Madhavrao Sapre Museum of Newspapers and Research Institute announced its State level journalism awards on Thursday. The Museum would felicitate senior and young working journalists of the State for excellent work.
This year 15 journalists would be awarded by the Museum with shawl, shrifal and citation. The event will be held on Monday. On the occasion Finance Minister Jayant Malaiya will be present as the chief guest. Besides, the event will be presided by former minister Satyanarayan Sharma and MP Alok Sanjar will be present as the special guest on the occasion. Notably, this year an award for excellent work in political journalism ‘Suresh Khare Memorial Award’ has been introduced. For the year 2018, the award will be given to Sanjeev Shrivastava.
Makhanlal Chaturvedi Award would go to Dainik Bhaskar’s Aman Namr, lal Baldev Singh Award would go to Sunil Mishra of Patrika and Jagdish Prasad Chaturvedi Awrad would go to Vinayak Badodiya of Nav Dunia.
Hukumchand Narad Awar would go to Pawan Sharma of Nav Bharat Times. Santosh Kumar Shukla Public Communication Award would go to Hl Chaudhary, Additional Secretary of Public Relations, Publicity officer of PR Minister Ashok Manavni for creative writing and art and culture. Jhabarmal Sharma Award would go to Sameer Verma, Akashwani, Rameshwar Guru Award to Shivam Poorna monthly magazine and KP Narayan award to Rajendra Sharma of Times of India. Rajendra Nutan Award would go to Dev Shrimali, Yashwant Argare Award to Himanshu Soni of Hari Bhoomi, Jagat Pathak Award would go to People’s Newspaper and Arogya Sudha Award would go to Shafiq Khan of Dainik Jagran. Senior Photojournalist Rajendra Jain would be awarded with Homai Vyarawalla Award.