Women have always been and will always be a great source of motivation and inspiration for mankind!
A select set of women were honoured at 8th
annual Raindropss Women Achievers Awards | Lifetime Achievement Award
presented to 105 years Organic Farmer Pappammal and 93 years old Freedom
Fighter Lakshmi Krishnan
The 8th edition of Raindropss
Women Achievers Awards, which was instituted to honour women achievers in
various fields, was presented at an event at the Rani Seethai Hall, Chennai.
Conceived by Raindropss Charity
Foundation, a youth based social organization well known for spreading social
awareness messages through entertainment and media, organized its 8th annual
Women Achievers Awards presented by Velammal Nexus and Sree Thangam
Jewellery. The awards were instituted in 2012 to honour women achievers
across various genres. Oscar winning music composer A.R.Rahman's sister,
Music Director turned Producer A.R.Raihanah also the Goodwill
Ambassador of Raindropss and Aravind Jayabal, Founder of Raindropss presided
over these celebrations held in appreciation of international women's day
celebrations.
This year, lifetime achievement
awards were conferred on 105 years old Padma Shri awardee Pappammal for her
outstanding contribution towards organic farming and 93 years old INA
Freefighter Lakshmi Krishnan. Padma Shri Awardee and Indian Basketball team
captain Anitha Pauldurai, Queen of Tamil Cinema to Urvashi, Former Deputy
Director Sudha Ramen IFS for Best Administrative Services, India's First
Woman Truck Driver Jothimani Gowthaman, South India's First Female Firefighter
Remya Sreekanthan, India's First Transgender Judge Jotiya Mondal, First Visually
Challenged Advocate in Madras High Court Karpagam, First Crematorium Watch
woman Vairamani from Coimbatore, Nation's first Ambulance driver Veeralaskhmi,
South India's first women truck driver Jothimani Gowthaman, Veena Exponent
Punya Srinivas, Dr. Renuka Ramakrishnan for Community Service, Parimala Devi
for Organic and Integrated farming and Vinisha Umashankar in the young
innovator category were presented with Women Achievers Awards in the grand
ceremony.
Actor - Director K. Bhagyaraj,
Director P. Vasu, Principal of Police Recruitment School
Saravanan, Chairman of VGP Groups Dr. V.G.Santhosham, Music Director James
Vasanthan, Veena Maestro Rajesh Vaidhya, Additional Commissioner of Income Tax
Nandha Kumar IRS, Regional officer of Censor Board Leela Meenakshmi, Former
Chairman of Ethiraj College for Women and COO of Bahwan CyberTek Mike
Muralidharan, Nodal Officer of Tamil Nadu Government Multispeciality Hospital
Anandkumar, Actress Neelima, Dr Srimathy Kesan graced the occasion and
presented the awards to the achievers.
It has been a vision of
Raindropss to recognize and honor the achievers in their own fields, the
rationale behind this project is after
all inspiration is caught and not taught; we take
great pleasure in honoring the outstanding women achievers across various
genres every year to commemorate the International Women’s Day celebrations, we
are glad and proud to present our 8th annual awards this year and it’s our
great privilege to felicitate our frontline warriors who contributed their best
to save the lives of many and fought against the deadly coronavirus in the
same occasion, Says Aravind Jayabal, Founder and Creative Head of
Raindropss.
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