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Shri CHIRANJIT,

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION

He got the national recognition, when the President of India honoured him wthe ith Padma Shri Award in 1972 for his outstanding work in the fieldrof Radio Drama, especially for his counter-propaganda serial radio-feature 'Dhol Ki Pol', which was broadcast during the conflicts with Pakistan in 1965 and again in Deceer, 1971. It was stated in the citation that - " 'Dhol Ki Pol' won him plaudits all over the country and abroad and he was awarded a gold medal in 1966 on behalf of the citizens of Delhi for this feature".

It may be mentioned that that gold medal was presented to Shri Chiranjit by Smt. Indira Gandhi on behalf of the citizens of Delhi, when she was the Minister for Information & Broadcasting. Earlier in 1964, Shri Chiranjit was honoured by the Prime Minister Shri Lai Bahadur Shastri also on behalf of the citizens of Delhi for his patriotic play 'Tasveer Uski', dealing with the Chinese invasion of 1962.

It was again a befitting honour for Shri Chiranjit, when he was deputed to Italy in 1972 to represent India for the first time on the International Drama Jury of the Italia Prize. Through him the representatives of the other broadcasting organizations of the world learnt for the first time that India possessed expertise in Radio Drama not inferior to that of any one of them. After returning from Italy, he submitted a proposal for starting National Awards for different categories of radio-programmes in India on the pattern of Italia Prize. The acceptance of his proposal resulted in the Akashvani Annual Awards of to-day. He was also the member of the committee, which was set up to frame the rules for this new scheme. Thus he can rightly be called the 'Father of Akashvani Awards'.

Later as a Radio Drama Expert, he got a number of opportunities to participate in international conferences, like UNESCO conference on Family Planning Communication held at Delhi in 1974 and General Assembly Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union held at Delhi in 1978. In the UNESCO Conference, he was invited to read a

'''paper on the subject of 'Radio Treatment of Folk-Forms in Family Planning Communication Programmes'. His paper was highly appreciated by the foreign delegates and the press.'''