Embassy of India

Berlin

Nominations for Presidential Award of Certificate of Honour for Sanskrit and other Indian languages

The Presidential Award of Certificate of Honour to Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit, Arabic, Persion, Classical Oriya, Classical Kannada, Classical Telugu and Classical Malayalam Scholars will soon be awarded. The scheme was introduced in 1958 and extended in 2016. Under this Scheme, A certificate of Honour along with a onetime monetary grant of Rs. 5,00,000/- each is awarded to scholars of eminence with outstanding contribution in the field of each of these languages.

The scheme also provides for one International Award of Certificate of Honour to a Non-resident Indian or person of non-Indian origin with outstanding contributions in the field of Sanskrit and Two International Awards (one each for person of Indian and Non-Indian Origin) in each of the languages of Classical Oriya, Classical Kannada, Classical Telugu and Classical Malayalam.

The Embassy of India, Berlin is asking for nominations and recommendations latest by 10.04.2018.

Particulars in respect of the scholars recommended for the award may be furnished in the proforma that can be downloaded here.

The recommendations along with contact details would be sent to ttc.berlin@mea.gov.in

For Presidential Awards of Certificate of Honour for Classical Tamil issued by the Central Institute of Classical Tamil, Chennai please click here.