This year's Dandapani-Nanda Kumari Award to be conferred on Mohana Ansari

Kathmandu, Feb 24: This year's 'Dandapani-Nanda Kumari Arjyal Memorial National Award' is to be presented to noted human rights activist Mohana Ansari.     

 An executive committee meeting of the Dandapani Arjyal Memorial Centre presided by its Char Ishwor Chandra Baniya took place on February 23 decided to confer the award on Ansari.     

The award handover ceremony will take place on coming on March 1, according to Centre's general secretary Kapilchandra Khanal. It carries a purse of Rs 50,000.     

The award was institutionalised in commemorations of education activist, historian and philanthropist Dandapani Arjyal and his spouse Nanda Kumari. Dandapani was born in 1963 BS in Gorkha.     

 The award is presented to a personality contributing nationally and its previous recipients are historian Gyanmani Nepal, litterateur Madanmani Dikshit, culture expert Satya Mohan Joshi, historians Tulasi Ram Baidhya and Dinesh Raj Panta, litterateur Dr Modnath Pashrit, educationalist Prof Dr Suresh Raj Sharma and political analyst Prof Dr Surendra KC.(RSS)