Union Minister Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, the Hon’ble Minister of Tourism and Culture, Government of India will confer the Ustad Bismilliah Khan Yuva Puraskar for the years 2022 and 2023 to 82 young artists in a special ceremony, tomorrow, 22 November, 2024 at 11 a.m. at Dr Ambedkar International Centre, Janpath, New Delhi. The award ceremony will be presided over by Dr Sandhya Purecha, Chairman, Sangeet Natak Akademi, Smt. Uma Nanduri, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
The award ceremony will be followed by the festival of performing arts featuring the recipient of Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar at three different venues Meghdoot Theatre Complex, Rabindra Bhawan, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi; Abhimanch Theatre, National School of Drama, Bhawalpur House, New Delhi and Vivekanand Auditorium, Kathak Kendra, Chanakyapuri from 22 to 26 November, 2024.
Sangeet Natak Akademi instituted the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar (UBKUP) in the name of Bharat Ratna Ustad Bismillah Khan for young performing art practitioners upto the age of 40 years in 2006. The Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar is given annually to outstanding young artists in the fields of music, dance, drama, folk & tribal arts and puppetry in a special ceremony held in Delhi and also outside Delhi. The Yuva Puraskar carries a purse money of Rs 25,000/- (Rupees twenty-five thousand only), a plaque and an angavastram.
The reason behind instituting the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar was to encourage and motivate the young artists in the field of music, dance, drama, folk and tribal art forms and other allied performing art forms of the country.
The list of recipients of Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for the years 2022 and 2023 is as follows:
Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for the year 2022
Field of Activity: Music -10
- Samit Mallick Hindustani Vocal
- Samarth Janve Hindustani Vocal
- Sangeet Mishra Hindustani Instrumental– Sarangi
- Partho Roy Choudhury Hindustani Instrumental – Santoor
- K. Gayatri Carnatic Vocal
- I. Sweta Prasad Carnatic Vocal
- B. Anantha Krishnan Carnatic Instrumental –Violin
- Sahana S.V Carnatic Instrumental - Veena
- Manoj Rai Creative & Experimental Music
- Nandini Rao Gujar Other Major Traditions of Music (Sugam Sangeet)
Field of Activity: Dance -10
- Mandakranta Roy Bharatanatyam
- Kadam Parikh Kathak
- Urmika Maibam Manipuri
- T. Reddi Lakshmi Kuchipudi
- Arupa Gayatri Panda Odissi
- Dimpee Baishya Sattriya
- Akshara M Das Mohiniattam
- Pradyumna Kumar Mohanta Chhau
- Mingma D. Lepcha Creative & Experimental Dance
- Aparna Nangiar Other Major Traditions of Dance and Dance Theatre
(Nangiarkoothu)
Field of Activity –Theatre – 08
- Beluru Raghunandan Playwriting
- Ifra Mushtaq Kak Direction
- Harishankar Ravi Direction
- Harwinder Singh Acting
- Kumar Ravikant Acting
- Siddhi Upadhye Acting
- Mukunda Nath Mime
- Sangeet Shrivastava Allied Theatre Arts – Lighting
Field of Activity: Other Traditional/Folk/Tribal Dance/Music/Theatre and Puppetry - 11
- Lata Tiwari & Sanjay Datt Panday, (Joint Award) Folk Music & Dance, Uttrakhand
- Chow Saratham Namchoom Folk Music, Arunachal Pradesh
- Sampriya Pooja Folk Music & Dance, Chhattisgarh
- Suryawanshi Pramila Kautikrao Folk Dance Lavani, Maharashtra
- Kumar Uday Singh Folk Dance, Bihar
- Nasarullah EPI Folk Dance, Lakshadweep
- Binita Devi Puppetry, Assam
- Mahesh Aba Satarkar Folk Dance, Goa
- Vasava Mukeshbhai M. Folk Dance, Gujarat
- Gulzar Ahmad Bhat Folk Dance, Jammu & Kashmir
- Moirangthem Kendra Singh Nata Sankirtan, Manipur
Overall Contribution/Scholarship in Performing Arts – 1
- Anuthama Murali over all contribution in performing arts
Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for the year 2023
Field of Activity: Music -10
- Anuja Zokarkar Hindustani Vocal
- Monika Soni Hindustani Vocal
- Rishi Shankar Upadhyay Hindustani Instrumental– Pakhawaj
- Sarang Rajan Kulkarni Hindustani Instrumental – Sarod
- S. R. Vinay Sharva Carnatic Vocal
- Ramakrishnan Murthy Carnatic Vocal
- Akshay Anantapadmanabhan Carnatic Instrumental –Mridangam
- Saikhom Pinky Devi Creative & Experimental Music
- Satyavathi Mudavath Creative & Experimental Music
- Nagesh Shankarrao Adgaonkar Other Major Traditions of Music (Abhang)
Field of Activity: Dance -10
- Apoorva Jayaraman Bharatanatyam
- Meghranjani Medhi Kathak
- Kalamandalam Vipin Sankar Kathakali
- Pukhrambam Reepa Devi Manipuri
- Muramalla Surendra Nadh Kuchipudi
- Debasis Pattnaik Odissi
- Mukunda Saikia Barbayan Sattriya
- Vidya Pradeep Mohiniattam
- Sunita Mahato Chhau
- Venkateshwaran Kuppuswamy Music for Dance
Field of Activity –Theatre – 08
- Priyadarshini Mishra Playwriting
- Bendang Walling Direction
- Suvojit Bandyopadhyay Direction
- Rutuja Rajan Bagwe Acting
- Vipan Kumar Acting
- Shruti Singh Acting
- Mallikarjuna Rao Bachala Allied Theatre Arts – Make-up
- Puneet Dimari & Amit Khanduri (Ramleela) Other Major Traditions Of Theatre
(Joint Award) Uttrakhand
Field of Activity: Other Traditional/Folk/Tribal Dance/Music/Theatre and Puppetry - 11
- Angadi Bhaskar Folk Music – Dappalu, Telangana
- Alok Bishoyi Folk Dance & Music, Odisha
- M. Prakash Folk Dance, Puducherry
- Padma Dolker Folk Music & Dance, Ladakh
- Sukhram Pahan Folk Music, Jharkhand
- Yusuf Khan Mewati Jogi Folk Music, Rajasthan
- Kalamandalam Ravisankar T S Folk Instrument (Chenda), Kerala
- Dixit Kushal Manvantray Folk Dance, Gujarat
- Priyanka Shakti Thakur Traditional Music, Maharashtra
- Anureet Pal Kaur Folk Music, Punjab
- Charu Sharma Folk Music, Himachal Pradesh
Overall Contribution/Scholarship in Performing Arts – 1
- Laxminarayan Jena over all contribution in performing arts.
