Bhubaneswar: Bringing laurels to the State of Odisha, five artists from the State have been honoured with the prestigious Ustad Bismillah Khan award recently.
As per reports, the five artists from Odisha got the award for their outstanding performance in the field of art.
The award was presented by the Sangeet Natak Akademi of the Ministry of Culture, New Delhi.
A total of 82 artists from the country were honoured with this award.
Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar
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.