Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award

LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI NATIONAL AWARD

The Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award is an annual prestigious award instituted from Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, Delhi. Award is started in year 1999 and provided to business leader, management practitioner, public administrator, educator or institution builder for his/her sustained individual contributions for achievements of high professional order and excellence. This award is given by President of India. This a Award of Citation, Plaque and Cash award of Rupees Five Lakh.

List of Award winners:

1999     :           Prof. C.K. Prahalad

2000     :           Mr. Sam Pitroda

2001     :           Mr. N.R. Narayana Murthy

2002     :           Dr. R.A. Mashelkar

2003     :           Smt. Ela Ramesh Bhatt

2004     :           Dr. C.P. Srivastava

2005     :           Dr.Naresh Trehan

2006     :           Dr. M. S. Swaminathan

2007     :          

2008     :           Dr. E. Sreedharan

2009     :           Shri Sunil Bharti Mittal

2010     :           Smt. Aruna Roy

2011     :           Prof. Yash Pal

2012     :           Smt. Tessy Thomas

2013     :           Dr. Rajendra Achyut Badwe - Director, Tata Memorial Centre and Professor &Head, Department of Surgical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai.

The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee conferred on Smt. Tessy Thomas, the prestigious Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration, Academics and Management: 2012 at a function in Rashtrapati Bhavan. The President congratulated Smt. Tessy Thomas and said that she had made the country proud by her achievements.

In a career spanning over 24 years, Smt. Tessy Thomas has contributed in various fields such as Guidance, Control, Inertial Navigation, Trajectory Simulation and Mission Design. She is also the Associate Project Director (Mission) for Agni-I, II & III systems. She has been associated with the Agni Programme right from their developmental stages. She has designed the guidance scheme for long range missile systems which is used in all Agni missiles. Currently, she is the Project Director of Agni –IV, which is a major project with state of the art technologies. The Agni-IV was successfully flight tested on 15th November, 2011. This is a state of the art system with range to launch mass ratio of 15% better than its equivalent missiles across the world. Smt. Tessy is Project Director (Mission) for the long range Agni – V System also and has successfully flight tested Agni – V on 19th April, 2012. She, as the Technology Director for Mission Design and System Analysis Group of Advances Systems Laboratory, has significantly contributed in the development of various systems associated with missiles technology.