The National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Environment/Conservation/Preservation Film was one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organization set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It was one of several awards presented for non-feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).
The award was instituted in 1989, at 37th National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. At the 70th National Film Awards, the award is discontinued and clubbed with National Film Award for Best Promotional Film, National Film Award for Best Scientific Film, National Film Award for Best Educational/Motivational/Instructional Film, National Film Award for Best Exploration/Adventure Film, National Film Award for Best Anthropological/Ethnographic Film, National Film Award for Best Investigative Film and National Film Award for Best Film on Social Issues, National Film Award for Best Agriculture Film and two new categories were created; Best Documentary and Best Non Feature Film Promoting Social and Environmental Values.
Winners
Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:
Awards legends
List of films, showing the year, language(s), producer(s) and director(s) Year Film(s) Language(s) Producer(s) Director(s) 1989 The Deer on the Lake English Aribam Syam Sharma Aribam Syam Sharma 1990 Pratikriya Desiya Rahat Yusufi Rahat Yusufi 1991 Mudialy Ekti Bikalpa Pantha(The Mudialy Alternative) English Dilip Kumar Roy Samiran Dutta 1992 Ladhakh: The Forbidden Wilderness English Bedi Films Naresh Bedi 1993 Orchids of Manipur Manipuri Sh. Tomchou Singh Aribam Syam Sharma 1994 Visuddha Vanangal Malayalam Kerala State Film Development Corporation K. R. Mohanan 1995 Amrit Beeja EnglishKannada Meera Dewan Meera Dewan 1996 Rabia Chalikkunnu Malayalam Abraham Benhur Ali Akbar 1997 Nature's Sentinels: Bishnoi Hindi Y. N. Engineer for Films Division Late P. C. SharmaShankar Patnaik 1998 Willing To Sacrifice English Dayakar Rao B. V. Rao 1999 And The Bamboo Blooms English Films Division Joshy Joseph 2000 The Nest Bengali Sparsh Productions Supriyo Sen 2001 The Holy Ganga Hindi Y. N. Engineer for Films Division Viplove Bhatia 2002 Urumattram Tamil B.Sivakumar G. Meenakshi Sundaram B.Sivakumar 2003 The 18 Elephant: Three Monologues Malayalam Savithri Divakaran P. Balan 2004 Timeless Traveller-The Horseshoe Crab English Riverbank Studios Gautam Pandey 2005 Under This Sun Bengali Nilanjan Bhattacharya Nilanjan Bhattacharya 2006 Kalpavriksha: Legacy Of Forests English Mike Pandey Nina Subramani 2007 Bhanga Ghara Bengali FTII Nilanjan Datta 2008 No Award 2009 In For Motion English Amlan Dutta Anirban Dutta 2010 Iron is Hot English Meghnath Bhattacharjee Biju ToppoMeghnath Bhattacharjee 2011 Tiger Dynasty English S. Nallamuthu S. Nallamuthu 2012 Timbaktu English Public Service Broadcasting Trust Rintu ThomasSushmit Ghosh 2013 Foresting Life HindiAssamese Humanity Watchdog Foundation Aarti Shrivastava 2014 I Cannot Give You My Forest English Top Quark Films Pvt. Ltd. Nandan SaxenaKavita Bahl 2015 The Man Who Dwarfed The Mountains English Rajiv MehrotraPSBT Ruchi ShrivastavaSumit Sunderlal Khanna God On The Edge HindiEnglish Elements Picture Studio Ashok Patel 2016 The Tiger Who Crossed The Line English Krishnendu Bose Krishnendu Bose 2017 The Pangti Story Naga Rajiv Mehrotra Sesino Yhoshü 2018 The World's Most Famous Tiger Natural History Unit India S. Nallamuthu 2019 The Stork Saviours Hindi Rajiv Mehrotra PSBT Ajay Bedi Vijay Bedi 2020 Manah Aru Manuh (Manas and People) Assamese Directorate, Manas National Park and Aaranyak Dip Bhuyan 2021 Munnam Valavu Malayalam Sree Gokulam Movies R S Pradeep
References
External links Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India National Film Awards Archives