Twenty-two children, including 10 girls and 12 boys from 12 different states of India, have been selected for the Indian Council for Child Welfare (ICCW) National Bravery Awards, 2019. Out of which one award has been given posthumously.
15-year-old Master Adithya K, from Keral has be conferred with Bharat Award for saving more than 40 lives when a bus they were travelling caught fire in Nepal in May 2019. The only recipient to recieve the award posthumously is Muhhamed Muhsin EC, who has honoured with the Abhimanyu award. He was a Kerala resident.
The two awardees from J&K were Sartaj Mohidin Mughal and Mudasir Ashraf, they both had won the bravery award. Mughal saved his family during live shelling from Pakistan. Mughal lives at the Line of Control (LoC) while Mudasir helped IAF and rescue personnel during the IAF chopper crash in Budgam in February 2019. A 13-year-old Alaika saved her family after their car met with an accident.
The ICCW Markandeya Award was given to 10 yr old Rakhi from Uttarakhand, who saved her 4 yr old brother from a leopard. The ICCW Dhruva Award has been given to 16 yr old, Purnima Giri and 15 yr old, Sabita Giri from Odisha who saved 12 persons from drowning a river when a boat sank into the water full with wild crocodiles. ICCW Prahalada Award has been given to 10 yr old, Srimati Badra for helping her friend who lost her right leg in a train accident.
The other recipients are Assam’s Kamal Krishna Das; Chhattisgarh’s Kanti Paikra and Bharneshwari Nirmalkar; Karnataka’s Aarti Kiran Shet and Venkatesh; Maharashtra’s Zen Sadavarte and Akash Machindra Khillare; Lourembam Yaikhomba Mangang from Manipur; Everbloom K Nongrum from Meghalaya; Lalliansanga, Carolyn Malsawmtluangi and Vanlalhriatrenga from Mizoram.