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MP
announces cultural awards, National Iqbal Award goes to Gopichand Narang
Friday July 29, 2011 08:50:07 AM,
Pervez Bari, ummid.com
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Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh
Government has announced national awards instituted in different
disciplines for the years 2008-09 and 2009-10. Though some awards
for these years have already been conferred, however the remaining
awards have now been announced.
Culture Minister Mr. Laxmikant Sharma informed that well-known
painter Jairam Patel of Gujarat will be conferred on national
Kalidas award for the year 2008-09 in plastic arts while Guru
Kalamandalam Gopi has been selected for honouring with national
Kalidas award in classical dance and well-known vocalist Pt.
Chhanulal Mishra will be given away national Kalidas award in
classical music.
Similarly, national Maithilisharan Gupta award instituted in
literature will be given away to well-known writer of Bhopal
Ramesh Chandra Shah. Besides, national Tulsi award for male
artists in folk-arts will be conferred on Rangaswami Vedar of
Chennai. National Iqbal award constituted for Urdu literature will
be given away to Gopichand Narang of New Delhi.
National Devi Ahilya award to be given in folk-arts will be
conferred on Kalbelia dancer Ms Gulabo of Rajasthan. Well-known
satirist K.P. Saxena of Lucknow has been selected for national
Sharda Joshi award. National Kumar Gandharva award in classical
music for youth artists will be given away to Pt. Sanjeev
Abhyankar of Pune.
The State Government has also announced national Kalidas award in
plastic arts for the year 2009-10. The well-known painter Krishna
Kanhai of Mathura has been selected to be honoured with this
award.
It may be mentioned here that a sum of Rs. 1 lakh 25 thousand is
given under national Kumar Gandharv award while an amount of Rs.
two lakh each is given under other remaining awards. Along with
this, the awardees are also given a letter of citation, shawl and
“shrifal” (coconut) as a mark of honour. Award ceremony programme
will be organised in Bhopal.
The awardees are as follows:
Award 2008-09: National Kalidas award (plastic arts)- Jairma
Patel; National Kalidas award (classical dance)-Kalamandlam Gopi;
National Kalidas award(classical music)- Chhanulal Mishra;
National Maithilisharan award(literature)-Ramesh Shah; National
Tulsi award (folk-arts,male)-Rangaswami Vedar
National Iqbal award (Urdu)-Gopichand Narang; National Devi Ahilya
award (folk-arts)- Ms Gulabo; National Sharad Joshi award satirist
K.P. Saxena and
National Kumar Gandharv (classical music)- Sanjeev Abhyankar
Award 2009-10: National Kalidas award (plastic art)- Krishna
Kanhai.
(pervezbari@eth.net)
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