Chandigarh : Panditrao Dharenavar, a Kannadiga has been selected for the Punjabi Likhari special award by government of Punjab. Panditrao who has been working hard to spread the message of Gurwani in south India not only translated various religious texts into Kannada but also carried on the Punjabi teaching classes for PGI doctors. He has also put more than 300 Punjabi public sign boards all over Chandigarh. He has translated 12th century Karanataka’s Vachan Sahit, Das Sahit into Punjabi. Sri Jap Ji saheb, Sri Sukhmani saheb, and Zafaranama are being translated by Panditrao. After hearing the news Panditrao said “Till the last breadth of my life, I will workd for holy Punjabi language.”The meeting which was held in Punjab Bhawan, Chandigarh, selected various writers and artists for thePunjab Ratan, Punjabi Likhari awards. Three prominent Punjabi writers have been selected for Punjabi Sahit Rattan awards. These are Prof Kirpal Singh Kasel, Dr Ajmer Singh Aulakh and Prof Niranjan Singh Tasneem.
Names for awards have been chosen and recommended by the State Advisory Board of Punjab Language Dept in its meeting held here today, presided by Punjab Minister of Higher Education Surjit Singh Rakhra.
The 41 member Board also recommended 15 more names for Shiromani Awards of various categories.
The board selected the names of Amar Bhullar (Canada) , Harjinder Singh Lal and Bhushan Sood for Shiromani Punjabi Pattarkar award
The board also selected 12 more names for Shiromani Punjabi awards:
Shiromni Punjabi Sahitkar
1-Mohan Bhandari
2-Baldev Saraknama
3-Avtar Singh Bling
Shromani Hindi Sahitkar
1-Madhav Kaushik
2-Tarsem Gujral
3-Mohan Sapra
Urdu Sahitkar
1-Mohammad Iqbal
2-Mahesh Patialvi
3-Renu Bahil
Sanskrit
1-Shashi Dhar Sharma
2-Bhshan Lal Sharma
3-Lekh Ram Sharma
Punjabi Alochak/Khoj
1-Surjit Singh Bhatti
2-Balkar Singh Dr
3-Tejwant Gill
Gian Sahitkar
1-Balwant Singh Kotha Guru
2-Pro Achhru Singh
3-Dr Kirpal singh
Punjabi Sahitkar Videshi
1-Kesar Singh Neer
2-Gurbkhash Singh Bhandal
3-Ajit Rahi
Punjabi Sahitkar ( Outside Punjab)
1-Chandan Negi
2- Khalid Hussain
3-Rashpinder Rasham
Bal Sahit Lekhak
1-Santosh Sahni
2-Atma Singh Chitti
3-Amrik Singh Talwandi
Punjabi Sahitak Pattarkari
1-Naranjan Sathi
2-Sushil Dosanjh
3-Varinder Walia
Shiromani Raagi Awards
Bhai Hari Singh
Prof Kartar Singh
Bhai Jaswant Singh
Shiromani Dhadi/KAWISWHAR
Brij Lal Dhaula
Bhai Mahinder Singh Sibia
Des Raj Lachkani
Shiromani Punjabi TV/Radio/Film Award
Boota Singh Shad
Sardarjit Bawa
Satish Kaul
Shiromani Punjabi Natak/Theater Award
Davinder Daman
Gurcharan Channi
Pali Bhupinder
Shiromani Punjabi Gayak/Sangeetkar
Muhammad Sadiq
Gurdas Maan
Surinder Shinda