At a celebration in Mumbai on Wednesday, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma presented prominent industrialist and Tata Trust Chairman Ratan Tata with the state’s highest civilian award, the ‘Assam Baibhav.’
At a ceremony in Koloba, Mumbai, the Assam Chief Minister presented Tata with the state’s highest civilian award.
Tata received the prize for his outstanding contribution to the advancement of cancer care in Assam. It comes with a citation, a medal, and a monetary prize of Rs. 5 lakh.
Tata was supposed to receive the prize during a ceremony on January 24, but he was unable to attend owing to personal circumstances.
“He has made a remarkable contribution to developing cancer care in Assam as an industrialist and philanthropist,” Sarma added.
On January 24, Governor Jagdish Mukhi presented 18 additional notable individuals in various disciplines with the state’s two other civilian honours, the ‘Assam Saurav’ and ‘Assam Gaurav.’
Earlier this year, the Assam government presented 18 remarkable individuals from various areas with the state’s three highest civilian honours. Ratan Tata, however, was unable to attend the actual award ceremony, which took place on January 24 in Guwahati’s Srimanta Sankaradev Kalakshetra.
Ratan Tata was previously awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 2008 and the Padma Bhushan in 2000.
Tata Sons and the Assam government are collaborating to develop a large cancer care network, with Ratan Tata playing a key role. So I came to Mumbai to present Ratan Tata with the highest civilian award in Assam,” According to Himanta Biswa Sarma,
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The foundation stones for 19 modern cancer treatment facilities were laid in 2018. Twelve of these were for comprehensive cancer care centres on the campuses of the state’s government medical colleges.
This network was supposed to go live in April of this year. It was created with the goal of ensuring that no patient would have to travel more than a few hours to receive a full range of cancer treatments.
“Cancer care in India is hampered by a lack of infrastructure, late diagnosis, and exorbitant treatment costs,” Tata remarked at the 2018 event. The Tata Trusts have pledged to address this by assisting in the development of infrastructure for high-quality, affordable care across the country, as well as nationwide screening and early detection programmers. If we can achieve this with partners, India will be able to drastically boost survival rates, similar to rich countries.
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