Current award List announced

Awards this Month December 2009 India – “Polio Championship Award National Innovation Foundation (NIF), Maulana Abul Kalam award, President of the Press Association for 2009-10, Bharat Muni Samman, e UNICEF Award for HIV/AIDS Journalism, 2009


Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was on December 6, 2009 conferred with the “Polio Championship Award” by the International Polio Plus Commission of Rotary International for his “great support and encouragement” in endorsing polio immunization for the children of Bihar.

Writer Iqbal Mateen will get this year’s Maulana Abul Kalam award of the Uttar Pradesh Urdu Academy for his contribution to Urdu literature.

It carries a cash prize of Rs 5 lakh. The Amir Khusrau Award, carrying a cash reward of Rs. 1.5 lakhs, will be given to Bekal Utsahi while five other awards of Rs 1 lakh each will be given to Masror Jahan, Hanif Tareen, Sajida Zaidi, Mohd Ishaq Siddiqui and Fazal Husnain. Premchand Award, carrying a cash reward of Rs 1 lakh, will be given to Pradeep Jain of Muzaffarnagar.

K.V. Prasad of The Hindu was chosen as President of the Press Association for 2009-10at an election held in New Delhi on December 12, 2009.


Scientist Yash Pal and Project Director of Chandrayaan-1 M. Annadurai have been chosen for the H.K. Firodia awards for 2009. Former winners of the award include A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, M.S. Swaminathan, Jayant Narlikar and Samir Brahmachari.

Narayan M. Bhat, Programme Executive, All India Radio, Karwar, has been selected for the UNICEF Award for HIV/AIDS Journalism, 2009 for his article on HIV/AIDS published in Lokadhwani.



•Padma Vibushan awards:-
◦ This year's awards comprise 6 Padma Vibhushan, 43 Padma Bhushan and 81 Padma Shri awards.
◦ ‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service; ‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order and ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any field.
◦ The awards are conferred by the President of India at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhavan sometime around March/ April.


•Tagore awards:-

◦ Eight literatures were awarded on Monday, the first Tagore Literature Awards 2009 for their contributions to Bengali, Bodo, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Punjabi and Telugu.
◦ Instituted by the Sahitya Akademi and Samsung Electronics, the winners were chosen from across different genres of essays, poetry, biography and autobiography for literary works between 2005 and 2008.
◦ First Lady of the Republic of Korea Kim Yoon-ok presented the awards. The awardees are:


■ Alok Sarkar for “Apapabhumi” (Bengali),
■ Brajendra Kumar Brahma for “Raithaihala” (Bodo),
■ Bhagwandas Patel for “Mari Lokyatra” (Gujarati),
■ Rajee Seth for “Ghame-Hayat Ne Mara” (Hindi),
■ Naseem Shafai for “Na Thsay Na Akas” (Kashmiri),
■ Chandrasekhar Kambar for “Shikara Soorya” (Kannada),
■ Jaswant Singh Kanwal for “Punya Daa Chanan” (Punjabi) and
■ Kovela Suprasannacharya for “Antharangam” (Telugu).

◦Each award carries
-> prize money of Rs. 91,000.
-> a trophy.