Haryana Urdu Akademi announces literary awards for 2019 -20

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 31

The Haryana Urdu Akademi has announced literary awards for 2019 and 2020.

The akademi has decided to honour 94-year-old Urdu critic Professor Himmat Singh Sinha ‘Nazim’ of Kurukshetra and prominent poet of Urdu Dr Kumar Panipati of Panipat, with “Fakhr-E-Haryana Award” which carries cash amount of Rs 5 lakh each with citation and memento.

The “Hali Award” for 2019 will be given to Dr Qumeruddin Zakir and for 2020, KK Toor has been chosen. The award carries a citation and memento and a cash amount of Rs 3 lakh each. The “Kanwar Mohinder Singh Bedi Socio-Culture Achievement Award” for 2019 will be given to Dr Nasiruddin Azhar, and for 2020 to Dr Qamar Rais, Sonepat. The “Syed Muzaffar Hussain Burney Award” for 2019 will be given to Zahid-ul-Ehsan and for 2020 to Dr Des Raj Sapra. Also, “Khwaja Ahmad Abbas Award” for 2019 will go to Roop Naraian Chandna, and “Munshi Gumani Lal Award” for 2019 to Aneesul Hasan Siddiqui. The “Surinder Pandit Soz Award” for 2019 will go to Devender Goyal and for 2020 to Dr Nafas Ambalvi.

The “Urdu Tarjuma Nigari Award” for 2019 will go to Surender Bansal, “Dr Javed Vashisht Award” for 2019 to Dr Rehman Akhtar and the “Bal Krishan Muztar Award” for 2019 to Sardari Lal Dhawan ‘Kamal’ and for 2020 to Iqbal Ahmed Ansari. The “Jaswant Singh Tohanvi Award” for 2019 will go to Neeraj Raizada and “Urdu Ghazal Singing Award” for 2019 to SD Sharma and for 2020 Sanjeev Mago has been chosen.