Dubai born NRI  Simran Vedvyas Makes Every Moment Count

Change through her work & action recognized

NRI of the Year Awards  A Prestigious Award for Global Indians

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Times Now, ICICI Bank and GIIS Global Indian International School presented the prestigious NRI of the Year Awards 2017 at Mumbai, felicitating select Global Indians with India s most distinctive global awards.  This award recognized the deserving spirit of those globetrotting Indians who have made a change by their work and action reaching the pinnacles of success globally by rising every day. 

From more than twenty five thousand nominations in various coveted award categories including the field of Entrepreneurship, Philanthropy, Academics, Arts and Business Professionals and start ups, twenty-three non-resident Indians received the honour. The entire process of the awards right from the nominations to choosing the winners had a five tier evaluation process managed by Ernst & Young and the eminent jury participation.

SIMRAN born and raised in Dubai, bagged the award in the Academics Category in the awards fourth edition.  She is the youngest Emirates Women of the year  Young Achiever for the region and believes that  Youth are the Future Champions.

The press continued to say, Simran is persuasive, ambitious, dependable, an achiever who thoroughly enjoys executing anything with a big impact.

Simran, at 18 has reached out, influenced & benefitted thousands to serve humanity & environment beyond boundaries.  She finds herself continuously self-motivated to dreaming large and achieving big.  As a responsible global youth citizen, Simran, has remarkably led over 75 successful youth engagement campaigns through her youth group SynergY including Green Space New Life that witnessed 3,000 trees planted at landfills across UAE, & Convoy to Feed that distributed food supplies to nearly 4,000 workers at various landfills. She holds the record of winning Six highest National Academic distinctions received in consecutive years including thrice winning the Sheikh Hamdan Award and also thrice the Sharjah Education Award. She has been recognized at home & abroad for her academic & humanitarian achievements. 

At 12, chosen as the youngest from the region to carry the Olympic Flame at the London Olympics in 2012, she moved forward with her social & environmental work & never looked back.  Success for her lies in the belief that at the end of the day her actions have a positive effect on those around her. 

The Global India Impact Award was bagged by the team of record breaking and the biggest blockbuster bollywood movie of all times Baahubali and it s team of writer Mr. V Vijay Prasad and celebrity actress Tamaannah Bhatia.

The evening was graced by glamorous presenter Sophie Choudry and the famous Indian actor and model Karan Tacker.  Manushi Chhillar Femina Miss India 2017, Sana Dua 1^st runner-up and Priyanka Kumari 2^nd runner up were also present.  The stunning performances form Terence Lewis Contemporary Dance Company mesmerised the audience at the event.

LINKS

http://www.nrioftheyear.com/award-nights/2017-the-4th-season/

http://welcomenri.com/nri/news/dubai-based-teenager-nri-of-the-year-award.aspx

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