Sushil Kumar from the United News of India, Sharvan Kumar of Univarta, Dharmendra Kumar, UNI photo journalist and M R Mishra of PTI are among the 27 journalists chosen for this year's prestigious Matri Shree Media Awards.
Announcing the awards here today, convenor, Matrishree Media Awards Committee Dinesh Sharma said these awards are being presented to the journalists in recognition of their services to the motherland every year for the last 37 years.
The awards would be given away to the chosen journalists by BJP president Rajnath Singh and Editor-in Chief of Punjab Kesari Ashwini Kumar on April 28.
The other scribes, who have been selected for 38th Matri Shree Media Awards are : Kavindra Narayan Srivastva of Bhasha, Rajeev Saxena of Rashtriya Sahara, Uttam Kumar of Pioneer, Manoj Pant of Punjab Kesari, Poonam Pandey of Nav Bharat Times, Amit Jha of Dainik Hindsutan, Sunil Kumar Tripathi of Sandya Times, Santosh Pathak of DLA, Jatin Anand of Hindustan Times, Kavilesh Mishra of Dainik Jagran, Harish Chandra Lakhera of Amara Ujala, Parul Sharma of Jansatta, Surjeet Thakur of Dainik Bhaskar, Sanjay Mishra of Rajasthan Patrika, Pramod Kumar of Shah Times, Dharmendra Kumar of Mahamedha, Vijay Sharma of Veer Arjun, Vicy Jain of MH-1 News, Chetna from CNN, Anga Singh of Total TV, Bhopal Singh of NN1, Manjeet Kaur from Sadhna TV and Sonu Kumar of 4 Real News. Hindi feature film 'Barfi' has also been selected for the prestigious award.