The Umesh Dobhal memorial function will be held at Bageshwar in Kumaon on April 6-7 this year. For their journalistic contribution, Bhaskar Upreti from the print media and Komal Mehta from electronic media will receive the 2012 award presented in memory of journalist late Umesh Dobhal.The names of the award winners were announced by a panel comprising senior journalists Kamal Joshi, Anoop Mishra from Kotdwar, GP Semwal and Anil Bahuguna from Pauri and Vimal Negi of the Umesh Dobhal Trust.
General secretary of the Trust, lalit Kothiyal said that former Uttarakhand chief minister Bhagat Singh Koshiyari will be the chief guest on the first day of the Umesh Dobhal memorial function while Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha Speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal will be the chief guest on the concluding day of the memorial function. The function is being organised jointly by Uttarakhand Working Journalist Union, Bageshwar and Umesh Dobhal Trust Pauri. Seventy two years old Tara Chand Tripathi will be presented the Umesh Dobhal Smriti Samman for his consistent work in the field of history, language and local language while Shobha Behen, disciple of 70-years old social worker Sarla Behen working on the border of Bageshwar and Pithoragarh at Dharamgar will be presented the Rajendra Rawat Jan Sarokar Samman.
Charu Chandra Chandola will be awarded the Girish Tiwari Girda Jan Kavi Samman for his work in poetry while Ravi Kiran Jain will deliver a talk on decentralised system as the keynote speaker in the function.