New Delhi: BJP chief Amit Shah on Sunday heaped lavish praise at RSS for its effort to integrate North East with rest of India as he felicitated noted Gandhian Natwar Thakkar for his life-long contribution in connecting the NE people with the mainstream.
Giving away the ‘‘Karmyogi Award 2015’’ by My Home India, a Mumbai based NGO, working for the cause of national integration, Shah said that Mahatma Gandhi had inspired many youths to work for the country and exuded confidence that the youths will take inspiration from Natwar Bhai’s life sketch.
Thakkar’s work in Nagaland includes vocational training for school dropouts and physically handicapped, opening primary schools in villages, medical centres, libraries and computer centre in the village and making the residents self-employed by engaging in agriculture and jaggery-making and by setting up oil mills, biogas plants, mechanised carpentry shops and khadi sales counters.
Octogenarian Thakkar, a dedicated Gandhian, who settled in Chuchuyimlang village in Mokokchung district of Nagaland and worked tirelessly for decades for the NE people recalled his association with India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and leaders of all other streams on this occasion.
Shah said that while many people sacrificed their lives to attain freedom, people like Thakkar dedicated their life for the nation. (PTI)
