Presidential Awards at Rashtrapati Bhavan 2016 2017

Presidential Awards at Rashtrapati Bhavan

Presidential Awards 2016 Kural Pitam Award 2017 Presidential Awards for Classical Tamil President Pranab Mukherjee has conferred the Presidential Awards at Rashtrapati Bhavan 2016 for Classical Tamil at a function at Rashtrapati Bhavan here.
The award includes a certificate of honour, a memento and a one-time cash prize of Rs. 5 lakh. Presidential Awards for Classical Tamil are instituted by the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development, to give due recognition and honour to distinguished scholars who have made outstanding contribution to the development of Classical Tamil language and literature.

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Presidential Awards for Classical Tamil, Proffessor Francois Gros, Kural Pitam Award 2012,
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The Tolkappiyar Award for outstanding contribution in the field of Tamil studies
was awarded to C. Govindarajanar.

The award carries a certificate of honour, a memento and a one-time cash prize of Rs.5 lakh.Prof. Francois Gros, a French national, received the Kural Pitam Award for the year 2008-09.

Prof. Gros has translated many Tamil classics into French and was the vice-president of the
International Association of Tamil Research.