Maharashtra Education minister Vinod Tawde today asked Ramon Magsaysay award winners Bharat Vatwani and Sonam Wangchuk to become the brand ambassadors of the state to enhance the emotional quotient of its people.
Tawde was speaking at a function here to felicitate Vatwani and Wangchuk and asked both winners to collaborate and work for society.
Vatwani was recognised for "his tremendous courage and healing compassion in embracing Indias mentally-afflicted destitute, and his steadfast and magnanimous dedication to the work of restoring and affirming the human dignity of even the most ostracised," the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation had said in its citation for the winner.
Wangchuk was recognised for "his uniquely systematic, collaborative and community-driven reform of learning systems in remote northern India, thus improving life opportunities of Ladakhi youth."