Nirmal Verma Award is given by Madhya Pradesh Culture Department in which field?
- (a)Social service – tribal area
- (b)Dance
- (c)Music
- (d)Hindi language promotion and development by NRI
Correct — D, Hindi language promotion and development by NRI. The Madhya Pradesh Culture Department instituted the Nirmal Verma Award to honour Non-Resident Indians who have worked to promote, spread and develop the Hindi language and literature outside India, named after the celebrated Hindi writer Nirmal Verma.
- (a)Social service – tribal area — MP's tribal-welfare social service work is recognised through separate schemes and honours, not this literary award named after a Hindi writer.
- (b)Dance — Classical/folk dance in MP is honoured through the state's own performing-arts Sammans (e.g. Kalidas Samman), not the Nirmal Verma Award.
- (c)Music — Music has its own dedicated MP Culture Department honours (e.g. Tansen Samman); the Nirmal Verma Award is specifically a Hindi-language honour, not a music award.
The Madhya Pradesh Culture Department runs a roster of named 'Samman'/award honours for excellence in specific fields. The Nirmal Verma Award is distinctive because its field is not literature written within India, but the promotion and development of the Hindi language abroad by Non-Resident Indians — recognising Verma's own stature as a leading modern Hindi writer.
Exams test 'match the MP award to its field' from the department's roster — the trap is assuming every award named after a writer honours literary output inside India, when this one specifically targets NRI contribution to spreading Hindi overseas.
- Nirmal Verma (1929–2005) was a pioneering Hindi writer of the 'Nai Kahani' (New Story) movement and won the Jnanpith Award in 1999.
- The MP Culture Department's Nirmal Verma Award is given for promotion and development of the Hindi language by NRIs abroad.
- It is one of several named literary/cultural Sammans administered by the Madhya Pradesh Culture Department (Sanskriti Vibhag).
- Assuming an award named after a writer must be for literature written within India
- Confusing this award with MP's other Sammans for dance, music or social service
MPPSC often asks 'X award is given in which field' from MP's roster of named cultural honours — memorise the award-to-field mapping, not just the award's name.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Kalidas Samman, instituted by the Madhya Pradesh government, honours excellence in which field?
- (a)Classical arts (music, dance, theatre, plastic arts)
- (b)Hindi journalism
- (c)Sports
- (d)Agriculture
Answer(a) Classical arts — the Kalidas Samman honours classical music, dance, theatre and plastic arts.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which Hindi writer, a pioneer of the 'Nai Kahani' (New Story) movement, won the Jnanpith Award in 1999?
- (a)Nirmal Verma
- (b)Munshi Premchand
- (c)Mahadevi Verma
- (d)Harivansh Rai Bachchan
Answer(a) Nirmal Verma.