Ravish Kumar, Managing Editor, NDTV India was awarded 'Ramon Magsaysay Award' for the year 2019. The award organization tweeted that Ravish Kumar has been given this honor "to become the voice of irresponsibility.

Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation said in this regard, "Ravish Kumar's program 'Prime Time' raises the real, untold problems of ordinary people." In his honor, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati also congratulated via Twitter.

Mayawati tweeted that "Congratulations to NDTV's Managing Editor and the country's leading journalist Ravish Kumar for being honored with the 2019 Rayman Magsaysay award. It is hoped that the country's media world will continue to serve the nation and the Constitution with its responsibility of being the fourth pillar of democracy with fearlessness. "

Ravish Kumar has been associated with NDTV since 1996. In the early days, he used to sort out the letters. After this, he turned towards reporting and his aware and irony eyes recognized the country and the society accurately. His program 'Raviish's Report' became very popular and became the program of the common people of India.