On Friday, the President of Lokmanya Tilak Trust made an announcement that Dr. Cyrus Poonawalla who is the Chairman of the city-based vaccine maker Serum Institute of India (SII).
Dr. Cyrus will be honoured with the prestigious Lokmanya Tilak National Award for 2021.
Poonawalla will receive the award on August 13. Every year the award ceremony is held on August 1, on Tilak’s death anniversary, but due to Covid-19, this year the date of the function has been changed.
Deepak Tilak said, “Lokmanya Tilak award started from 1983. SM Joshi, Comrade Dange, Indira Gandhi, Dr Manmohan Singh, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Pranav Mukharjee, Rahul Bajaj, G Madhvan Nair, and N R Narayanmurthy among other eminent personalities have been felicitated with this award.”
