Gandaki, Sept 15: The Pokhara
Photographers' Association has awarded the fourth 'Ashok Lifetime Achievement
Photography Award' to Mukunda Shakya, a photographer from Baglung.
Chief of Gandaki province, Dilliraj
Bhatt, handed over the award carrying a purse of Rs. 25,555 to Shakya at a
function held in Pokhara on Saturday.
Advisor to Baglung Photographers'
Association, Shakya has been active in the photography field for the past six
decades.
The award has been established by Durga
Paudel, the adviser of the Association, in memory of photojournalist Ashok
Bataju of Pokhara. (RSS)