ICAR- CIFA, Bhubaneswar’s magazine has been awarded the prestigious Rajbhasha award “Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Hindi Patrika Puruskar 2018-2019” recently through video conferencing on the occasion of 92ndfoundation day of ICAR, New Delhi by Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar.
Director General, ICAR Dr Trilochan Mohapatra was present through video conferencing during celebration of foundation day of ICAR, New Delhi.
The ICAR, New Delhi awards annually the “Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Hindi Patrika” for the magazine published in Hindi by ICAR institutes. This year, after evaluation of official language magazines published by various institutes of the Council by a High Level Committee, ‘Neelitima’ was selected for the first prize.
Neelitima is an annual official language magazine published by the ICAR-CIFA. The editors of Neelitima, vol 09, year 2018-19 are Dr DK Verma, Dr Shailesh Saurabh and Rakhi Kumari.