), and was elected to Lok Sabha thrice.