Yashokirti Award

The Yasho Kirti Award is installed by Shri Avinash Shirode in the memory name of his late mother Sou. Shevantabai Shirode. This award is in the form of a trophy and certificate.

Every year, CSI, Nashik Chapter celebrates the Chapter Day as ‘IT Day’ in Nashik. On this occasion, the Yasho Kirti award is given by the Hon. Chief Guest of the function. This award will be given to such a professional from the IT field, who has come up in his/her career from adverse circumstances and has achieved excellence through sheer hard work and intelligence.

Normally the society recognizes a person from his/her present position at the top but nobody knows how he has achieved this top position. There are many stalwarts who had to struggle very hard in their initial stage. They have very little education, no finance, no support, and no social background. They have started from adverse conditions and circumstances, from scratch and through constant struggle and hardships achieved the top position by honesty, sincerity, and loyalty to their work and of course, they had some ambition, some dreams, and some vision.

The society is unaware of such personalities. The basic idea of installing this award was to present such personalities before the society, particularly to the young generation who always finds lacuna with the facilities, opportunities and the social system. Such personalities are indeed the inspiration to our society and young upcoming entrepreneurs.

Award Recipients

Year	Recipient of the award	Award given at the hands of
2017	Dr. Baisa L. Gunjal received "Yasho-Kirti Puraskar 2017" from the Computer Society of India	Padmashri Dr. Deepak B. Phatak, I.I.T. Powai in "Information Technology Day" function held at Nashik Engineering Cluster, Ambad, Nashik on 10/3/2017.
2014	Dr. Gajanan Kharate Researcher, author of various books on IT topics, dean of faculty of engineering of Pune University and Principal at Matoshri College of Engineering	Felicitated by Shri Chintawar, VP, Bosch, Nashik
2013	Dr. Sandip Kumar Jha	Padmashri. Prataprao Pawar, Shri. Vivek Sawant
2012	Shivajirao Adhalrao Patil
2011	Mrs. Vidya Kabara	Dr. Arun Jamkar, VC, MUHS
2010	Mr. Narayan Aher	Prof. Trimurthi, President CSI
2009	Prof. Gaikwad	Prof. Trimurthi, President CSI
2008	Prof. G V Garje, Head Comp/IT, PVG COE	Dr. D B Phatak
2007	Mr. Khandbahale
2006	Mr. Anand Kulkarni, GM, BSNL	Mr. Uday Nirgudkar IT & Management expert
2004	Mr. Vivek Sawant, MD, MKCL	Dr. Nitin Anturkar, Executive Vice-President, Tata Autocomp Systems Ltd Mr. Madhav Digraskar, VP, ABB Ltd.
2003	Mr. Sudarshan Natu, Managing Director, NitAl Computer Systems Pvt. Ltd., Pune	Mr. L N Sunderrajan Sr. Vice President, IT, Aditya Birla Group
2002	Prof. R. S. Tiwari Director, school of computer science, YCMOU, Nashik	Dr. Ashok Kolaskar, Ex. Vice Chancellor, Pune Univ. Mr. Vandanrao Potnis, editor, daily Gavkari