Meet Uttam Tanti, Laxmi Yedlewar, and Veerangana Jhala, brave young heroes honored with the Prahlad Bravery Award for their selfless acts of courage.
- The Indian Council for Child Welfare has been presenting annual awards to children for bravery since 1957
- This time, children from 17 different states are being honoured for their fearlessness
- In three episodes, we present the stories of three such brave-hearts
- Uttam Tanti, then 10, from Assam saved a mother and child from drowning during the 2019 floods
- Laxmi Yedlewar, then 12, from Maharashtra’s Nanded, saved her cousin from electrocution in 2021
- Veerangana Adityasinh Jhala, 6, alerted residents of a devastating fire in Ahmedabad
Ep 1: How Uttam saved a mother and her 3-year-old daughter
This is the story of Uttam Tanti’s extraordinary valour, for which he is being honoured with the Prahlad Bravery Award by the Indian Council for Child Welfare, a voluntary organisation that has been presenting these awards every year since 1957. This time, children from 17 different states are being honoured for their fearlessness. And 14-year-old Uttam Tanti from Assam is one of them.