Presidential Award for Certificate of Honour and Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman

The President awarded the Certificate of Honour to the following scholars of Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit, Arabic and Persian:
Sanskrit.
•    Shri R.Venkatraman
•    Shri Viswanatha Gopala Krishna
•    Shri Jiya Lal Kamboj
•    Dr.  Bhavendra Jha
•    Prof.  Priyatam Chandra Shastri
•    Prof. Gurupad K.Hegde
•    Prof.  S.T. Nagaraja
•    Shri Sanatan Mishra
•    Shri Sristi Lakshmi Prasannanjaneya Sarma
•    Prof. (Mrs.) Laxmi Sharma
•    Prof.  Biswanath  Bhattacharya
•    Prof.  Ramnarayan Das
•    Dr.  Ramshanker Awasthi
•    Shri Hridaya Ranjan Sharma
•    Prof. (Dr.) Janaki Prasad Dwivedi
 Sanskrit (International)
•    Mr. Fernando Tola
Arabic
•    Shri Abdul Musabbir Bhuiya
•    Shri Sayyad Asad Raza Hussaini
•    Shri Badr-E-Jamal Islahi
Persian
•    Hkm. Syed Ghulam Mehdi Raz
•    Chowdhry Wahhaj Ahmad Ashraf
•    Moulvi  H. Rehman Qabli
Pali
•    Smt. Bela Bhattacharya
Prakrit
•    Dr. Damodar Shastri
•    Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman
In addition, the Hon’ble President is also pleased to award the Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman to the following young scholars of Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit, Arabic and Persian:
Sanskrit
•    Dr. Mahanand Jha
•    Dr. Sundar Narayan  Jha
•    Dr. G.S.V Dattatreya  Murthy
•    Dr. Vishwanath Dhital
•    Dr.  Shankar Rajaraman
Arabic
•    Dr. Md. Qutbuddin
Persian
•    Dr. Haseen Uz Zaman
Pali
•    Dr. Ujjwal Kumar
Prakrit
•    Dr. Yogesh Kumar Jain
The distinction is conferred once a year on the Independence Day in recognition of substantial contribution in the field of Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit, Arabic and Persian.