The Pravasi Bharatiya Samman is an award constituted by the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs in conjunction with the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, to honor exceptional and meritorious contribution in their chosen field/profession. The award is given by the President of India. The Government of India (Hindi: भारत सरकार Bhārat Sarkār), officially referred to as the Union Government, and commonly as Central Government, was established by the Constitution of India, and is the governing authority of a federal union of 28 states and 7 union territories, collectively called the Republic of India. ... The Government of India recognizes the first week of January as the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (Hindi: Pravasi - Non-resident or diaspora, Bharatiya - Indian, Divas - day). ...

Awardees for 2007

Country	Name	Description	Field of Merit
United States	Gopal Raju	journalist, founder-editor India Abroad	Media
United Kingdom	Lord Diljit Rana	Hon. Consul Belfast, Managing Director Andras House	Business
Canada	Dave Sukhdip Singh Hayer		Public Affairs
United States	Dr. Madhavan Anirudhan	President Essen Nutrition	Business
South Africa	Billy Nair	Member of Parliament, ANC South Africa	Public Affairs
Kenya	Pheroze Nowrojee	Advocate, Human Rights Activist	Community Affairs
United States	Nirmal K. Sinha	Community Leader, Significant contribution to fostering friendship between India and USA	Community Affairs
Malaysia	Tan Sri Dato K.R. Somasundram	Executive Chairman, National Land Finance Co-operative Society	Public Affairs
Jamaica	Kenneth S. Benjamin	Founder and chairman of the Guardsman Group	Business
Germany	Sibabrata Roy	President Indo-German Society Hamburg, Promoter of Indian Culture in Germany	Community Affairs
United Arab Emirates	Syed M. Salahuddin	Managing Director, ETA-Ascon Group	Business
United Arab Emirates	Dr. Bavaguthu R. Shetty	Businessman Pharmaceuticals, Chairman Board of Governors Abu Dhabi Indian School	Business
Fiji	Sir Moti Tikaram	Justice, National President Fiji World Jurist Association	Public Affairs
Portugal	Dr. Abdool Magid Karim Vakil	President Comunidade Islamica de Lisboa	Business
United States	Dr. P. Jayaraman	Writer, Promoter of Hindi language and literature	Culture

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Awardees for 2006

Country	Name	Description
Thailand	Shivnath Rai Bajaj
Israel	Eliahu Bezale
Mauritius	Abdool Raouf Bundhun
Philippines	Pratima Kale
Saudi Arabia	Majid Uddin Kazi
Qatar	C.K. Menon
United Kingdom	Gulam Kaderbhai Noon
United States	Sudhir Parikh
Guyana	Yesu Persaud
Seychelles	V. Ramadoss
South Africa	Sisupal Rambharos
United States	Niranjan S. Shah
Hong Kong	Rusy M. Shroff
Réunion	Jean-Paul Virapoule
United States	Fareed Zakaria	journalist, editor of Newsweek International

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Awardees for 2005

Country	Name	Description
Hong Kong	M. Arunachalam	President, Asia Pacific India Chambers of Commerce
United States	Jagdish Bhagwati	Indian American economist
South Africa	Amina Cachalia	Women's activist, politician
Tanzania	J.K. Chande	Chancellor, International Medical and Technological University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Germany	Alokeranjan Dasgupta	Poet, philosopher, academic
South Africa	Ahmed Kathrada	South African anti-apartheid activist
United States	Sunil Khilnani	Political scientist, writer
Trinidad and Tobago	Basdeo Panday	Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
United Kingdom	Bhikhu Chotalal Parekh	member, British House of Lords
United States	Sam Pitroda	Indian American entrepreneur and Indian communications policymaker
United Kingdom	Vikram Seth	Novelist and poet
United States	M. Night Shyamalan	Indian American film screenwriter, director and producer
Fiji	Vijay Singh	Indo-Fijian golfer
	Dr. Sant Singh Virmani	Rice scientist
United Arab Emirates	Yusuffali M.A.	Owner of EMKE Group (Abu Dhabi based Indian congleramate)

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Awardees for 2004

Country	Name	Description
Thailand	Dipak Jain	Dean, Kellogg School of Management
United States	late Kalpana Chawla	Astronaut
Zimbabwe	Justice Ahmed Moosa Ebrahim
Guyana	Bharrat Jagdeo	President of Guyana
Fiji	Mahendra Pal Chaudhry
Kuwait	Dr. Marian Chisti
United Kingdom	Lord Meghnad Desai	Economist, Writer, Labour politician
United States	Narinder Singh Kapany
United States	Shashi Tharoor	Writer
New Zealand	Sukhi Turner	Fmr. Mayor of Dunedin, New Zealand

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See also

• Pravasi Bharatiya Divas
• Non-resident Indian and Person of Indian Origin

The Government of India recognizes the first week of January as the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (Hindi: Pravasi - Non-resident or diaspora, Bharatiya - Indian, Divas - day). ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

References

• Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards
• Official Press release referring to the 2007 awards