Hasina nominated for Indira Gandhi Gold Plaque

Sheikh HasinaStar Online Report

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been nominated for this year's Indira Gandhi Gold Plaque as she had significant contribution to human development.
The prime minister of Bangladesh was also nominated for the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2009.
The Asiatic Society of Kolkata awards the “Indira Gandhi Gold Plaque” annually to an eminent person of international repute for significant contribution to international understanding or inter-cultural cooperation or for significant contribution towards human progress.
Outgoing Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty during his farewell call on the prime minister at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) handed over a letter of the Asiatic Society to her in this regard on Sunday.
The letter reads: “The Council of the Asiatic Society in its meeting decided, unanimously, to confer the Indira Gandhi Gold Plaque 2009 on Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh.”
Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela were awarded with the plaque respectively in 1987 and 1989. Other recipients of the plaque included Dr Javier Pervez de Cuellar, 1988, Rev Desmond Titu, 1990, Yasir Araft, 1993, Aung San Suu Kyi, 1995, Dr Gabriel Garcia, 1998, Gunter Grass, 1999, Fidel Castro, 2000, Ernst Steinkellner, 2006, Pranab Mukherjee, 2008, Dinkar Kowshik, 2007, Somnath Hore, 2004, Ustad Bismillah Khan, 2003, Pandit Ravi Shankar, 2001, and Prof Amartya Sen, 1994.
The prime minister and the Indian high commissioner discussed various matters of national, regional and international development, Prime Minister’s Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad told reporters after the meeting.