Award function of Sahitya Akademi, Madhya Pradesh Sanskriti Parishad will be held at State Museum here on February 9 and 10. On the first day, February 9, all-India level awards will be given to 10 litterateurs and State awards to 16 litterateurs.
Minister of State for Culture and Tourism Surendra Patwa will be the chief guest while former Director of Kalidas Sanskrit Akademi Ujjain Acharya Krishna Kant Chaturvedi will preside over the function. Social worker and academician Shridhar Paradkar will also be present.
For all-India level awards, Rs 51,000 and State-level awards Rs 31,000 each with memento, shawl-coconut and citation will be given for year 2011 and 2012 to Prabha Dixit, Rameshwar Pandey (Pt. Makhanlal Chaturvedy Award-Essay), Bina Budki (Gajanan Madjav Muktibodh Award-story), Ashok Jamnani and Sneh Thakur (Raja Veer Singhdeo Award-novel), Pramod Sharma and Krishna Murari Mishra (Pandit Ramchandrea Shukla Award-criticism) and Suresh Chandra Shukla and Chandrasen Virat (Raja Bhavani Prasad Mishra Award-poetry.
The State-level awards for year 2011 and 2012 will be conferred to Devendra Deepak (Pt Balkrishna Sharma “Naveen” Award), Madhur Kulshreshtha and Padma Sharma (Subhadhra Kumari Chouhan Award-story), Prem Bharti and Anamika Tiwari (Krishna Saral Award-poetry), Aarti Dube and Prof Bl Aachchha (Nand Dulare Vajpayee Award), Kanti Kumar Jain and Vivek Ranjan Shrivastava (Hari Krishna Premi Award-drama/one act play), Vasant Sakargaye and laxminarayan “Shobhan” (Rajendra Anuragi Award-criticism, light essays, diary, memoirs etc), Anup Ashesh and Manohar Manu ( Dushyant Kumar Award-first publication of writer) and Alpana Sharma and Jagdish Prasad Rawat (Isuri Award-lok Bhasha)
All the decorated litterateurs will deliver their lectures on “Challenges Before literature and Our Responsibility” on February 10 at 11 am. Shridhar Paradkar will be the chief guest while Giriraj Sharan will preside over the function. Prof Mira Gautam will also be present on the occasion.