Though it may be true that people who are singled out for special recognition for their work and given awards are deserving of the praise and honors bestowed upon them, it is not right, except in one kind of case, for government organizations or public institutions to bestow such awards. That is because many other people who also are deserving are mistakenly not recognized and are, with the one kind of exception, therefore implied to be undeserving. It is unfair and demoralizing to people who are deserving to imply they are not by recognizing a limited group of others as being those, and thus only those, who are meritorious. The process of selection in these cases is not only subjective but subject to the vagaries of chance knowledge and familiarity.
Merit, character, and achievement should go unrecognized. It just means the recognition should be of a personal or private institutional nature. However, since the same problems plague even private institutions in selecting those to be given awards, many of the same arguments below will apply.
The possible exception is where awards or honors are given in a way that show they are non-exclusive and are obviously deserved because of something meritorious that is apparent to almost anyone. If someone does something obviously exceptional or worthy, there is nothing wrong with pointing that out publicly, as long as there is not the implication attached to it that this act or this person is the only one worthy of praise or honor, and as long as there is not the implication that this is the most worthy act or person, since that may not be true, and should therefore not be the official position of a governmental agency.
Part of what makes institutional awards seem exclusive is that they are given out on something like an annual event where some, or some specific pre-determined quota of, people are singled out as deserving of awards. The implication in such a situation is that those not being so honored are not deserving, or are less deserving. That is a very different thing from an institution’s praising or honoring someone whose contribution they have noticed and particularly want to point out and explain. In this latter case, the institution makes quite clear their recognition does not exclude anyone else’s merit, and that they are simply praising someone for something that has been particularly noticed while not implying what has gone unnoticed that other people may have done is any less important or worthy.
Yet this is not the case with M.S.Faizal Khan as the long list of awards decorated or bestowed on him are quite deserving and undoubtedly deserving given his antecedents and feats speak volumes. The list includes;
Trivandrum Chamber of Commerce Business Achiever Award for 2014.
Vivekananda Youth Icon Award Initiated by Nehru Yuva Kendra.
Times of India Excellence Asian Diaspora Achievers Award 2011 & 2015 respectively.
Youth Icon Award Instituted by youth commission – 2015, Govt of Kerala.
Professor N.A Karim Award for Outstanding Public Service, 2017
Vaikkaom Maulavi Award for Prominent Social Work,2017
Gurudeva Puraskaaram for Social Services by Sivagiri Madom
First Court, Maulana Azad Urdu University (Govt. of India), 2018
Nominated by the Hon. President of India.
