Website and Mobile Application of Haryana Sanskrit Academy and Punjabi Sahitya Akademi | 26 Feb 2022

On February 24, 2022, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar launched the website and mobile application of Haryana Sanskrit Academy and Punjabi Sahitya Akademi on the occasion of Haryana Sahitya Parv at Tagore Theatre.

On this occasion, the Chief Minister honored 138 litterateurs of Sanskrit, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu languages. These honors were given under Haryana Sanskrit Academy, Haryana Granth Academy, Haryana Punjabi Sahitya Akademi, Haryana Urdu Academy. It is noteworthy that the Chief Minister is the President of all the four academies.
Lifelong Sahitya Sadhna Samman was awarded to Dr. Kamal Kishore Goenka for the year 2017 and Dr. Suresh Gautam for the year 2018, Madhav Kaushik for 2019 and Gyanprakash Vivek for the year 2020.
Dr. Himmat Singh Sinha Nazim for the Fakhre Haryana Samman for the year 2019, Dr. Kumar Panipati for the year 2020 was given an amount of Rs 5 lakh each and a citation.
Similarly, Mahakavi Surdas Lifetime Sahitya Samman for the year 2017, Dr. Puran Chand Sharma, for 2018, Madhukant, Dr. Santram Deshwal, Dr. Sudarshan Ratnakar and Mrs. Chandrakanta for the
year 2019, Dr. Subhash Rastogi for the year 2020 5-5. Each of them was presented with 5 Lakhs rupees and a citation.
The Chief Minister said that litterateurs of all languages are equal, so the prize money given by the government should also be equal.
He said that a uniform formula should be made regarding the prize money of the literary academies of Haryana. Till now, the four literary academies of Haryana are giving different prize money in the field of literature.