President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday conferred 106 Padma awards to individuals hailing from completely different fields similar to artwork, public affairs, science, and so on – to honour their contributions for the betterment of the society. Among the many Padma Shri awardees, a video of Hirbai Ibrahim Lobi of her interacting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi is being broadly shared on social media – as the 2 shared a touching second.
Lobi, who hails from Gujarat was conferred the award for her in depth work for the betterment of the state’s Siddi group and ladies’s empowerment. On the occasion, when Lobi encountered PM Modi sitting within the entrance row, together with a number of union ministers, she stopped to say a couple of phrases of appreciation for him.
On seeing her, the corridor echoed with clapping and PM Modi bowed after which the 70-year-old Padma awardee conveyed her sentiments.
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“Mere pyaare Narendra Bhai, apne hamari jholi khushiyon se bhar di (Expensive Narendra Bhai, you have got crammed our lives with happiness),” she was quoted as saying by information company ANI. “No one gave us any recognition and no person bothered about us until you probably did and also you introduced us to the forefront,” she added because the viewers as soon as once more gave an enormous spherical of applause.
Who’s Hirbai Ibrahim Lobi?
Lobi is the president of ‘Adivasi Mahila Sangh’, also called ‘Siddi Ladies’s Federation’. Introduced up by her grandparents, she works to supply schooling to the kids of the Siddi group by many balwadis which she has based. She has additionally labored for the monetary independence of the ladies of the Siddi group.
Cooperative actions, household planning, group colleges are a number of the initiatives that she spearheaded or is related to. Earlier than this recognition, she has been the recipient of a number of awards similar to ‘Samman Patra’ by Gujarat Agriculture College in Junagadh, ‘Ladies’s World Summit Basis’s Prize for Ladies’s Creativity in Rural Residing’, ‘Jankidevi Bajaj Puraskar for Excellent Lady Rural Entrepreneur’ in 2006.