Hindi poet Leeladhar Jagoori to be honored Gangadhar National Award Eminent Hindi poet Leeladhar Jagoori will be honoured with the prestigious Gangadhar National Award for the year 2015 by the Sambalpur University on the occasion of the foundation day of the University in January 2017. Jagoori will be the 25th recipient of the the award which carries a cash prize of Rs 50,000, a shawl and
a citation.Hindi poet Leeladhar Jagoori to get Gangadhar National Award. The prestigious award was instituted by Sambalpur University in 1989.The award, named after noted Odia poet Gangadhar Meher, is given annually to poets of national repute in Indian languages.
About Leeladhar Jagoori
♦ Leeladhar Jagudi is an Indian teacher, journalist and poet of Hindi literature hailing from Uttarakhand.
♦ He is the recipient of Padmashree award along with many other honours, including Sahitya Akademi Award, Raghuvir Sahay Samman and Shatadal Award.
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