India TV Yuva Awards to honour youth icons tonight

New Delhi, Feb 18: India TV is all set to honour the youth icons of the nation with the first edition of the Yuva Awards at a glittering ceremony in New Delhi today. The awards, to be given away in six categories, namely Politics, Sports, Music, Film, Television and Business are an aspirational salute to those yuva icons, who through their grit and determination have inspired many and shown exemplary leadership & extraordinary excellence in respective fields with achievements much bigger than their age. The winners have been decided basis a stringent process of nominations through a nation-wide research by a well known research agency followed by audience votes. The detailed deliberations by the esteemed Jury, chaired by Sarod Maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and including the Chairman & editor in chief, India TV Rajat Sharma, Cricketing legend Kapil Dev, VLCC founder Padmshri Vandana Luthra and Prof. Pushpesh Pant. Apart from most of the nominees, the event will be attended by a host of personalities that include Cabinet Ministers, Chief Ministers, MPs, Prominent leaders from the opposition, top personalities from Bollywood, Sports & business & media. Just hours away from the inaugural Awards night , Ritu Dhawan, India TV MD & CEO said, “These awards are a salute to the budding next generation of India, it is an honour getting to honour them on behalf of a nation that is on the rise, with a sense of achievement and pride”. Following are the nominations in different categories: Politics (Male) : Akhilesh Yadav, Jitin Prasada, Deepender Singh Hooda, Miind Deora.Politics (Female): Agatha Sangma, Mausam Noor, Chhavi Rajawat and Bhavna Gawali . Sports (Male) : Abhinav Bindra, Yuvraj Singh, Sushil Kumar, Suresh Raina.Sports (female): Mithali Raj, Saina Nehwal, Krishna Poonia, MC Mary Kom. Films (male) : Imran Khan, Ayushmann Khurana, Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor Films (female) : Asin, Sonam Kapoor, Parineeti Chopra and Anushka Sharma.TV (male): Mohit Raina, Siddharth Shukla, Sushant Singh Rajput and Nandish Sandhu.TV (female): Rashmi Desai, Kavita Kaushik, Sakshi Tanwar and Pratyusha Banerjee. Music (male): Sukhvinder Singh, Sonu Nigam, Shaan and Ritesh & Rajnish Mishra.Music (female): Neeti Mohan, Mamta Sharma, Shreya Ghoshal and Sunidhi Chauhan . Business (male) : Pirojsha Godrej, Rishad Premji, Sameer Gehlaut & Rajiv Rattan, and Kavin Bharti Mittal Business (female): Roshni Nadar, Jayanti Chauhan, Ekta Kapoor and Nandini Piramal. The awards have Real Estate major Prateek Group as Presenting Sponsor & Galgotias University as an associate.