pune union minister for communication and information technology dayanidhi maran and the late parliamentarian shrikant jichkar are among the winners of the bharat asmita national awards instituted by the punebased maharashtra institute of technology mit school of management in 2004the winners of the awards which will be presented on february 3 by lok sabha speaker somnath chatterjee here in pune were announced by former chief election commissioner tn seshan at new delhi on thursday the awards consist of a citation and cash prize of rs 125 lakhwhile seshan is the chairman of the awards committee other members in the committee include directorgeneral of the council for scientific and industrial research raghunath mashelkar computer scientist vijay p bhatkar former mumbai police commissioner jf riberio educationist prof yashpal and founder director of mit vishwanath karad among otherswhile maran will be presented the bharat asmita janapratinidhi shrestha award for being an exponent of good parliamentary practices and democratic values jichkar is being awarded bharat asmita janapratinidhi shrestha award posthumously for his contribution towards promotion of democratic valuesjayaprakash narayan of the hyderabadbased ngo loksatta will be given the bharat asmita janajagaran shreshta award for being the best mass media person engaged in public awakening menu rammohan rao will be given the bharat asmita acharya shreshtha award for his contribution in the field of management educationaccording to rahul karad from mitsom the prime objective behind setting up these awards was to present role models for the future generation to follow in their footsteps the awards is an initiative to recognise the contribution of these achievers in the field of politics management education mass media and journalism he added