Shatayu Samman is an award given to persons who lived for a century, by the Government of
Madhya Pradesh
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, India. This award is being given to encourage consciousness about health.
Recipients
*Parasram Gurjar
(10 October 1886 – 10 December 2011)
He was awarded Shatayu Samman on 1 October 2011 on World Elders' Day.
See also
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Centenarian
A centenarian is a person who has reached the age of 100. Because life expectancies at birth worldwide are well below 100, the term is invariably associated with longevity. The United Nations estimated that there were 316,600 living centenarian ...
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Supercentenarian
A supercentenarian, sometimes hyphenated as super-centenarian, is a person who is 110 or older. This age is achieved by about one in 1,000 centenarians. Supercentenarians typically live a life free of significant age-related diseases until short ...
References
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Indian centenarians