Report: Ayya
Government has presented the annual awards for outstanding service to the public, the special awards for achieving distinctions for the country abroad, and the special prizes for producing Dhivehi literary works for children to Government-approved standards, at the official function, held last night at Dharubaaruge, to mark this year’s Republic Day. The awards and prizes were presented to recipients by the President.Awards of honor for outstanding service to the public were awarded to six individuals this year Mr. Gasim Ibrahim for philanthropic activities, Habeeba Hussain Habeeb for writing, Aminath Yoosuf and. Yoosuf Hussain for traditional medicine, Maizan Umar Maniku for fisheries, and Ibrahim Ismail Ali for sports.
31 individuals and 12 organizations were presented with awards of recognition for outstanding service to the public, at last night’s function. The fields is which awards of recognition were conferred included language and literature, oratory skills, education, tutoring the recitation of the Holy Quran, health, fisheries, agriculture, tourism, export promotion, social service and community work, empowerment of women, tailoring, craftsmanship, construction, information technology, carpentry and boat-building, painting, sports, singing, music production, acting, culinary skills and cake decoration.
Also, Maldivian Air Taxi Private Limited and Japanese national Akira Tateishi, were presented with special awards for outstanding service to the public in the field of tourism promotion.
The awards for special achievement for achieving distinction for the country abroad were presented to 28 individuals, including six recipients of doctoral research degrees.
In addition, eight individuals received the special prize for producing literary works for children to Government-approved standards.
In his address at last night’s function, President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom congratulated the recipients of the awards and prizes.
Mr. Mohamed Kaleem, who was conferred the award of recognition in the field of sports, delivered the vote-of-thanks on behalf of the recipients.
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