NCSC to honour Aamir Khan and Star India CEO Uday Shankar on 18 October

The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) has decided to honour Star India CEO Uday Shankar and Aamir Khan for their efforts to create awareness against social discrimination through the latter’s television show Satyamev Jayate. The duo will be felicitated at an award function on 18 October (2013), that has been organised to mark the International Valmiki Day in New Delhi, it has been stated. Aamir made his debut on small screen with the social issue-based show in which he was seen highlighting several important issues like female foeticide, dowry, inter-caste marriage among many others. The show, which was on air for 13-weeks on Star India, was a narrative of real stories from across the country that touched millions of people. "Satyamev Jayate was a natural evolution of content, given Star's steadfast and widening focus on socially relevant issues," Star India CEO Uday Shankar said in a statement. "This recognition will spur us to advance in this path of leveraging the power of TV to act as a change agent," he added. Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, Social, Justice and Empowerment Minister Mukul Wasnik, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni, Chief Minister of Delhi Shiela Dixit and other eminent political and civil society leaders would attend the awards function, the statement added.