New Delhi: Navratna Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) has been honoured with the prestigious ‘Rajbhasha Kirti’ Award (second prize) under the PSU category (‘C’ region) for the second consecutive year. Anandi Ramalingam, officiating CMD, BEL, received the award on behalf of BEL from Union Ministers of State, Ministry of Home Affairs, Ajay Kumar Mishra and Nisith Pramanik, at the annual awards ceremony held at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, recently.

Home Minister Amit Shah was present during the first half of the function. Nityanand Rai, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs; Manoj Kumar, Executive Director (National Marketing), BEL, and Jagadish Chand, GM (Radar) and BEL-Ghaziabad were also present on the occasion.

This award has been instituted by the Department of Official Language (OL), Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, to honour Central government offices, banks and PSUs for excellence in implementation of the OL Policy and its usage in the three regions, A, B and C. The award carries a memento and a citation.

Shrinivas Rao, Officer, OL-BEL-Corporate Office, has been awarded the ‘Rajbhasha Gaurav Puraskar’ (Second Prize) under Non-Hindi category (2018-19) for his article ‘Indian Advertising World – Size, Evolution, Potential and Future.’ This award is bestowed on authors of well-researched Hindi articles, published in the official magazines of Central government firms.