Dr. Rakhshanda Ruhi Mehdi to get Haryana literary award

Story by  ATV | Posted by  Aasha Khosa | Date 09-07-2024
Dr. Rakhshanda Ruhi Mehdi
Dr. Rakhshanda Ruhi Mehdi

 

 

New Delhi

Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh has approved the Urdu Sahitya Awards for 2021 by the Haryana Sahitya Evam Sanskriti Akademi.

Executive Vice President, Academy, Dr. Kuldeep Chand Agnihotri today informed that the following individuals have been selected for the 2021 awards:

Dr. Sultan Anjum for the “Fakhre-Haryana Award”, Dr. Nashir Naqvi for the “Hali Award”, Shams Tabrizi for the “Syed Muzaffar Hussain Burney Award”, Md. Basheer Malerkotlav for the “Khwaja Ahmad Abbas Award”, Rakshanda Ruhi for the “Urdu Tarjuma Nigari Award”, Prof. Syed Ali Karim for the “Dr Javed Vashisht Award”, and Kunwar Jagmohan for the “Urdu Ghazal-Sarai Award”.

Notably, among the awards given by the Academy for Urdu language, the Fakhre-Haryana Award includes a prize of Rs. 5 lakh, and the Hali Award includes Rs. 3 lakh. Apart from this, the Syed Muzaffar Hussain Burney Award, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas Award, Urdu Tarjuma Nigari Award, Dr. Javed Vashisth Award, and Urdu Ghazal-Sarai Award each include a prize of Rs. 1 lakh.