NEW DELHI: 27 people have been selected on Monday for the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award (PBSA), the highest honour for overseas Indians.

The seventeenth edition of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas  Convention will be held from January 8-10 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. 

President Droupadi Murmu will present the award as a part of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention, which takes place from January 8–10 in Indore.

Jagadish Chennupati, Sanjeev Mehta, Dilip Loundo, Alexander Maliakel John, Vaikuntam Iyer Lakshmanan, Joginder Singh Nijjar, Ramjee Prasad, Kannan Ambalam, and Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay are among the honorees who shown excellence in their fields and were chosen for this award.

The panel also suggested Mohamed Irfaan Ali, Reena Vinod Pushkarna, Maqsooda Sarfi Shiotani, Rajagopal, Amit Kailash Chandra Lath, Parmanand Sukhumal Daswani, Piyush Gupta, Mohanlal Hira, Sanjaykumar Shivabhai Patel, Sivakumar Nadesan, and Dewanchandrebhose Sharman as award recipients.

The jury-cum-awards committee's proposed awardees include Archana Sharma, Justice Frank Arthur Seepersad, Siddharth Balachandran, Chandrakant Babubhai Patel, Darshan Singh Dhaliwal, Rajesh Subramaniam, and Ashok Kumar Tiwary.

The Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award (PBSA) is the highest honour conferred on Indian Diaspora. The Hon'ble President of India awards the PBSA to non-resident Indians, people of Indian origin, or organisations and institutions founded and run by non-resident Indians or people of Indian origin in recognition of their outstanding accomplishments both in India and abroad as part of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention.

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