National Film Awards to be announced today

New Delhi, Jun 10 (UNI) The 54th National Film Awards, for 2006 will be announced here today.

The three juries for the awards will submit their recommendations to Minister of Information&Broadcasting P R Dasmunsi at 1000 hrs.

Later, the members of three juries for 54th National Film Awards for Feature and Non Feature film Buddhadeb Dasgupta, K Bikram Singh and Ms Madhu Jain will hold a press conference.

The awards for 2007 will be announced later as the whole process has been disturbed due to the long delay in the announcement of 2005 awards, which was done only last year.

The delay was caused by the court orders for stay obtained by some filmakers who had challenged the criteria for inclusion of films for considertaion of awards.

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