Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar
Carried water, tea and food to soldiers posted near his Ferozepur village during Operation Sindoor (May 2025).
2025-12-26 · Supporting source ↗
Community support · INDIA
Shvan Singh
Carried water, tea and food to soldiers posted near his Ferozepur village during Operation Sindoor (May 2025).
10 when reported in December 2025
Punjab · India
Image source ↗ · Saptashwa TV
Source photograph · credit and provenance below
BEHIND THE RESULT
The recognition
Shvan Singh of Ferozepur district, Punjab, received the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar 2025 in the Social Service category, presented by the President of India, Droupadi Murmu, in New Delhi on 26 December 2025. The official award citation records that during Operation Sindoor in May 2025 he carried water, tea, milk and cold drinks to soldiers posted near his border village.
Help, close to home
Regional reporting describes Shvan making repeated trips from his home to the soldiers’ posts during the operation, and an Army honour reported as ‘Youngest Civil Warrior’. Those details come from regional reports rather than the award list itself, so this story keeps them attributed. What is documented at national level is simpler: a ten-year-old who saw people serving near his home and found a way to serve them too.
A spark to explore
Help does not have to be large to matter. Think of someone who works for your neighbourhood — a guard, a driver, a sanitation worker. What is one small, safe thing a student could do to make their day easier? That is a reader question from us, not part of Shvan’s record.
Source-based story · the activities are prompts for readers.
Open the article edition →The achievement, in context.
Sources you can explore.
PMRBP 2025 official awardee list · December 2025 ↗Government award list (reproduction)
PTC News · December 2025 ↗Regional news report
TV9 English · December 2025 ↗National news report
Original source ↗Another spark to discover.
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