Senior Citizen Awards Episode II

Senior Citizen Awards Episode II

MUMBAI: CNN-IBN, in partnership with Paranjape Schemes Construction Limited announces the first edition of Senior Citizen Awards – The Unstoppables, to acknowledge the indomitable spirit of the senior citizens who have made a significant contribution to society. The second episode of Senior Citizen Awards features the inspirational stories of Keepu Tsering, who has pledged to save her community from extinction by ensuring that she gives children of the Lepcha community in Sikkim a good education, hope and confidence to achieve greater heights; Merzaban Patel, a 63-year-old hockey coach who has trained Olympians and now dreams of building an academy where players can be trained professionally; Girish Bhardwaj, who started a social movement to connect people from different villages by constructing low-cost suspension bridges; and Chandrashekhar Sankuratri, who after losing his wife and kids in a tragic plane crash, started a school and later an eye hospital for the underprivileged in his village in Andhra Pradesh.

Watch the first episode of Senior Citizen Awards on Sat, 16th Nov @ 1:30 PM and repeat telecast on 7.30 PM only on CNN-IBN.