c.i.d veerta awards on television.

About the Awards

CID Veerta Awards is an initiative by SONY Entertainment Television to encourage and felicitate acts of bravery in the society. The Award is aimed at bringing to fore the unsung heroes - common people who have committed acts of bravery in real life. CID Veerta Awards also gives the consumers an additional outlet to connect with their favourite show - CID.
The Awards will be given in 2 categories
Physical Bravery (performing a self-less act of bravery at great personal risk to save life, or property of someone else) & Social Bravery (for efforts against social evils like drug abuse, dowry, child labour, illiteracy, environmental pollution, etc).
Within these categories the awards will be further divided into 2 age brackets – people below 15yrs of age & those above 15yrs. In each category, 2 awards will be given (1st & 2nd Prize). Thus there will be 8 Awards in total which will be awarded.
Jury
Each year the jury consists of eminent persons from the society who select the winners from among the thousands of entries received, through an elaborate process. The jury for CID Veerta Awards 2011 are as follows -

1. Ms Asha Parekh the popular Bollywood actress, director and producer, started her acting career under the screen name baby Asha Parekh in 1952 in a film called Aasmaan. Asha Parekh was the first woman to be appointed as the chairperson of Central Board of Film Certification from 1998-2001. She is also the treasurer of the Cine Artistes’ Welfare Association Trust (CINTA), which is a home for many film and television artistes fallen on bad days. Currently, Ashaji devotes all her time to The Asha Parekh Hospital in Mumbai, which is named after her because of her humanitarian contributions. She also has set up a dance academy "Kara Bhavan," which has produced many skilled and talented dancers.
   
   
2. Mr Y K Sapru, founder Chairman of Cancer Patient Aid Association (CPAA), which is one of the premier NGO’s in India, pioneered 40 years ago by patrons like Mrs. Indira Gandhi. Today, it is one of the most professionally run social organizations seeking to provide service for Total Management of the Disease, headquartered in Mumbai and with branches in Pune, Delhi, Chennai. Under his guidance CPAA has progressed from just aid disbursement to the full spectrum of activities from Awareness to Rehabilitation. Today CPAA is the largest NGO in the field of cancer in India.
   
   
3. Mr. Farooq Shaikh, is a veteran actor having worked with stalwarts such as Satyajit Ray, Muzaffar Ali, Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Ketan Mehta. Some of his notable films are Mere Saath Chal, Shatranj Ke Khiladi, Noorie, Chashme Baddoor, Saath Saath, Umrao Jaan, Gaman etc. In 1998 Farooq worked in a French film, Le lepidoptere. He is still actively involved with theatre and his play Tumhari Amrita has received widespread acclaim.
   
   
4. Mr. B P Singh the creator and director-producer of the TV series C.I.D., the longest running TV series in India. Originally from Dehradun, he studied at the Indian Film and Television Institute, Pune. He started his career with state TV – channel, Doordarshan in 1973 as a news camera-man and went on to handle the camera for another 10 years. Today he is one of the most respected TV producers in the country and has been closely associated with the CID Veerta Awards since its inception in 2009.
   
   
5. Mr. Sumit Awasthi's association with journalism started 15 years back. He is presently working as the deputy editor of India's leading news channel - Aaj Tak and the leading news network - TV Today. As a hard core journalist he has covered it all in last one and half decades - from the formation of governments to corporate scams to the match fixing controversy to the mass movements which shook various countries in the recent past. He started his career with Indian Express. His versatility coupled with his penchant for hard-core journalism has made him a reputed prime time anchor.