Awards for late engineer Jaswant Singh Gill
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Tribune News Service
Amritsar, December 21
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The I Can Foundation, based in Jaipur, on Monday bestowed the lifetime achievement award on late Er Jaswant Singh Gill for his outstanding contribution to humanity. This award was given to him for his act of bravery in which he had saved 65 coal miners trapped in the flooded and collapsing Mahabir coalmine in Raniganj area of West Bengal on November 16, 1989.
He was decorated with the nation’s highest civilian gallantry award, Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padak, by the President of India in November 1991.
In August this year, IIT-ISM, the premiere institute of mining engineering in the country, instituted a national award in his memory titled Jaswant Singh Gill Memorial Industrial Safety Excellence Award.
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SAIBAA (South Asian International Business Achievement Awards) too has announced to give Humanitarian Award for 2020 to Jaswant Singh Gill. Gill passed away in 2019 due to cardiac arrest at the age of 80.
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