Madhya Pradesh
Announcement of National and State Honors of Culture Department
- 22 Dec 2022
- 3 min read
Why In News?
- On December 21, 2022, the Madhya Pradesh Culture Department has announced the state summit awards for the year 2021. National and state awards will be given in this.
Key Points
- Director of Madhya Pradesh Culture Department Aditi Kumar Tripathi said that every year the Culture Department gives honors at the national and state level in various genres of art, culture, literature, music. The cultural identity of Madhya Pradesh has been established at the national level with these national and state honors by the department.
- All the artists and poets selected for the state summit award are given an honorarium of one lakh rupees each, a certificate of honor and a shawl-shriphal.
- The artists/literature artists selected for the State Summit Award are:
- Hindi literature - Dr. Ashwini Kumar Dubey (Indore)
- For Urdu Literature- Dr. Narendra Virmani (Indore)
- For Sanskrit literature - Bhagwati Lal Rajpurohit (Ujjain)
- For classical music- Pt. Shridhar Vyas (Ujjain)
- For classical dance - Dr. Vijay Sharma (Bhopal)
- For Rupankar Arts - Anil Kumar (Bhopal)
- For the play - Prashant Khirwadkar (Bhopal)
- For playing rare musical instruments - Munne Khan (Bhopal)
- For tribal and folk arts - Sawni Bai (Dindori)
- Artists/literature artists selected for national awards are:
- National Kabir Samman - Dr. Shyam Sunder Dubey (Hata) (Rs 3 lakh)
- National Maithili Sharan Gupta Samman - Sadanand Gupta (Gorakhpur) (Rs 2 lakh)
- National Iqbal Award - Syed Taqi Abdi (Rs 2 lakh) from Hyderabad
- National Sharad Joshi Award - Shriram Parihar (Khandwa) (Rs 2 lakh)
- Rashtriya Nanaji Deshmukh Samman - Tribal Welfare Centre Mahakoshal (Dindori) (Rs 2 lakh)
- Rashtriya Kumar Gandharva Samman - Ms. Rukmini Vijay Kumar (Hyderabad) (Rs 1.25 lakh)
- National Information Technology Award - Ravi Shankar Srivastava (Bhopal) (Rs 1 lakh)
- National Nirmal Verma Samman - Ms. Shikha Varshney (London) (Rs. 1 lakh),
- National Father Kamil Bulke Award - Dr. Hines Werner Weisler (Denmark) (Rs 1 lakh)
- National Gunakar Mule Samman - Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (Kolhapur) (Rs 1 lakh)
- Rashtriya Hindi Seva Samman - Ajit Vadnerkar (Bhopal) (Rs 1 lakh).
