Lokvishwas Pratishthan award for TOI reporter

Panaji:

Gauree Malkarnekar

, assistant editor with The Times of India, has been declared recipient of the

Lokvishwas Pratishthan’s Narayan Athawaley Smruti Patrakarita Puraskar for 2022

, which recognises

journalistic contribution

in the

social and educational spheres

.

Jayashree Khadilkar-Pande has been selected for the award for the previous year.

The awards will be presented by high court judge Mahesh Sonak on April 28 at 5.30pm at Sidharth Bandodkar Sabhagrah, Shree Shantadurga Krupashram, Dhavali, Ponda. Chairman of Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Bhagirath Shetye will be the guest of honour, chairman of Lokvishwas Pratishthan, Anup Priolkar, said on Saturday. This is the eleventh year the Narayan Athawaley Smruti Patrakarita Puraskar is being presented.

Lokvishwas Pratishthan has been working in the field of education and to rehabilitate children with special needs since 1981. It has institutions for divyang across Goa.