Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has announced to institute a new award known as ‘Jagannath Pahadia Nau Aamoz Urdu Sahitya Award’ to encourage the new Urdu learners in the State. The award will carry Rs 21,000 in cash and would be conferred upon those new Urdu learners who would be able to take themselves upto the level of recognition through their creativity in three years.
The announcement was made on behalf of the Chief Minister by Additional Principal Secretary to Chief Minister and executive vice-chairman of Haryana Urdu Academy KK Khandelwal in ‘Sahityakar Samman Samaroh’ organised by the Academy at Haryana Raj Bhawan here on Wednesday.
On this occasion, Haryana Governor Jagannath Pahadia honoured 19 litterateurs for their outstanding contribution to further enrich Urdu language and literature in the State. He also honoured eight writers of Urdu on completion of 75 years of their age and for doing commendable work in the promotion of Urdu language.
Khanelwal described Urdu as a colloquial language and said that Urdu had originated from Haryana. He said that the new award as announced by the Chief Minister would further help in the promotion of Urdu language in the State.