The National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare was one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It was one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus). At the 70th National Film Awards, the category was discontinued and combined with Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation, Best Film on National Integration and Best Film on Other Social Issues. The new award is named as Best Feature Film Promoting National, Social and Environmental Values.
The award was instituted in 1968, at 16th National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages Hindi (7 Awards), Bengali (4 Awards), Malayalam (5 awards), Tamil (3 awards), Kannada, English and Gujarati (1 each).
Winners
Indicates a joint award for that year
Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:
List of films, showing the year (award ceremony), language(s), producer(s) and director(s) Year Film(s) Language(s) Producer(s) Director(s) 1968 Anchal Ke Phool Hindi M. R. Seth Karunesh Thakur 1969 No Award 1970 No Award 1971 1972 No Award 1973 No Award 1974 No Award 1975 No Award 1976 1977 No Award 1978 No Award 1979 1980 No Award 1981 No Award 1982 Spandan Hindi Satyanarayanan MisraAbdul MajidDurga Nanda Biplab Roy Chowdhary 1983 No Award 1984 Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho! Hindi Saeed Akhtar Mirza Saeed Akhtar Mirza 1985 No Award 1986 No Award 1987 No Award 1988 No Award 1989 Sandhya Raagam Tamil Balu Mahendra (A Doordarshan production) Balu Mahendra 1990 No Award 1991 Durga Hindi NFDC Basu Chatterjee 1992 Shwet Paatharer Thala Bengali Shankar Gope Prabhat Roy 1993 Akashadoothu Malayalam Anupama Cinema Siby Malayil 1994 Karuththamma Tamil Vetrivel Art Creations Bharathiraja 1995 Mini Malayalam Madhu P. Chandrakumar 1996 Lathi Bengali Robin Agarwal Prabhat Roy 1997 Samaantharangal Malayalam Balachandra Menon Balachandra Menon 1998 Atmiyo Swajan Bengali Dhatri Films Raja Sen 1999 Hari-Bhari Hindi Government of India Shyam Benegal 2000 Kal Kaa Aadmi Hindi Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Amol Palekar 2001 No Award 2002 No Award 2003 Paadam Onnu: Oru Vilapam Malayalam Aryadan Shaukat T. V. Chandran 2004 Hasina Kannada Chiguru Chitra Girish Kasaravalli 2005 Thavamai ThavamirundhuTamilP. ShanmugamCheran 2006 Karutha Pakshikal Malayalam Kaladharan K. V.Vallabhan K. G. Kamal Faltu Bengali Arindam Chaudhuri Anjan Das 2007 Taare Zameen Par Hindi Aamir Khan Aamir Khan 2008 Little Zizou EnglishGujarati Jigri Dost Productions Sooni Taraporevala
References
External links Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India National Film Awards Archives National Film Awards at IMDb