Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award
The Governor-General, Rt Hon Sir Anand Satyanand, was one of 15 overseas Indians to be awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award from the President of India, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil at the conclusion of the ninth Pravasi Bharatiya Divas-2011, in New Delhi on 9 January 2011.