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With Padma Vibhushan for Wipro chairman Azim Premji, and Padma Bhushan
for Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan, NIIT Â founder chairman R
S Pawar and HCL Infosystems chairman Ajai Chowdhary, IT industry has
managed to bag four Padma awards in 2011. This is the highest number of
Padma awards bagged by any one industry in any one year so far. This
marks yet another landmark in the government's increasing and explicit
acknolwdgement of the IT industry's contibution to the nation building. Though the government was href="http://dqindia.ciol.com/content/spotlight/2010/110020502.asp">late
to recognize it, with four
awards in one year, it has more than compensated for the href="http://dqindia.ciol.com/content/spotlight/2010/110020502.asp">late
recognition. Â
Last year had seen Deepak Puri, the founder and CEO of Moser Baer
bagging Padma Shri. Azim Premji is the second from the industry to bag
Padma Vibhushan. Infosys chairman and founder N R Narayana Murthy had
bagged the award in 2008.
Interestingly, most of the Padma awardees have won Dataquest IT person
of the year, Lifetime Contribution or Pathbreaker awards. This year's
winners Azim Premji, who won Padma Bhushan in 2005, won Dataquest IT
Person of the Year in 1999 and href="http://dqindia.ciol.com/content/top_stories/2009/109092403.asp">Dataquest
Lifetime contribution award in 2009.
Ajai Chowdhary won the href="http://dqindia.ciol.com/content/top_stories/2007/107121003.asp">Dataquest
IT Person of the Year award in 2007.
R S Pawar won the Dataquest IT Person of the Year award in 1998.
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