12 eminent personalities bestowed with Yash Bharti Awards 2016

Twelve more eminent personalities on 1 December 2016 were bestowed with the prestigious Yash Bharti Award 2016 in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

With this, a total of 77 personalities have so far received the highest award of the state for the year 2016.

The personalities who received the award are:

• Lieutenant General (Retd.) AK Singh

• Dr Manzur Hasan: Renowned cardiologist of the country

• Atul Tiwari: Film writer

• Dr Deen Muhammad Deen: Hindi litterateur

• Suhas LY: District Magistrate of Azamgarh. He also won gold medal in badminton at Beijing Paralympics.

• Dr Abbas Raza Naiyyar: HOD of Urdu department of Lucknow University

• Murad Ali Khan: Trap shooter

• Naseeruddin Shah: Actor

• Archana Satish: Anchor

• Shikha Dwivedi: Anchor

• Rachna Govil: Sportsperson

• Pramod Kumar Choudhary: Social activist

About Yash Bharti Awards

• Yash Bharti Awards was instituted by Mulayam Singh Yadav Government in 1994.

• The award is conferred by the Uttar Pradesh Government for excellence in literature, fine arts, folk and classical music and sports.

• The award carries cash prize of 11 lakh rupees, a citation and a shawl.

• The award was discontinued by the Bahujan Samaj Party Government from 2007-2013, but later it was revived after a gap of six years.