National Bravery Award

This article is about the Indian awards. For the Irish awards, see Comhairle na Míre Gaile.

Winners of National bravery awards – 2011

The National Bravery Awards are a set of awards given annually to about 25 Indian children below 18 years of age for "meritorious acts of bravery against all odds." The awards are given by the Government of India and the Indian Council for Child Welfare (ICCW).[1] The award was instituted in 1957.The youngest national award was awarded to Veerangana Jhala in 2022 when she was only 6 years old from a village called Chuda in Gujarat.

  1. ^ National Bravery Award ‘Govt. of India Portal.