The India Post, Chandigarh 14 August, 2008 :Punjab Government has decided to confer Punjab Sarkar Parman Patra-2008 at the State Level Function of Independence Day on 15th August 2008 at Ludhiana on Dr. Sanjeev Goyal, Registrar, Punjab State Faculty of Ayurveda and Homeopathy and Vaidya Jagjit Singh.
Member, Central Council of Indian Medicine. Both awardees are alumni of Shri Dhanwantri Ayurvedic College, Chandigarh.
Both these doctors have a distinguished track record including commitment to their profession, service to society, champion blood donors (26 times and 30 times respectively), organizing free medical camps in rural areas and slums, checking of quackery and taking up the noble cause of de-addiction.