MTV Youth Icon of the Year
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MTV Youth Icon of the year is an annual award presented by MTV India
MTV India
MTV India is the Indian version of MTV , a channel specialising in music and youth culture programming. It was launched in 1996 and is now part of the Viacom 18 Media Pvt. Ltd based in Mumbai. . "MTV India" is one of the oldest Music Television Networks in Asia...

, a TV channel. It was first presented in 2003. It is determined by popular votes.

Recipients

The proud recipients of the awards are:
  • 2003 : Anil Ambani
    Anil Ambani
    Anil Dhirubhai Ambani is an Indian-Gujarati business baron and chairman of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, one of the largest private conglomerates. Anil's elder brother, Mukesh Ambani, is worth more than 29 billion dollars, and owns another company called Reliance Industries...

     (Indian Industrialist)
  • 2004 : Rahul Dravid
    Rahul Dravid
    Rahul Sharad Dravid , is a cricketer in the Indian national team, of which he has been a regular member since 1996. He was appointed as the captain of the Indian cricket team in October 2005 and resigned from the post in September 2007. Dravid was honoured as one of the top-five Wisden Cricketers...

     (Indian Cricketer)
  • 2005 : Shahrukh Khan
    Shahrukh Khan
    Shahrukh Khan , often credited as Shah Rukh Khan, is an Indian film actor, as well as a film producer and television host. Often referred to as "the King of Bollywood", Khan has acted in over 70 Hindi films....

     (Indian Actor) )
  • 2006 : Mahendra Singh Dhoni
    Mahendra Singh Dhoni
    Mahendra Singh Dhoni is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the Indian national cricket team. He made his One Day International debut in December 2004 against Bangladesh, and a year later played his first Test, this time against Sri Lanka.Under his captaincy, India won the 2007 ICC...

     (Indian Cricketer)
  • 2007 : Orkut
    Orkut
    Orkut is a social networking website that is owned and operated by Google Inc. The service is designed to help users meet new and old friends and maintain existing relationships...

     (A community website by Google
    Google
    Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...

    )
  • 2008 : Award was given to eight persons.
  1. Ankit Fadia
    Ankit Fadia
    Ankit Fadia is an independent computer security consultant. He runs a program on computer security for corporates in alliance with Reliance Info.-Biography:He started a website called "HackingTruths"....

     (Computer security expert, ethical hacker, helped in 9/11 investigations)
  2. Sarath Babu (BITS-Pilani and IIM-A passout, Food King catering business)
  3. Rahul Mishra (Designer from Malhousie(Himachal Pradesh
    Himachal Pradesh
    Himachal Pradesh is a state in Northern India. It is spread over , and is bordered by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir on the north, Punjab on the west and south-west, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on the south, Uttarakhand on the south-east and by the Tibet Autonomous Region on the east...

    ))
  4. MC Mary Kom
    Mary Kom
    Mangte Chungneijang Merykom, also known as MC Mary Kom or Mary Kom, is a female boxer from Manipur, India who is supported by Olympic Gold Quest. Mary Kom, a mother of two, is five times World Boxing Champion, successively...

     (Boxing, recipient of Padma Shri
    Padma Shri
    Padma Shri is the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan...

     and Arjun Award)
  5. Ishita Khanna (Entrepreneur, Founder and Director of Ecosphere)
  6. Nitish Mishra
    Nitish Mishra
    Nitish Mishra is an Indian politician. He is a Minister of state for disaster management in Bihar in Nitish Kumar's government. He set up the flood management information system...

     (Minister of state for disaster management, Bihar
    Bihar
    Bihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....

    , India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

    )
  7. Blaaze
    Blaaze
    Blaaze is a rap artist and a popular playback singer in Indian films. An Indian by birth, born in Chennai, he grew up in Zambia and later did his education in England and in the US...

     (Singer)
  8. Mangesh Hadawale (Director of Marathi
    Marathi cinema
    Marathi cinema refers to films produced in the Marathi language in the state of Maharashtra, India. It is the oldest and pioneer film industry in India...

     film 'Tingya')
    • 2009 : Shahid Kapoor
      Shahid Kapoor
      Shahid Kapoor is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood films. He is also a trained dancer.Starting off his career by working in music videos and advertisements, Kapoor made his Bollywood debut as a background dancer in Subhash Ghai's Taal . Four years later, he made his acting debut in Ishq...

      (Indian Actor).
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