K Karunakaran award presented to Pranab Mukherjee

Wednesday, December 21, 2011: Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on Wednesday lauded the contribution of Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in helping the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government at the Centre function effectively and cohesively.
Dr. Singh, who presented the K. Karunakaran Foundation Best Administrator of India Award- 2011 to Pranab Mukherjee at a function here in his address said: “Pranab Mukherjee, much like Karunakaran, is a politician of the old school.
There are few people in our politics today, who can match his long and exemplary record of public service.”The award carries a purse of Rs one lakh, citation and memento. A four-time chief minister of Kerala, Karunakaran died in December last.

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