Pahichan Samman for Senior Poet Bairagi Kainla and Ganesh Kumar Rai

Pahichan Samman and Youth Honor Announced

The Pahichan Award Fund will confer the “Pahichan Samman” on senior poet Bairagi Kainla this year. This Pahichan Samman, which is presented every five years, will this year be awarded to Kainla, who is a poet, Mundhum scholar and former Vice-Chancellor of the Nepal Academy. The honor carries a cash prize of 5 lakh two thousand two rupees and a copper plaque.

Similarly, the Pahichan Youth Honor will this year be conferred on poet Ganesh Kumar Rai (Gilu Ratos). According to the Pahichan Award Fund, the youth honor carries a cash prize of fifty thousand two hundred two rupees and a copper plaque.

Earlier, writer and political analyst Khagendra Sangraula had been presented with the Pahichan Samman. The Fund has been presenting the Pahichan Puraskar continuously for four years, and the Pahichan Samman every five years. It has announced that, from this year, the Pahichan Youth Honor will be given to young people below 40 years of age.