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Tie your concepts with motion: PM Modi to Bal Puraskar awardees

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Hundreds of tales of resilience emerged throughout the lockdown, which pushed lakhs of migrant staff and their households from their metropolis dwellings to make seemingly-impossible journeys again to their house states.
Jyoti Kumari’s was one such story — the 16-year-old cycled 1,200 km from Haryana’s Sikandarpur to her village in Bihar’s Darbhanga together with her ailing father driving pillion. The story captured the creativeness of the nation, with affords from the Cycling Federation of India, political get together LJP desirous to fund her training and even the announcement of a movie to be made on her referred to as Atmanirbhar.
On Monday, Jyoti was considered one of 32 youngsters from throughout the nation who just about obtained the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar (PMRBP) award from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Selected from 32 districts of 21 states and UTs, seven awards have been given within the discipline of Art and Culture, 9 have been given for Innovation and 5 for scholastic achievements. Seven youngsters have gained within the sports activities class, three have been felicitated for bravery and one little one has been honoured for her efforts within the discipline of social service. Each award carries a medal, a money prize of Rs 1 lakh, a certificates and a quotation.
Jyoti obtained her award for bravery.
The Prime Minister interacted with quite a lot of the awardees through video conferencing, congratulating them and saying that this yr’s awards had been particularly vital because the recipients “earned them in the difficult times of Covid-19 pandemic”.
Jyoti Kumari (16), who cycled 1,200 km from Haryana to her village in Bihar together with her ailing father driving pillion, was among the many 32 awardees.
Calling the achievements of the awardees astonishing, the Prime Minister additional mentioned that the longer term scientists, sportspeople, CEOs and leaders of the nation would come from amongst them.
“You will receive many congratulations, mentions in media reports and even interviews after this. But remember to tie your ideas with action and continue to make efforts and take action. Whenever a cause has been somehow connected with children, it has always been successful. Even during the pandemic, the movement for washing hands gained popularity among children and was therefore successful,” Modi mentioned.

The Prime Minister additionally requested the kids to make three pledges — a pledge of consistency, that’s, no slackening of pace of the motion; a pledge for the nation, to work for the nation; and a pledge of humility.
Kaamya Karthikeyan, a 13-year-old mountaineer from Mumbai, mentioned that she had held quite a few webinars throughout the lockdown, encouraging others to grow to be climbers and as quickly because the lockdown ended. Karthikeyan was interacting with Modi from Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla, the place she has began her coaching to have the ability to climb Mount Denali, the best peak within the US state of Alaska, in June.
Others who interacted with the Prime Minister included 16-year-old archer from Jharkhand Savita Kumari, 15-year-old painter from Manipur Venish Keisham, 15-year-old Rakeshkrishna from Karnataka for the invention of a machine that permits quick sowing of seeds and preserves 50 per cent water and 17-year-old Mohd Shadab from Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh, who works for girls’s empowerment and needs to work in human rights on the UN.