The Geeta Chopra Award is a prestigious civilian award in India, mainly given to the children under the age of 16 years, for their acts of bravery. The award is given under the National Bravery Awards category that was introduced in the year 1957, by the first Prime Minister of India, Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru. The Geeta Chopra Award was introduced for the first time in the year 1978, in memory of one of the two Chopra children, who died while fighting against their kidnappers. Geeta was the girl among the two children and hence, the award named after her is given exclusively to the brave girls. The Prime Minister of India presents the award to the awardees, along with the other National Bravery Awards. Since 1978, a number of girls have become Geeta Chopra Awardees for their outstanding deeds of bravery and selfless sacrifice.























A partial list of the Geeta Chopra Awardees is given below:

Year	Name	Notes	Age	Indian state of origin
2000	Heena Bakshi	Foiled robbery attempt.	13 years	Haryana
2001	Prem Kanwar	Lost life while trying to rescue four other children from drowning.	13 years	Rajasthan
2002	Guddiben Kalubhai Masher	Saved an infant’s life by fighting a wild animal.	13 years	-
2003	Ramseena R.M.	Lost her leg, while trying to save a child from a speeding car.	12 years	Kerala
2004	Boya Geethanjali	For fighting seven armed Naxalites at Ananthapuram village, securing the release of a woman Member of Legislative Assembly they were trying to abduct, and forcing the Naxalites to flee.	12 years	Andhra Pradesh
2005	Seidalyne Mawtyllup	For saving her three month old sister from a blazing house.	10 years	Meghalaya
2006	Vandana Yadav	For fighting three local goons single-handedly, suffering 17 stab wounds, and later turning up to identify culprits in the police station.	13 years	Uttar Pradesh
2007	Lalrempuii	For resisting her rapist even though she lost her life in the bargain.	14 1/2 years	Mizoram
2008	Prachi Santosh Sen	For saving four children from getting electrocuted, in which her left hand had sternly burnt.	10 years	Madhya Pradesh
2009	Maibam Prity Devi	For saving several lives when she rushed and threw away a grenade hurled at her family-owned shop by miscreants, herself hit by exploding splinter.	10 years	Manipur