Sahyadri Navratna Awards

Sahyadri Navratna Awards announced

Ashish Mitra
Posted online: Friday, April 28, 2006 at 0000 hours IST

The Sahaydri Channel has, for the last five years, been giving away awards of excellence to eminent Maharashtrians for their good work in a particular field of interest
This year the ’Godrej No.1 5th Sahayadri Awards 2006 will be presented to eleven well-known personalities in their field of interest namely music, films, drama, sports, social work, journalism, women, industrialist and literature. Nine jury members comprising the likes of Chandrashekhar Dharmadhikari, Kiran Shantaram, Prabhakar Panshikar, Dr Prabha Atre, Madhukar Bhave, Ms Rupa Shah, V.V. Karmarkar, Vijaya Rajadhyaksha and Chandrakant Salunkhe put their heads together and came out with a list of awardees.The names of the nine awardees were announced recently.

Mukesh Sharma, Director, Doordarshan Kendra, Mumbai said, “Going by the reach of the Sahyadri Channel, it was our endeavour to salute and honour eminent personalities from various fields. To our good luck Godrej agreed to lend a helping hand to us by sponsoring the event. We are soon going to bring out a coffee table book at will comprise the names of all our awardees for all these five years. This will be not just a souvenir, but will be something to treasure.” Said Chandrakant Salunkhe, “Though it wasn’t an easy task to select awardees, we never at any moment had any friction in choosing any of the personalities. Their names came out according to merit and it was good that all the others approved of the same. Kiran Shantaram was also of the same view and said, “this time we unanimously chose all the awardees according to their merit’s worth.”

This year the Godrej No.1 Sahyadri Awards would be presented to Ulhas Kashalkar for music, Amol Palekar for films, Mohan Wagh for drama, Sachin Tendulkar for sports, Ms Madakini and Prakash Amte for social work, Pratapsingh Jadhav for journalism. Ms Nasima Hurzul in the woman’s category. Ajit Gulabchand for industrialist and Mangesh Padgaonkar for literature.

It may be recalled that the Godrej No. Sahyadri Awards for 2005 were awarded to Snehal Bhatkar in the music category, Rajdutt for films, Vijay Tendulkar for drama, Dr Abhay Rani Bang for social work, Dinu Randive for journalism, Mrinal Gore as woman of substance, Dilip-Subhash Dandekar for the industrialist category, Dr Vishwanath Karad in education and Namdeo Dhasal for literature.
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