Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu.
The Narad Samman award function is likely to be attended by Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu.
RSS joint general secretary Manmohan Vaidya will confer the ‘Narad Samman’ journalism awards on June 29, which is likely to be attended by Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu.
According to the RSS’s communication wing Indraprastha Vishwa Samvad Kendra (IVSK), the awards are constituted in memory of the “first-ever and the most eminent journalist-scholar of the universe, namely Narad Maharishi”.
The IVSK has already invited applications from journalists based in Delhi-NCR for work done in 2018. There are a total nine award categories this year, the Sangh’s communication wing said in a statement.
The categories for which the awards will be given are: reporting on women issues, reporting on rural issues, for a young reporter below 30 years with up to three years experience, for a photo journalist, for digital media and social media, among others.
The last date for submitting applications for the awards is June 15. It will be evaluated by a jury of eminent journalists, including Prabhu Chawla, Ashok Tandon, K.G. Suresh, Umesh Upadhyay, Sachchidanand Joshi, Hitesh Shanker and Parijat Kaul.
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