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The Union Home Minister Shri Shivraj Patil will give away The Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha Awards for 2002-03 at a function here tomorrow. The awards which have been instituted by the Department of Official Language in the Union Ministry of Home Affairs are given every year to the Ministries and Departments of the Government of India, Nationalised Banks and Financial Institutions, Public Sector Undertakings and Town Official Language Implementation Committees for promoting the use of Hindi in their official work.
Cash Awards are given to the employees of the Central Government for writing original books in Hindi on the subjects relating to their official work.
For the purpose of awards, Ministries/Departments have been placed in two categories. The Ministries and Departments which have more than 300 employees have been placed in the first category. Under this, Department of Food and Public Distribution has been selected for the first prize, followed by the Ministry of Railways for the second prize and the Office of the Comptroller & Auditor General of India for the third prize. In the second category, Ministries/Departments which have less than 300 employees, the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has secured the first position, followed by the Department of Tourism which has secured the second position and the Ministry of Textiles the third position.
Public Sector Undertakings located in ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ regions separately (for each region) are also given these awards. The ‘A’ region inlcudes the States of Bihar, Jharkhand, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhatisgarh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttranchal and Union Territories of Delhi, and Andaman & Nicobar. The ‘B’ region includes the States of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Punjab and the Union Territory of Chandigarh, and the rest of the States & Union Territories fall in ‘C’ region. Among the PSUs located in ‘A’ region, the Engineers India Ltd., New Delhi has secured the first position, the Gas Authority of India Ltd. New Delhi the second position and the third position has gone to Institution of Renewable Energy Development of India Ltd. (IREDA) New Delhi. In the ‘B’ region, the Cotton Corporation of India, Mumbai has bagged the first prize, followed by the Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India Ltd. Mumbai the second and the Manganese Ore India Ltd. Nagpur the third prize. In the ‘C’ region, the Hindustan Paper Corporation Ltd. Kolkata has bagged the first prize, the Hindustan Latex Ltd, Thiruvananthapuram the second prize and the Kudremukh Iron Ore Co. Ltd. Bangalore the third prize.
The Central Bank of India Ltd. has bagged the first prize among the National Banks and Financial Institutions. The second and third positions have gone to Union Bank of India and the Bank of Maharashtra respectively. Besides, three consolations prizes have been awarded to the Punjab National Bank, the Canara Bank and the Small Scale Industrial Development Bank of India.
For the Town Official Language Implementation Committees, the awards have gone to the Committee of Delhi (PSUs) from ‘A’ region, Mumbai (Banks) from ‘B’ region and Bangalore (Offices) from ‘C’ region.
The Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha Awards are also given for writing original books in Hindi on various subjects pertaining to administrative domain. The first prize carries a sum of Rs.20,000/-, the second Prize Rs. 16,000/-, and the third prize Rs.10,000/-. In this category, the first prize has gone to Shri Mahendra Pandey for his book ‘Taapman Main Vridhi aur Jalwayu Parivartan’. Shri Bimal Srivastava has been adjudged for the second prize for his book ‘Adhunic Hawai Adde Aur Unki Nirman Yojana’ and Shri Shivakant Bajpayee has been adjudged for third prize for his book ‘Prarambhik Bodh Dharma- Sangh and Samaj’.
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