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New Delhi : Lalit Kala Akademi’s 61st annual awards shall be conferred by the President of India Ram Nath Kovind to 15 artists on March 4, 2020, at 11 am at the Rashtrapati Bhavan lawns in New Delhi. Minister for Culture Prahlad Singh Patel and Akademi Chairman Dr Uttam Pacharne will also grace the awards ceremony.
The fifteen awardees chosen by the panel of Jury are : Anoop Kumar Manzukhi Gopi (Thrissoor, Kerala), David Malakar (Kolkata, West Bengal), Devendra Kumar Khare (Vadodara, Gujarat), Dinesh Pandya (Mumbai, Maharashtra), Faruque Ahmed Halder (24 Parganas, Kolkata, West Bengal), Hari Ram Kumbhawat (Jaipur, Rajasthan), Keshari Nandan Prasad (Jaipur, Rajasthan), Mohan Kumar T (Bengaluru, Karnataka), Ratan Krishna Saha (Mumbai, Maharashtra), Sagar Vasant Kamble (Mumbai, Maharashtra), Satwinder Kaur (New Delhi), Sunil Thiruvayur (Ernakulam, Kerala), Tejaswi Narayan Sonawane (Solapur, Maharashtra), Yashpal Singh (Delhi), and Yashwant Singh (Delhi).
The Akademi nominated seven member selection Jury of eminent art practitioners, artists and critics from all over the country to finalise the list of artists to be awarded from among 283 artworks selected by the first tier Jury.
At 5 pm on March 4, Culture Minister Prahlad Singh Patel will inaugurate the 61st National Exhibition of Art and National Kala Mela on the Akademi premises of Ravindra Bhavan, Mandi House. Lt. Governor of Delhi Anil Baijal is slated to preside over the function in the presence of Akademi chairman Dr. Uttam Pacharne, according to a PIB release.