Slow pace of development in Uttrakhand: Resulting hardship of people

K.C. Kulish award for Dawn scribe

New Delhi, March 12
Journalists from Pakistan’s Dawn and the Hindustan Times were jointly conferred the first K.C. Kulish International Award at a function here this evening. Afshan Subohi of The Dawn and Nilesh Mishra of the Hindustan Times received the award.

While Subohi and her team received the honour for the series “Why does corporate Pakistan detest democracy”, Mishra and his team got the award for “The new Muslim series: from Masjid to market a journey”. The award, carrying the prize money of $ 11,000 and instituted by the Rajasthan Patrika group of newspapers in the memory of its founder Karpoor Chandra Kulish, acknowledges the contribution of journalists whose news stories influence change in the lives of people. Former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam presented the awards to the winners.
The function, attended by union ministers Ram Vilas Paswan, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, BJP leaders Ravi Shankar Prasad, Murli Manohar Joshi and Madan Lal Khurana, at least 187 entries were recieved for the award from around 12 countries on the theme human development.
The jury included editor-in-chief, Hindu Group, N. Ram, former IIM director Bakul Dhokalakia, Mr Piyush Pandey, CEO of O&M, and editor of the Rajasthan Patrika Gulalab Kothari.
Ten other works have been selected for the merit award. One of which went to Tony Carnie and his team for “South Africa’s poisonous work places” for The Mercury, South Africa, but he was not present at the function.
Jay Singh Rawat of Uttar Ujala, Dehra Dun, will get the merit award for his work “

Slow pace of development in Uttrakhand: Resulting hardship of people”
“India besieges series: One in every six Indians lives under insurgency” by Yashwant Raj and “War torn: A series on the plight of war martyr families” by Kuldeep Maan and his team (Chandigarh), both from from Hindustan Times, “Save the girl child” by Radha Sharma and her team, the Times of India, Ahmedabad, “HIV/Aids awareness campaign” by Lakhyajit Gohain and his team for Dainik Janambhumi, Guwahati, “Badhal Bundelkhand” by Pratap Samvanshi and his team of Amar Ujala, Kanpur and The Statesman’s “The ugly truth in Nandigram” by Sukumar Mitra are among others who would get the merit awards.

. — UNI