PATNA: The state government will present the Dr Rajendra Prasad Shikhar Samman for the year 2020-2021 and a cash prize of Rs 3 lakh to Hindi critic and poet, Vishwanath Tiwari, soon for his valuable contributions in the field of literature.
Announcing the Hindi Sevi Samman Awards on Monday, the additional chief secretary of the state cabinet, Sanjay Kumar, said a sum of Rs 19.5 lakh would be distributed among 15 littérateurs.
The winners include Ashok Kumar (Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Award), Mrinal Pande (Jannayak Karpoori Thakur Award), Sushila Takbhore (B P Mandal Award), Kavi Satyanarayan (Nagarjuna Award), Ram Shreshth Deewana (RashtraKavi Dinkar Award), Jabir Husain (Phanishwar Nath Renu Award), Poonam Singh (Mahadevi Verma Award), Vanja of Kerala (Babu Ganga Sharan Singh Award), Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabh (Vidyakar Kavi Award), Geeta Shree (Vidyapati Award), Rakesh Kumar Sinha ‘Ravi’ (Mohanlal Mahto Viyogi Award), Bhagwati Prasad Dwivedi (Bhikhari Thakur Award), Chhaya Sinha (Dr George Grierson Award), and Anant Vijay (Dr Father Kamil Bulcke Award).
The recommendations for the awards have been made by a six-member committee headed by the vice-president of the Sahitya Akademi (Delhi), Madhav Kaushik.
