KOKRAJHAR, DEC 7: The imminent educational reformist, and engineer turned prominent intellectual thinker of the country, Sonam Wangchuk has been named for the 20th edition Upendra Nath Brahma Soldier of Humanity Award 2023. The Upendra Nath Brahma Trust (UNBT) announced the conferment of Upendra Nath Brahma Soldier of Humanity Award 2023 to Sonam Wangchuk, who is regarded as a prestigious award presenting from the Bodo community in the name of Bodofa Upendra Nath Brahma, former president of All Bodo Students Union ( ABSU) to keep alive ideology and philosophy of the great personality.
In a press statement on Thursday, Dr Subung Basumatary, chairman of Upendra Nath Brahma Trust ( UNBT) said that the trust has decided to confer the Upendra Nath Brahma Soldier of Humanity Award to engineer turned educational reformist Sonam Wanchuk on recognition his dedication services towards the welfare and uplift of the educational arena amongst the citizens.
“We are immensely pleased to confer the 20th edition of Upendra Nath Brahma Soldier of Humanity Award 2023 to great person like Shri Sonam Wanchuk, who is awarded with several prestigious awards including Ramon Magsaysay”,hebl said adding that the award will be presented on 23rd December 2023 at a programme to be held Bodofa Cultural Complex in Kokrajhar.
The award consists of memento, cash award of Rs. 2 lakh, a citation, indigenous waist coat and an
Aronai.
Remarkably, Sonam Wangchuk, whose remarkable life story inspired the blockbuster ‘3 Idiots’, was born on 1st September, 1966 near Alchi in the Leh district of Ladakh, India. He completed his B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Srinagar (then REC Srinagar) in 1987.
The Ladakh-based engineer is known for setting up his innovative school, the Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL), whose campus runs on solar energy and uses no fossil fuels for cooking, lighting, or heating. He so far received many prestigious awards and recognitions for his noble deeds. Some of the noted awards are – Governor’s Medal for Educational reform in Jammu & Kashmir in 1996, Green Teacher Award by Sanctuary Asia in 2004, Global Award for Sustainable Architecture in 2017 and others.
Dr Basumatary has made an apealed to all citizens of the region to participate in the award conferring ceremony in Kokrajhar.
