PV selected for award

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, NOV.13 The former Prime Minister, Mr.P.V.Narasimha Rao, has been selected by the Appajyosyula-Vishnubhotla Foundation of America Inc, a non-profit trust, for its ninth Pratibha Murthi Lifetime Achievement Award for 2002.

Mr. Rao will be given a cash award of Rs. 1 lakh, a citation besides a memento at a function to be organised at the Telugu Lalitha Kala Thoranam here on January 6, 2002, Dr. Appajosyula Satyanarayana, one of the founders of the trust, told a press conference here on Tuesday.

Dr. Satyanarayana and Messrs Juvvadi Gautama Rao, chairman, 2002 programme committee, Y.K. Nageswara Rao, vice-chairman (public relations) and K. Sai, film director, said the four-day annual function of the trust would be organised from January 3. The events to be conducted during the function include literary conventions, a photo exhibition on Mr. Narasimha Rao and a State- level one-act play competition. A seminar on folk arts would be held at Karimnagar on January 4.

They explained that Mr. Narasimha Rao had been chosen for the award in view of his literary achievements and multifaceted personality, besides being a freedom fighter.

Dr. Satyanarayana stated that nine selected plays would be staged during the competitions. These plays had been picked out of the 45 entries received and 25 shortlisted. The best production would get a cash award of Rs. 50,000 and the second and third Rs. 12,000 and Rs. 10,000 respectively. All three prizes would also get mementos. The subject of the plays is "Primary education, importance, society's responsibility".

He said the trust proposed to bring out a 1,000-page souvenir to mark the function. Mr.M.L. Narasimha Rao of the Srikrishna Devaraya Andhra Bhasha Nilayam had been entrusted with the compilation work. Entries and photographs for publication could be sent to the nilayam in Sultan Bazar, Hyderabad.

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