ANNUAL AWARDS OF KBM ANNOUNCED

Mandal has planned grand celebration on 30th September 2022 and 1 st October 2022. This year Mandal will give 5 seva and karyakarta puraskar apart from its other awards. The recipients of the awards will be presented awards on 1 st October in a special ceremony to be held in Gomant Vidya Niketan at 4.00pm.

LIST OF AWARDS AND ESTEEMED RECIPIENTS FOR 2022

 1. Konkani Bhasha Mandal Service Award

Mr. Martin Menino Fernandes

Mr. Gurudas Samant

Mr. Uday Deshprabhu

Mr. Prabhakar Bhide

Ms. Archana Kamat

2. Serafino Cotta sponsored Felicio Cardozo Memorial Teacher Award 

Ms. Krishnabay (Beena) Nayak

3. Juje Piedade Quadros Memorial Activist Award 

Mr. Gopinath Gawas

Ms. Aparna Garudi

Mr. Revansidh Naik

Mr. Rajdeep Naik

Adv. John Fernandes

4. Ligorio Furtado Trust Award for Journalism 

Mr. Pramod Acharya

5. Dinesh Manerkar Sponsored Chandrakant Keni Memorial Award for Best Columnist/ Column Writing 

Mr. Mukesh Thali

6. Dinesh Manerkar Sponsored Ramnath Manerkar Memorial Award for Translation 

Ms. Sunetra Jog (Book- Sainik)

7. Late Narsimha Damodar Naik Award for Literature 

Fr. Soccoro Rebelo (Book- Khel Kheloya) 

8. Late Rock Barreto Award for Literature

Mr. Aravind Bhatikar (Book- Karmanye) 

9. Konkani Bhasha Mandal sponsored Ramesh Veluskar Memorial Award for Literature

Mr. S. M. Tadkodkar (Book- Konkani Champu Kavya)

10. Manoharrai Sardesai Children’s Literature Award 

Mr. Avinash Kunkolikar (Shenille Bhurgepan)

Jury Panel –

● Literary awards – Vasant Bhagwant Sawant, Dr. Prakash Parienkar and Bro. John

Afonso

● Children’s Literature Award – Prashanti Talpankar, Ramnath Gawde and Nayana

Adarkar

● Service Award – Narayan Mauzo, Sandesh Prabhudesai and Zilu Gaonkar

● Activist award – Dr. Purnanand Chari, Serafin Cota and Prashant Naik

● Teacher's Award – Aruna Patnekar, Dr. Bhushan Bhave and Anant Agni

● Journalism and Columnist Award – Anil Pai, Prakash Kamat and Marcos Gonsalves