The Madhya Pradesh Culture Department on Thursday announced 8 major national honors of the country for the years 2024 and 2025. It has selected the personalities and institutions related to film, music, technology, Hindi literature and social service. Give this honor from the state
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This time the prestigious National Kishore Kumar Samman will be given to the famous lyricist and censor board chief Prasoon Joshi for song writing in the year 2024 and the film director Sanjay Leela Bhansali for direction in the year 2025. At the same time, the National Lata Mangeshkar honor will be given to the year 2024 popular music composer couple Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and the year 2025 will be honored by the Emperor Sonu Nigam of Suron.
Eminent lyricist and censor board chief Prasoon Joshi.
These will be the main site of the event
- National Lata Mangeshkar Award: 28 September 2025, Indore
- National Kishore Kumar Award: 13 October 2025, Khandwa
- National Mahatma Gandhi Award: 2 October 2025, Bhopal
- The other five honors will be distributed in Bhopal on Hindi Day on 14 September 2025.
Honor declared for 2024
- Rashtriya Kishore Kumar Samman (song writing): Prasoon Joshi (Delhi)
- National Lata Mangeshkar Samman (Music Direction): Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy (Mumbai)
- National Mahatma Gandhi Award: Ananddham (Bhopal)
- National Information Technology Award: Prashant Po (Jabalpur)
- National Nirmal Verma Award: Rita Kaushal (Australia)
- National Father Kamil Bulke Award: Dr. Indira Ghazieva (Russia)
- National Gunakar Mule Award: Dr. Radheshyam Napit (Shahdol)
- National Hindi Service Award: Dr. KC Ajay Kumar (Thiruvananthapuram)
Rashtriya Lata Mangeshkar Samman (Music Direction): Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy will be given.
Honor declared for 2025
- National Kishore Kumar Samman (Direction): Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Mumbai)
- Rashtriya Lata Mangeshkar Award (Playback Singing): Sonu Nigam (Mumbai)
- Rashtriya Mahatma Gandhi Award: Resurgent harmony Gurukulam (Pune)
- National Information Technology Award: Lokendra Singh Rajput (Bhopal)
- National Nirmal Verma Award: Dr. Vandana Mukesh (England)
- National Father Kamil Bulke Award: Padma Josephin Veerasinghe (Sri Lanka)
- National Gunakar Mule Award: Dr. Sadanand Damodar Sapre (Bhopal)
- National Hindi Service Award: Dr. Vinod Babbar (Delhi)
Objectives and characteristics of honors The purpose of these honors is to empower Indian languages, especially Hindi and Indian culture. The awards given in the name of legendary artists like Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar are considered to be a symbol of creativity and artistic excellence. Father Kamil Bulke and Nirmal Verma are honored to foreign origin or diaspora, who have played an important role in promotion of Hindi abroad. At the same time, the Information Technology honor encourages those who promote technical journey of Hindi in the digital age.