Eminent Hindi litterateur Arvind Kumar was presented the Hindi Academy Shalaka Samman by well known poet and former bureaucrat Dr. Sita Kant Mahapatra at Delhi Secretariat on 24 June 2011. The award carried a citation, shawl, memento and a cash prize of Rs 2 lakh.
Arvind Kumar started his career as a child labour in a publishing house in Delhi in 1945 but with his dedication and work he become editor of magzines like Madhuri, Sarvottam. He has also created several dictionaries and thesaurus in Hindi-English and Hindi-Sanskrit.
Parmanand Srivastava, Ramanika Gupta, Devendra Raj Ankur. B.M. Baxi, Alok Puranik and Giridhar Rathi were also presented with awards which carry an amount of Rs 50 thousand and a citation each.
Shalaka Samman is the highest honour of Delhi state in the field of Hindi literature.
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