Nation
al Bravery Award for Indian Children is given each year by Government of India and Indian Council for Child Welfare (ICCW), to Indian children for meritorious acts of bravery against all odds.
The award is given to around 24 children below the age of 16. One of two coveted awards in this category are the Sanjay Chopra Award and Geeta Chopra Award instituted in 1978, in the memory of Chopra children who laid their lives while confronting their kidnappers and are given to a boy and a girl respectively for acts of bravery. The highest award in the category is the Bharat Award, constituted in 1987, and the Bapu Gayadhani Award was instituted in 1988.
The Award
The award includes a medal, a certificate and cash award, the Bharat Award winner gets a gold medal, while the rest get a silver medal. Further they are also given financial assistance to complete their schooling, as a part of ICCW's sponsorship programme and professional courses such as medical and engineering, under the Indira Gandhi scholarship scheme.
In 2009, the Government of India announced reservation of some seats in Medical and Engineering Colleges and Polytechnics for the winners of the award.
List of Awards
- Bharat Award, since 1987
- Sanjay Chopra Award, since 1978
- Geeta Chopra Award, since 1978
- Bapu Gayadhani Award, since 1988
- National Bravery Award, since 1957
Awardee's List (26th Jan. 2012)
| S.No. | Name | State |
| 1 | Master Kapil Singh Negi : posthumously | Uttarakhand |
| 2 | Master Om Prakash Yadav | Uttar Pradesh |
| 3 | Km. Mittal Mahendrabhai Patadiya | Gujarat |
| 4 | Late Master Adithya Gopal | Arunachal Pradesh |
| 5 | Master Uma Shankar | Delhi |
| 6 | Km. Anjali Singh Gautam | Chhattisgarh |
| 7 | Master Yandam Amara Uday Kiran | Andhra Pradesh |
| 8 | Master Suthrapu Shiva Prasad | Andhra Pradesh |
| 9 | Master Ranjan Pradhan | Chhattisgarh |
| 10 | Km. Sheetal Sadvi Saluja | Chhattisgarh |
| 11 | Km. Divyaben Mansangbhai Chauhan | Gujarat |
| 12 | Master Sandesh P Hegde | Karnataka |
| 13 | Km. Sindhushree B.A | Karnataka |
| 14 | Master Mohammed Nishadh V.P | Kerela |
| 15 | Master Anshif C.K | Kerela |
| 16 | Master Sahsad K | Kerela |
| 17 | Master Johnson Tourangbam | Manipur |
| 18 | Master Kshetrimayum Rakesh Singh | Manipur |
| 19 | Late Master C. Lalduhawma | Mizoram |
| 20 | Km. Prasannta Shandilya | Orrisa |
| 21 | Master Dungar Singh | Rajasthan |
| 22 | Master G. Parameswaran | Tamil Nadu |
| 23 | Late Km. Lovely Verma | Uttar Pradesh |
| 24 | Late Km. Saudhita Barman | West Bengal |
Awardee's List (26th Jan. 2011)
| S.No. | Name | State |
| 1 | Jismi P.M. | |
| 2 | Priyanshu Joshi | |
| 3 | Chhampa Kanwar | |
| 4 | Shruti Lodhi | |
| 5 | Moonis Khan | |
| 6 | Sunita Murmu | West Bengal |
| 7 | Gurjeevan Singh | Punjab |
| 8 | Kalpana Sonowal | Assam |
| 9 | Rekhamoni Sonowal | Assam |
| 10 | Rahul Kurrey | Chhattisgarh |
| 11 | Parvati Amlesh | Chhattisgarh |
| 12 | Anoop M. | Kerala |
| 13 | Raj Narayanan | Kerala |
| 14 | Rohit Maruti Mulik | Maharashtra |
| 15 | Mohammed Nurul Huda | Manipur |
| 16 | Freedy Nongsiej | Meghalaya |
| 17 | Lovelystar K. Sohphoh | Meghalaya |
| 18 | Lalmawizuali | Mizoram |
| 19 | Shrawan Kumar | Rajasthan |
| 20 | Bibek Sharma | Sikkim |
| 21 | Uttam Kumar | Uttar Pradesh |
| 22 | IPI BASAR |
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