Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra, a noted voluntary organization based at Hazaribag, has bagged two prestigious awards recently. On 22 November, it won Bridgestone Mobility Social Impact Award 2022.On behalf of the organization, Satish Girija, Secretary and Anand Abhinav, Program Director have received a citation & trophy with Rs. 10 lakh as award money from Lila Poonawala and Firoz Poonawala in auspicious presence of Parag Satpute, MD, Bridgestone and Apurv Choube, CHRO, Bridgestone at Pune.The Bridgestone Mobility Social Impact Awards identify, recognize and promote sustainable mobility innovations that employ advanced technologies and solutions for social advancement. NBJK has been conferred with the award for restoring eyesight to rural poor with avoidable blindness and reinstating their mobility, social life as well as study or livelihood. It made eye health services mobile and accessible in villages through eye screening camps; door to door eye screening, free of cost OPD & Cataract Surgery along with free transportation of eye patients to & fro it’s four charitable base hospitals in Jharkhand & Bihar.Likewise on November 30 at Secunderabad, NBJK received Mary Glowrey-Liliane Brekelmans Disability Award 2022 instituted by The Catholic Health Association of India (CHAI) & Liliane Foundation. The award under the category of “Role Model NGO/Institution in India” outside CHAI network was conferred to Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK) with an honour cheque worth Rs. 02 lakh. This is a well-reputed recognition for the work NBJK is doing for the mainstreaming and inclusion of persons with disabilities (PwDs) in Jharkhand & Bihar. After getting the MGLB Award 2022, Girija said that for the last two decades we have been working constantly towards making lives easy for physically & mentally challenged people. We have tried to associate a marginalized community with mainstream activities like their identification, treatment, certification, organization, rehabilitation, rights advocacy etc and put special effort for visually impaired as well as carers of all such dependent persons, he pointed out.