Maharana Mewar Foundation 38th Annual Awards Distribution Ceremony - 2020 Manek Chowk, The City Palace, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation (MMCF) has over the years, been committed to nurturing centres of excellence in heritage management, fine arts, the performing arts, education, ecological management, hospitality, philanthropy, spirituality and sports. Over the last four decades, its activities and endeavours have resulted in employment generation, stemming the rural migration to urban areas and instilling greater pride in traditional professions and craftspeople.

Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation pursues its mission of nurturing cultural values in society by adopting innovative methods of communicating and impacting. The most important of these is providing recognition of excellence, through appreciation and acknowledgment of achievement through existing pursuits.

This year, Maharana Mewar Foundation 38th Annual Award Distribution Ceremony - 2020, an integral part of MMCF, held on Sunday the 01st March 2020 at The Manek Chowk, The City Palace, Udaipur. The distribution ceremony starts with the presentation of certificates to students from schools and universities in Udaipur and across the State of Rajasthan. This is followed by the main Ceremony when the international and national awardees gather on the dais to receive their awards from The Chief Guest Dr. K. Kasturirangan , and Mr. Lakshyaraj Singh Mewar, Trustee, Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation, Udaipur. The ceremony was graced by Tratiya Peethadhishwar Goswami 108 Shri Vrajesh Kumarji Maharaj, Goswami Shri Vedant Kumarji Bawa Saheb in presence of Shriji Arvind Singh Mewar, Chairman and Managing Trustee of Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation, Udaipur.

The international award, instituted in 1996 and named after Colonel James Tod is to honour a foreign national who has made a lasting contribution through his work of permanent value and understanding of the spirit and values of Mewar, Udaipur and India. This year the award is given to Dr. Norbert Peabody. He is working on a re-issue of James Tod's Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan based on the two-volumes first edition published in 1829, which will restore the text to its original with engravings, maps, charts, and appendices and with a special focus on Mewar. Dr. Peabody's Cambridge University entry describes him as an 'anthropologist and historian, whose research focuses on Indian nationalism during the 19th and 20th centuries.'

The National annual award, Haldighati Award, is given to an individual for work of permanent value that initiates an awakening in society through the medium of journalism. This year the Award was awarded to Mr. Raj Chengappa, Group Editorial Director (Publishing) of the India Today Group and Editor of India Today magazine.