Mahtab Bamji has been selected for the Living Legend Award of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences ((IUNS).
- Bamji is a former Director-grade scientist of the Hyderabad-based, National Institute of Nutrition
- She is associated with the Dangoriya Charitable Trust.
- She has been contributing to the efforts of the trust to help improve the nutrition and health status of poor farmers and villagers in Narsapuram on the outskirts of Hyderabad.
- She will be awarded at IUNS's General Assembly which is scheduled to be held at the IUNS-ICN in Buenos Aires, Argentina on October 18.
- The award is given to individual members of Adhering Bodies in good standing who are eighty (80) years or above
- It recognises those who have significantly contributed to the work of national nutrition society or regional organisation and contributed to the advancement of nutrition at national, regional and global level through professional activities such as research, teaching, services.
