The writers and poets will be awarded for their contribution to literature. Three National and Twelve Memorial Awards have been announced by the Dushyant Kumar Memorial Manuscript Museum.
According to the selection committee of the museum, National Dushyanta Aaward will be given to Mukesh Verma, Zonal Language Award will be awarded to Ramnaresh Tiwari 'Nishtur' of Rewa and Mayank Shrivastava will be awarded with long standing Sadhana Samman.
Giving this information, the director of the museum, Rajurkar Raj, told that on the occasion of Basant Panchami the awards were announced. In the Dushyant Kumar Memorial Manuscript Museum, Chairman Ramrao Vamankar, Patroness Manoj Singh Meek, Mahendra Singh Chauhan and Ashok Nirmal and Director Rajurkar Raj were present.
According to the announcement, Rashtriya Dushyant Kumar ornamentation will be given to the country's famous storyteller Mr. Mukesh Verma. Along with this, famous lyricist Mayank Srivastava will be honored with long-term Sadhana Samman and Shri Ramnaresh Tiwari of Rewa will be honored with zonal language award.
He informed that twelve commemorative honors have also been announced by the museum. Accordingly, Kamleshwar Award to Ramakant Shrivastava, Kanhaiyalal Nandan Award to Vikas Dave, Vitthalbhai Patel Award to Bharat Aluminum Co. Ltd. (Balco, Korba), Balakavi Bairagi Award to Suresh Tiwari, Rajendra Joshi Award to Vinod Nagar, Sushma Tiwari Award to Prabha Mishra, Akhilesh Jain Award to Navendu Vajpayee (Mumbai), Braj Bhushan Sharma Award Lata Aggarwal, Vijay Shirdhonkar Award will be given to Arun Tiwari, Anshlal Pandre Award will be given to Vivek Savarikar Mridul, Baburao Gujre Award will be given to Ashok Bulani and Ram Adhir Award will be given to Shiv Kumar Archan.
Memorial awards will be goven on February 28 and national awards will be given on March 21 in an award ceremony.