Central Hindi Institute Director N.K. Pandey on 11th April 2017 announced the names of 26 writers from different categories for the prestigious Hindi Sevi Samman Awards.
The awardees will receive Rs 5 lakh each, a citation and a shawl from President Pranab Mukherjee at a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in May 2017.
The Ganesh Shankar Vidhyarthi Award for Hindi journalism will be awarded to Rahul Dev and Baldev Bhai Sharma.
Professor S. Shesharatnam (Andhra Pradesh), M. Govind Rajan (Tamil Nadu), Harmahendra Singh Bedi (Punjab) and H. Subadani Devi (Manipur) have been selected from non-Hindi speaking states for their contribution to the Hindi language.
International Hindi writers selected for the award are Professor Fujii Takeshi (Japan) and Professor Gabriela Nik Ilieva (New York).
Non-Resident Indians (NRI) who get the awards are Pushpita Avasthi (Netherlands) and Padmesh Gupt (London).
The Union Human Resource Development Ministry instituted the Hindi Sevi Samman in 1989.
More than a hundred Hindi writers have received the prestigious awards till now.
Central Hindi Institute: Know More- Kendriya Hindi Sansthan is an autonomous apex organization.
- It was set up by the Ministry of Education and Social Welfare of the Government of India on 19th March, 1960.
- It is being run by the Shikshan Mandal under the overall control of Ministry of Human Resource Development.
- The head office of the organisation is located in the historical city of Agra.
- The regional offices are spread in five different parts of the country- Delhi, Hyderabad, Guwahati, Shillong and Mysore.
- The extension centre of the organization is in Bhubaneswar.
- The organisation is entrusted with the responsibility of teaching Hindi language to the non-Hindi speaking population of our country in order to propagate it as their second language.
