This year’s Yug Kavi Siddhicharan Puraskar will be awarded to veteran poet and culture expert Tulsi Diwas. A meeting called by the newly elected chairman of Yug Kavi Siddhicharan Shrestha Foundation, Bairagi Kainla, announced the decision to award Tulsi Diwas for his contribution to Nepali poetry and folk literature.

Likewise, the Foundation will also award Kantipur journalist Ganesh Rai with the year’s Yug Kavi Siddhicharan Yuwa Patrakarita Puraskar. Foundation member Prof Doctor Gargi Sharma shared that Yug Kavi Siddhicharan Award boasts a Tamra Patra and a cash purse of Rs 100,000. Similarly, Yug Kavi Siddhicharan Yuva Patrakarita Purashkar comes with a cash purse of Rs 25,000.

Yug Kavi’s son and preserver of the foundation, Rabi Charan Shrestha, shared that the prizes will be handed amid a function marking Yug Kavi’s 107th birth anniversary.