President Kovind to confer Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships today

President Ram Nath Kovind will confer the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships and Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards for 2016 to an eminent group of musicians, dancers, and theatre artists today. The function will be held at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. 

This year, four eminent artists and scholars in performing arts will be conferred Fellowships of the Akademi and 43 artists will receive the Akademis Awards. The four Fellowships (Akademi Ratnas) this year will be conferred on Arvind Parikh, R Vedavalli, Ram



Gopal Bajaj and Sunil Kothari. The Fellows receive a cash award of three lakh rupees, an angavastram, and a tamrapatra.

The artists to be honoured with the Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards for 2016 receive one lakh rupees, an angavastram and a tamrapatra. The Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships (Akademi Ratna) and Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards (Akademi Puraskar) are national honours bestowed by the government on performing artists as well as teachers and scholars in the field of performing arts.