16 Litterateurs were honoured on Hindi Day | 16 Sep 2023

Why In News?

• On September 14, 2023, 16 litterateurs were honored in the 'Apni Hindi Apna Bharat' felicitation ceremony, Kavi Sammelan, organized on Hindi Diwas by 'Uttar Pradesh Sahitya Sabha and Indo American Chamber of Commerce' in Lucknow.

Key Points:

• Uttar Pradesh Tourism and Culture Minister Jaiveer Singh felicitated 16 senior litterateurs, writers, lyricists and journalists at the felicitation ceremony.
• Padma Shri Vidya Bindu Singh, Dr. Ram Bahadur Mishra, Vinod Mishra, Mahendra Bhishma, Vinod Shankar Shukla, Dr. Om Prakash Singh, Keshav Prasad Vajpayee, Dr. Sonrupa Vishal, Vinita Mishra, Gajendra Priyanshu, Alankar Rastogi, Neeraj Arora, Dayanand Pandey, Rajkumar Singh, Jagdamba Prasad and Dr. Archana Satish were among those who received the award.
• In this program, the tourism minister said that we are taking the culture of our state abroad and have started from Korea in the first phase.