Bhopal, 26 January (HS): The announcement of the established national awards of the Madhya Pradesh Government, Culture Department was made recently.

The decoration ceremony of these awards is being organized today (Sunday) at 7 pm in Ravindra Bhavan premises. In the ceremony, 14 eminent personalities from the country and abroad will be decorated with seven awards for the year 2022 and 2023. These awards include National Iqbal Samman, National Mahatma Gandhi Samman, National Kabir Samman, National Maithilisharan Gupt Samman, National Devi Ahilya Bai Samman, National Sharad Joshi Samman, National Tulsi Samman, National Nanaji Deshmukh Samman.

Culture Director NP Namdev said that the prestigious awards of Madhya Pradesh Government, Culture Department are given for long-term sadhana and excellent work in the field of literature, art, culture. In the same sequence, Abdus Samad-Patna will be decorated with the National Iqbal Samman from the year 2022.

Vivekananda Needam Sanstha of Gwalior will be decorated with the National Mahatma Gandhi Samman from the year 2022 and Bharat Bharti Shiksha Samiti, Betul from the year 2023. The National Kabir Samman will be conferred on Ramdarsh ​​Mishra, Delhi from the year 2022 and on Liladhar Jagoodi, Uttarakhand from the year 2023. The National Maithilisharan Gupt Samman will be conferred on Dr. Devendra Deepak, Bhopal from the year 2022 and on Neerja Madhav, Varanasi from the year 2023.

Similarly, the National Devi Ahilya Bai Samman will be conferred on Hemlata Upadhyaya, Khandwa from the year 2022 and on Geeta Tyagi, Prayagraj from the year 2023. The National Sharad Joshi Samman will be conferred on Kailashchandra Pant, Bhopal from the year 2022 and on Dr. Prabhat Kumar Bhattacharya, Ujjain from the year 2023.

The National Tulsi Award will be conferred on Raghavraj Bhatt, Hyderabad from the year 2023 and on Dineshchandra Kumhar, Rajsamand (Rajasthan) from the year 2023. The National Nanaji Deshmukh Award will be conferred on Matrichhaya Sanstha, Bhopal from the year 2022 and on Sopanam Institute of Performing Arts and Research, Thiruvananthapuram from the year 2023.

Hindusthan Samachar / Jun Sarkar