Lions Council of India honours its social leaders in Chennai

The Lions Council of India will present its national awards in Chennai on Monday, June 1, recognising people whose long-running social work has left a mark across the country. A.P. Singh, the international president of Lions Clubs International, is in town for it and will speak about the humanitarian work the organisation carried out through 2025-26 and what it is planning next.

The numbers behind the body are not small. Lions Clubs International is the largest service-club organisation in the world, with more than 1.4 million members across over 200 countries. In India alone it runs upwards of 8,500 clubs and counts around 290,000 members, working in vision care, healthcare, diabetes awareness, disaster relief, education, youth programmes and the environment.

At the national level, the Council uses these awards to put its volunteers and social leaders in front of the room rather than its office-bearers. The Chennai event, anchored by Council chairman G. Babu Rao, will run through highlights of the recognition awards and introduce some of the recipients and the work that earned them a place on the list.

The gathering takes place at ITC Grand Chola in Guindy on the evening of June 1, with Singh briefing the press before the awards are handed out.