Amrita Patel gets Mahindra lifetime achievement award

On 3rd  March 2016 chairman of Charutar Arogya Mandal and former chairman of the National Dairy Development Board Amrita Patel, , was awarded the prestigious Mahindra Samriddhi Krishi Shiromani Samman in Delhi.
•    It is also considered as the Lifetime Achievement Award.
•    Radha Mohan Singh, Union Minister of Agriculture, presented the award to Patel .
•    Mahindra Samriddhi India Agri Awards are given to the farmers and institutions to recognize their noteworthy and purposeful contribution to the field of agriculture.
•    Other winners of the Mahindra Samriddhi India Agri Awards (MSIAA) 2016 are:
•    Mahindra Samriddhi  Krishi Samrat Samman - Farmer of the Year Award (Male) - Land holding less than 5 acres -Mahendra Patidar
•    Mahindra Samriddhi  Krishi Samrat Samman - Farmer of the Year Award (Male) - Land holding from 5 to 20 acres -Krishnpal Singh Mourya
•    Mahindra Samriddhi  Krishi Samrat Samman - Farmer of the Year Award (Male) - Land holding more than 20 acres - Neelam Dutta
•    Mahindra Samriddhi Krishi Prerna Samman - Farmer of the Year Award (Female)- Sugan Bai Patidar
•    Mahindra Samriddhi Krishi Yuva Samman- Farmer of the Year Award (Youth)- P Jawahar Raja
•    Mahindra Samriddhi Krishi Sansthan Samman - Recognition for Public Sector organization- Indian Institute of Soil Science Bhopal
•    Mahindra Samriddhi Krishi Shiksha Samman - Recognition for Agricultural Universities - Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University, Hyderabad
•    Mahindra Samriddhi Krishi Sahyog Samman - Recognition for NGOs / SHGs- Rajasthan Rural Institute of Development Management, Udaipur
•    Amrita Patel played an important role in the implementation of Operation Flood, the largest developmental programme in the world.
•    Programme helped to promote, finance and deliver a variety of supporting services to a national cooperative dairy structure that transformed the lives of millions of marginalised and small farmers and milk producers.
•    She was awarded Padma Bhushan in 2002.