नानाजी देशमुख भारत के एक समाज सुधारक और राजनीतिज्ञ थे। उन्होंने शिक्षा, स्वास्थ्य और ग्रामीण स्वावलंबन के क्षेत्र में काम किया। नानाजी देशमुख, जिनका पूरा नाम चंडिकादास अमृतराव देशमुख था, एक प्रमुख भारतीय सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता, राजनीतिज्ञ होने के साथ-साथ एक विचारक भी थे।
नानाजी देशमुख का जीवन निस्वार्थ सेवा, सामाजिक उद्देश्यों के प्रति प्रतिबद्धता और समाज और राष्ट्र की भलाई के लिए अटूट समर्पण का एक ज्वलंत उदाहरण है। ग्रामीण विकास, स्वास्थ्य सेवा, शिक्षा और राजनीति के क्षेत्र में उनके योगदान ने भारत पर एक अमिट छाप छोड़ी है।
11 अक्टूबर, 1916 को महाराष्ट्र के परभणी जिले के छोटे से शहर कडोली में जन्मे नानाजी देशमुख संघ परिवार के दिग्गज, जनता पार्टी के संस्थापक सदस्य और भारतीय जनता पार्टी के सबसे वरिष्ठ सदस्यों में से एक थे।
नानाजी देशमुख छोटी उम्र से ही समाज सेवा के प्रति समर्पित थे। वह समाज के वंचित और हाशिए पर मौजूद वर्गों के उत्थान के उद्देश्य से की गई कई सामाजिक पहलों का हिस्सा थे। शिक्षा, स्वास्थ्य सेवा और ग्रामीण विकास के क्षेत्र में उनका योगदान विशेष रूप से उल्लेखनीय था।
Nanaji Deshmukh : Biography
| Nanaji Deshmukh Information | |
| Full Name | Chandikadas Amritrao Deshmukh |
| Born | October 11, 1916 |
| Born Place | Kadoli, Parbhani District, Hyderabad State, British India (present-day Kadoli, Hingoli District, Maharashtra, India) |
| Died | February 27, 2010 |
| Political Party | Bharatiya Jana Sangh |
| Education | BITS Pilani |
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27 फरवरी, 2010 को 93 वर्ष की आयु में उनका निधन चित्रकूट में हो गया। उनके निधन के बाद, उनकी इच्छा के अनुसार, उनका शरीर अखिल भारतीय आयुर्विज्ञान संस्थान (एम्स) को दान कर दिया गया।
समाज सेवा के प्रति नानाजी देशमुख के अथक समर्पण और राष्ट्र निर्माण में उनके योगदान ने उन्हें कई प्रतिष्ठित पुरस्कार और सम्मान दिलाये। राष्ट्र के प्रति उनकी असाधारण सेवाओं के सम्मान में उन्हें 1999 में भारत के दूसरे सबसे बड़े नागरिक पुरस्कार पद्म विभूषण से तथापि 2019 में देश का सबसे बड़े नागरिक सम्मान भारत रत्न (मरणोपरांत) से सम्मानित किया गया।
Bharat Ratna Award List
| Year | Recipients | About |
| Bharat Ratna 1954 | C. Rajagopalachari | Activist, statesman, and lawyer |
| Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan | India’s first Vice-President and second President | |
| C. V. Raman | Physicists, mathematicians, and scientists | |
| Bharat Ratna 1955 | Bhagwan Das | Activist, philosopher, and educationist |
| M. Visvesvaraya | Civil engineer, statesman, and Diwan of Mysore | |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | Activist and author served as the Prime Minister of India | |
| Bharat Ratna 1957 | Govind Ballabh Pant | Activist and first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh |
| Bharat Ratna 1958 | Dhondo Keshav Karve | Social reformer and educator |
| Bharat Ratna 1961 | Bidhan Chandra Roy | Physician, political leader, philanthropist, educationist, and social worker |
| Purushottam Das Tandon | Activist and speaker of the United Provinces Legislative Assembly | |
| Bharat Ratna 1962 | Rajendra Prasad | Activist, lawyer, statesman, and scholar |
| Bharat Ratna 1963 | Zakir Husain | Activist, economist, and education philosopher served as a Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University and the Governor of Bihar |
| Pandurang Vaman Kane | Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, known for his five-volume literary work | |
| Bharat Ratna 1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri | Activist and served as the second Prime Minister of India |
| Bharat Ratna 1971 | Indira Gandhi | First women Prime Minister of India |
| Bharat Ratna 1975 | V. V. Giri | Trade Unionist |
| Bharat Ratna 1976 | K. Kamaraj | Independence activist and statesman, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu |
| Bharat Ratna 1980 | Mother Teresa | Catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity. |
| 1983 | Vinoba Bhave | Activist, social reformer, and a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi |
| Bharat Ratna 1987 | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | First noncitizen, independence activist |
| Bharat Ratna 1988 | M. G. Ramachandran | Actor turned politician, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu |
| Bharat Ratna 1990 | B.R. Ambedkar | Social reformer and leader of the Dalits |
| Nelson Mandela | Leader of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa, President of South Africa | |
| Bharat Ratna 1991 | Rajiv Gandhi | Gandhi was the ninth Prime Minister of India serving from 1984 to 1989. |
| Vallabhbhai Patel | Activist and first Deputy Prime Minister of India | |
| Morarji Desai | Activist, and Prime Minister of India | |
| Bharat Ratna 1992 | Abul Kalam Azad | Activist and first Minister of education |
| J. R. D. Tata | Industrialist, philanthropist, and aviation pioneer | |
| Satyajit Ray | Director, filmmaker, writer, novelist | |
| Bharat Ratna 1997 | Gulzarilal Nanda | Activist, and interim Prime Minister of India. |
| Aruna Asaf Ali | Activist | |
| A.P.J Abdul Kalam | Aerospace and defense scientist | |
| Bharat Ratna 1998 | M. S. Subbulakshmi | Carnatic classical vocalist |
| Chidambaram Subramaniam | Activist and former Minister of Agriculture of India | |
| Bharat Ratna 1999 | Jayaprakash Narayan | Activist, and social reformer |
| Amartya Sen | Economist | |
| Gopinath Bordoloi | Activist | |
| Ravi Shankar | Musician, sitar player | |
| Bharat Ratna 2001 | Lata Mangeshkar | Singer |
| Bismillah Khan | Hindustani classical shehnai player | |
| Bharat Ratna 2009 | Bhimsen Joshi | Hindustani classical vocalist |
| Bharat Ratna 2014 | C. N. R. Rao | Chemist and professor, author |
| Sachin Tendulkar | Cricketer | |
| Bharat Ratna 2015 | Madan Mohan Malaviya | Scholar and educational reformer. |
| Atal Bihari Bajpayee | Elected nine times to the Lok Sabha, twice to the Rajya Sabha, and served as the Prime Minister of India for three terms. | |
| Bharat Ratna 2019 | Pranab Mukherjee | Indian politician, and senior leader in the Indian National Congress. |
| Nanaji Deshmukh | A social activist from India, education, health, and rural self-reliance. | |
| Bhupen Hazarika | Indian playback singer, lyricist, musician, singer, poet, and filmmaker from Assam. |
