Vishnu, Sachhidanad, Rituraj among 32 'Hindi Sewi' honoured

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New Delhi, Aug 30 (UNI) Eminent Hindi litterateurs Pankaj Bisht, Mohandas Naimisharai, Vishnu Chandra Sharma, Manager Pandey, Sachhidanand Sinha, Amritlala Begar besides noted poets Rituraj and Virendra Kumar Baranwal are among 32 writers who have been selected for the prestigious Hindi Sewi awards of the Kendriya Hindi Sansthan for 2003-2004.

The names of the awardees were announced by Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh at a press conference here today.

Each award, instituted in 1989 carries Rs one lakh, a shawl and a citation. The awards will be given away by President A P J Abdul Kalam at Rashtrapati Bhawan on the Hindi Diwas (Hindi day) on September 14.

The Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi award has been given to Om Thanvi, Raj Kishore and Mani Mala besides Mr Bisht and Naimisharai for excellence in journalistic and creative writings.

The work for development of Hindi language and criticism has brought the Subramaniam Bharati award for Vishnu Chandra Sharma, Vijendra Narain Singh Manager Pandey, Vijendra Narain Singh and Rituraj, while the Rahul Sankrityayan award for research and travelogue has gone to Krishna Nath, Dineshwar Prasad, Sachhidanand Sinha, Amrit lal Begar and Virendar Barnwal.

The Gangasharan award for the spread of Hindi and its teaching has been given to Prof R Janardanan Pillay, Dr V Ramsanjeevayya, Dr Vijayraghav Reddy, Dr Ahmad Husain, M Piyongtemjan jamir, Mohandas Surlkar, Ibohal Singh Kadjam, Dr Satyapal Shastri Srivatsa and Mansik Bachhawat.

Dr Avdhesh Kumar Srivastav, Mr Anupam Misra, Jagdeep Saxena and Dr Rakesh Kumar Avasthi have been selected for Atamaram award for scientific and technological writings.

Dr George Grierson Award for foreign Hindi writer and promotion of Hindi in foreign country has gone to Toshi Tanaka and Dr Ronald Stuart Mc Gregor.

Dr Moturi Satyanarain Award for Hindi scholar of Indian origin in foreign country has gone to P Jairaman and Dr Yamuna Kachru.

So far 197 writers have been honoured with these awards since their inception in 1989.

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