What is Bharat Bharati Award and why is it given?
Bharat Bharati is the biggest literary award of Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan. This award is given through Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan, Lucknow for outstanding contribution in the field of literature. The award carries a memento, anga vastram and an amount of Rs.5 lakh two thousand in the form of Bharat-Bharati Samman. According to Wikipedia, the Bharat Bharati Award was started in the year 1982.
Brief Description of Bharat Bharati Award:
| Category of award | Literature |
| Establishment year | 1982 |
| Prize money | Five lakh two thousand rupees |
| First winner | Mahadevi Verma |
| Last winner | Suryabala (2020) |
Bharat Bharti Samman 2020:
Amritsar-based litterateur Pandey Shashibhushan Shitanshu was awarded the highest Bharat Bharti Award of Uttar Pradesh Hindi Institute. He was awarded a total prize of Rs eight lakh. Dr. Ram Dushak Singh of Lucknow was decorated with Lohia Sahitya Samman. As a mark of respect, he was given Rs 5 lakh.
A meeting of the Awards Committee was held under the chairmanship of Executive Chairman Dr. Sadanand Prasad Gupta on October 1 to decide on the honors for the year 2020 of Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan. In this, names of scholars were unanimously selected for honors and decisions were also taken on the books published in the year 2020. The highest Bharat Bharti award will be given to Pandey Shashi Bhushan Shitanshu, Amritsar.
List of all Bharat Bharati Winners from 1982 to 2023:
| The year | The person's name |
| 1982 | Mahadevi Verma |
| 1990 | Dharamveer Bharti |
| 1998 | Jagdish Gupta |
| 2001 | Jankivallabh Shastri |
| 2005 | Namwar Singh |
| 2006 | Parmanand Srivastava |
| 2007 | Ramdarsh Mishra |
| 2008 | Kedarnath Singh |
| 2008 | Ashok Bajpai |
| 2009 | Maheep Singh |
| 2010 | Kailash Bajpai |
| 2011 | Govind Mishra |
| 2012 | Gopal Das Neeraj |
| 2013 | Dudhnath Singh |
| 2014 | Kashi Nath Singh |
| 2015 | Dr. Vishwanath Tripathi |
| 2017 | Dr. Anand Prakash Dixit |
| 2018 | Usha Kiran Khan |
| 2019 | Suryabala |
| 2020 | Pandey Shashibhushan 'Sheetanshu' |
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