Sahungra sarpanch wins Human Rights Nobel Award

Tribune News Service

Nawanshahr, August 7

Young and progressive sarpanch of a Nawanshahr village advocate Rajbalwinder Singh ((30) has won the Human Rights Nobel Award for being the best social worker of the year. This Sahungra village sarpanch has remained in the headlines for his unique projects in the social sector. The award was given to him by the Global Human Rights Trust. The programme was organised at the Srinagar Tagore Hall.

He was recently awarded with the ‘Uch Sikhiyat Adarsh Yuva Sarpanch Samman’ during the 13th Indian Youth Parliament organised by the MIT-School of Government (SOG), Pune. Rajbalwinder, who is BA-LLB, has been serving the people of his village for long. He has already received six awards for his outstanding works.

The chief guest of this ceremony was Ghulam Ali Khatana, Rajya Sabha MP, while chairman of Waqf Board, Jammu and Kashmir, Darshana Andrabi was the special guest.

Rajbalwinder while expressing happiness said receiving the award was a matter of pride for the villagers. “This has given me a great push and motivation to work more towards the development of the village and the social welfare works,” he said.

Getting emotional on receiving this award, he said he was here because of his parents and uncle. He said he was indebted to his uncle who fought for the downtrodden people of the society. “I owe my success to my parents and my uncle Shingara Ram Sahungra, who always supported me and motivated me to do good work. I dedicate the award to the people of my village, who chose me to serve them,” he said.

With the efforts of the young and progressive sarpanch, a nondescript and little-known village has taken a giant digital leap towards making its presence felt. The village is just a click away if you want to know its history, total population, percentage of men and women, literacy rate, etc. The Tribune had highlighted that in a unique initiative of its kind, the village has developed its own Android app ‘Digital Sahungra’.