Several journalists of the city were felicitated with different awards at a function organised by Madhavrao Sapre Memorial Newspaper Museum and Research Institute. On the occasion, the journalists were felicitated with State-level journalism awards and a book penned by Acharya Dr Vishnu Dutt Rakesh titled ‘Swami Shraddhanand aur Unka Patrakar Kul’ was also released.
On the occasion, Home Minister Babulal Gaur said that it is essential to have political, social, economic and intellectual freedom in the society and the government is working in this direction, while ensuring intellectual freedom is the responsibility of the journalists. Additional Director of Public Relations department Anil Mathur was conferred with Santosh Kumar Shukla award, while Hukumchand Narad award was bestowed to senior journalist Yugesh Sharma and Santosh Manav was honored with lal Baldev Singh award.
Dr Rajeev Agnihotri was felicitated with Makhanlal Chaturvedi award, while senior journalist Dr Pankaj Shukla was honored with Jagdish Prasad Chaturvedi award. Jhabarmal Sharma award was bestowed to senior cartoonist Hariom Tiwari, while Rameshwar Guru Patrakar award was bestowed to journalist Shefali.
Aarogya Sudha Puraskar was bestowed to senior journalist Pankaj Shukla for environment journalism and Shirish Khare was honored with Rajendra Nutan award. Ruchi Dixit was honored with Yashwant Argare award for art and culture reporting while Praveen Dixit was honored with Homai Vyarawalla award for photo journalism.
littérateur Kailash Pant, former minister Satyanarayan Sharma and former Vice Chancellor of Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and communication Achyutanand Mishra were present on the occasion.