Thursday, May 2, 2013

Sukhchain Bhandari given extension



By Haryananewswire
CHANDIGARH, MAY 2
The Haryana Government has given extension of one year in the services of Director, Haryana Punjabi Sahitya Akademi, Mr. Sukhchain Singh Bhandari.
            Mr. Bhandari  has been appointed as Akademi Director on April 28, 2011 for a period of two year. During his two years tenure of service as Director, Mr. Bhandari has worked extensively for promoting Punjabi language, literature and culture. As many as 70 programmes including Punjabi Kavi Darbaar, Kahani Darbaar, story and poem workshop, street plays, seminars and other programmes had been organized in various cities, towns and villages for promoting Punjabi language in the state.
          Punjabi Sahitya Akademi has not only increased the cash incentives of annual literature awards but it had also instituted several new awards for honoring the litterateurs of Punjabi language.

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