AHMEDABAD,November 26:Former Gujarat minister Anil Patel who handed the impressive award trophies to the winners described the latter as India’s ‘informal ambassadors’.Those felicitated were Abu Dhabi’s industrialist Padma Shree Dr BR Shetty (Karnataka), Bahrain-based senior journalist Soman Baby (Kerala), famed US allergist Padma Shree Dr Sudhir Parikh (Gujarat), Norway’s social reformist Edward Dawes, Canada’s top-drawere engineer and religious Zoroastrian scholar Firdosh Mehta (Mumbai) and ICT
expert Neville Roy from Australia (Gujarat). Two eminent non-resident Indians (NRIs) from Abu Dhabi and Bahrain were among the six achievers who were honoured with ‘NRI Visionary Awards’ here on
Thursday evening by Vision Foundation.
