Red amp; White Bravery Awards announced

MUMBAI, Feb 8: Godfrey Phillips India Ltd GPI announced the 8th Red and White Bravery Awards for the year 1998. Instituted in the year 1990, these awards seek to salute acts of bravery by the common man in real life.

The Red and Bravery Awards are presented in two categories: physical bravery, which covers areas where a person, at great risk to himself, saves another fellow being from a possible threat to life, or by virtue of his act prevents heavy damage to valuable property and social acts of courage, included for the first time in the year 1996, to honor persons who boldly opposed social evils such as dowry, child marriage, illiteracy, environmental abuse and the like.

Last year a prestigious national award for social work was instituted to recognise those who selflessly spent their lives working for the betterment of society. The first Lifetime Award for Social Service, carrying a citation and a cash award of Rs 1 lakh, was conferred on K Lakshmi Raghuramaiah, a highly respected and much reveredsocial worker.