Verna Elizabeth Watre Ingty: Difference between revisions

'''Verna Elizabeth Watre Ingty''' was an Indian social worker and a former chairman of Meghalaya State Welfare Advisory Board.<ref name="Deccan Herald">{{cite web | url=http://archive.deccanherald.com/Deccanherald/jan152004/update2.asp | title=Deccan Herald | newspaper=Deccan Herald | date=15 January 2004 | access-date=14 February 2015}}</ref> She was the president of Mothers' Union of Tura. She was honoured by the [[Government of India]] in 2003 with [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest Indian civilian award,<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Padma Awards |date=2015 |access-date=6 February 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014 }}</ref> making her the first person from [[Garo people|Garo]] tribe to receive the award.<ref name="Telegraph India">{{cite web | url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1030128/asp/northeast/story_1613713.asp | title=Telegraph India | publisher=Telegraph India | date=28 January 2003 | access-date=14 February 2015}}</ref> Ingty died, aged 72, at Shillong, Meghalaya on 14 January 2004.<ref name="Deccan Herald" /> Her son, P. W. Ingty is an author and an IAS officer.<ref name="Bhaskara: The Last of the Varmans: Kamarupa Series">{{cite book | url=https://www.amazon.in/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&field-author=P.+W.+Ingty&search-alias=stripbooks | title=Bhaskara: The Last of the Varmans: Kamarupa Series | publisher=Strategic Book Publishing | author=P. W. Ingty | year=2013 | pages=120 | isbn=978-1622123056}}</ref>

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