|
Says
Network 18 managing director Raghav Bahl, " The year 2008
was an extraordinary year in terms of global economic crisis.
The year taught everybody from politicians to policy makers to
businessmen lessons on how to manage crisis. For businessmen 2008
was a year to stop running on bloated balance sheets and begin
fresh management of accounts while for policy makers it was time
to check the policies again in order to save the Indian economy
from further effects of economic crisis as the time when the crisis
had begun the country was relatively safe as compared to other
economies."
Meanwhile
veteran Hindi cinema actor Dilip Kumar was honoured with the Lifetime
Achievement award and New Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit
was conferred with Special Achievement award.
Assistant
sub inspector late Tukaram Omble and the Mumbai Police who fought
bravely at the time terror attack on 26 November, 2008 were bestowed
with the award of Extraordinary Service to the Nation.
"CNN-IBN
Indian of the Year award recognises the outstanding contributions
of Indians in various categories. This initiative is an attempt
to recognise the contribution of individuals who stood first amongst
equals," adds IBN18 Network editor-in-chief Rajdeep Sardesai.
Earlier
on 30 January, CNN-IBN had announced the category-wise winners
which included Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar in Politics,
while Olympic Gold medalist-Abhinav Bindra was declared the winner
in Sports category. The category of Business saw HDFC Bank MD
Aditya Puri as the winner and Aamir Khan was announced as the
winner in the Entertainment sector.
Finally,
the Global Indian award went to AR Rahman.
The
winners were chosen through a four-tier election process, where
the IBN 18 editorial board drew the list of nominees; followed
by voting of the electoral college and the citizens of India and
the jury having ratified it. The process was audited by Ernst
& Young.
|