BKS provides away Lifetime Achievement Award

In a trial to acknowledge the exceptional work of excellence done by varied renowned figures, Bhartiya Kala Sangam organized an easy however spectacular operate primarily based on Life Time Achievement Award at K.L. Saigal Hall Cultural Academy complicated.

Minister for Medical and Technical Education, Youth Services and Sports, R.S. Chib was the Chief Guest on the occasion.

While speaking on the occasion, Chib appreciated the efforts of Bhartiya Kala Sangam (BKS) for launching the Life Time Achievement Award in recognition of valuable services rendered in varied field of activities. He opined that such operate must be organized at an everyday interval so the dear service given by anyone within the civil society gets adequate reorganisation.

Earlier, T.R. Sharma highlighted the assorted activities to this point organized throughout the last one year saying that BKS has been functioning for the last thirty years throughout that an outsized variety of programmes were held not solely within the state, however additionally within the different states of the country. He additionally gave details of persons who were honoured with Life Time Achievement Award.

The persons who were awarded embody Minister for Medical and Technical Education, Youth Services and Sports, R.S. Chib, IGP, Farooq Khan, further Secretary (J) Cultural Academy, Savita Bakshi, senior journalist, Sohail Kazmi, Redt, Dy. SPs, Manmohan Mahi and Kamal Sharma, Ajay Kumar, Balbir Singh, Sanjeev Gupta, Veena Honda.

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CS DGP among five get PMs Award

Chief Secretary Madhav Lal, Director General of Police, Kuldeep Khoda were among 5 officers of the State, who were conferred with the Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence within the Public Administration for successfully conducting Panchayat elections in J&K.

The 2010-11 awards were presented throughout the Civil Services Day perform held here nowadays.

Besides Chief Secretary and DGP, the awards were additionally conferred on Chief Electoral Officer, B R Sharma, Principal Secretary coming up with and Development, B B Vyas and R K Varma, Special Secretary to Chief Secretary.

The first Panchayati Raj elections within the State were held in 2001 following that they were disrupted attributable to the grave law and order scenario within the state.

The State cupboard had in February 2011 determined to carry elections for ‘halqa’ panchayats and to determine Panchayati Raj establishments.

The law and order scenario within the continuing summers of 2008, 2009 and 2010 was grim. However, even in such making an attempt circumstances the elections to panchayats were held successfully in 2011.

The entire polling arrange was ready strategically. each stakeholders were concerned within the entire method of election by giving data of the varied steps, method and code of conduct in an exceedingly clear manner. voters were additionally created awake to the method through mass awareness programmes, in step with the citation of the award.

It said that computerization of electoral rolls, that were ready in Urdu, Hindi and English, in additional than twenty nine,000 polling stations additionally helped within the method.

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Ist Maharaja Partap Singh Award to Lehar

Tehrik-e-Bakaya Urdu, J&K, has decided to give first Maharaja Partap Singh Award to renowned Urdu writer and senior advocate S S Anand Lehar in recognition of his services in the field of Urdu literature.

Mr Lehar a leading advocate of the State has written 11 books in Urdu and number of TV serials. He has been awarded by number of Government and non Government organizations. Four students of Jammu University did M Phil on his work and one each student of Guru Nanak Dev University, Magadha University and Meerut University are doing PhD on his work.

The other award is being given to Dr Zubair Farooq, an Arab citizen who has written 31 Urdu poetry books. He has also been awarded by many organizations. He is a Urdu singer, composer and short story writer also. 

Meanwhile first Mulak Raj Saraf Award is being conferred to secretary general of Press Club of Jammu, Sohail Qazmi in recognition of his services in the field of journalism.

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SaMaPa Awards 2011

SaMaPa (Sopori Academy of Music And Performing Arts) has announced the names of the recipients of this year’s SaMaPa awards.According to a statement, the prestigious ‘SaMaPa Vitasta Award’ carries cash honour of Rs 50,000 each. The award is being conferred upon Vidushi Zarin Sharma and Begum Parween Sultana.

The prestigious ‘SaMaPa Sher-e-Kashmir Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Award’ which carries cash honour of Rs 25,000 is being conferred upon the veteran Kashmiri folk musician Ghulam Nabi Bulbul. Prof. C.L. Das is being honoured with the ‘SaMaPaAcharya Abhinavgupt Samman’ which carries honour of Rs. 5,000. While Vidushi Zarin Sharma is being honoured for her lifetime contribution in the field of Indian Classical Instrumental Music - Sarod (Mumbai) and Begum Parween Sultana is being honoured for her lifetime contribution in the field of Indian Classical Music – Vocal (Mumbai) with the prestigious ‘SaMaPa Vitasta Award’, Ghulam Nabi Bulbul (Kashmir) is being awarded the ‘SaMaPa Sher-e-Kashmir Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Award’ for his lifetime dedication and contribution in the field of Kashmiri folk music as a singer and Sarangi player.

Prof. C.L. Das (Patna) receives the ‘SaMaPa Acharya Abhinavgupt Samman’ for his lifetime contribution to Indian music as a musicologist and critic. This year SaMaPa has introduced another award for those individuals who go beyond the conventional areas of working promoting the art and culture of the country. The first ‘’SaMaPa Kala Vardhan Samman’ is being conferred upon Nawang Rigzin Jora, Minister for Tourism and Culture, for promoting the art and culture of Jammu and Kashmir State.

The award announcement was made by the internationally acclaimed Santoor maestro and composer Abhay Rustum Sopori in New Delhi declaring that the name was selected by the great music legend Pandit Bhajan Sopori, Chairman SaMaPa, and the award selection committee headed by Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Minister for New and Renewable Energy and Padmashri Shameem Azad, Pt. Vijay Shankar Mishra, VP SaMaPa and senior musicologist and critic, and other committee members.

The award will be presented on the occasion of 7th Annual ‘SaMaPa Sangeet Sammelan 2011’ in New Delhi at Kamani Auditorium on the November 19. The two day festival, acclaimed as the top most music festival of Delhi and one of the most prestigious festivals of the country, SaMaPa Sangeet Sammelan will be held on the 19th and 20th of November 2011 featuring Begum Parween Sultana and Vidushi Shubha Mudgal (vocal), Vidushi Zarin Sharma (Sarod), Ragini Rainu (Sufi), Abhay Rustum Sopori (Santoor), amongst others.