The National Film Award for Best Non-Feature 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 Non-Feature Films and awarded with 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus).
The award was instituted in 1982, at 30th National Film Awards and awarded annually for short films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. It was discontinued from the 70th National Film Awards.
Awards
Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus Award) and cash prize. Cash prize amount varied over the period. Following table illustrates the cash prize amount over the years:
Year (Period) Cash prize 1982 –2005 Producer and Director: Rajat Kamal and Each 2006–2021 Producer and Director: Rajat Kamal and Each
Winners Following are the award winners over the years: Indicates a joint award for that year
List of films, showing the year, language(s), producer(s) and director(s) Year Film(s) Language(s) Producer(s) Director(s) 1982 Kal Aur Aaj Hindi Vimala Swaminathan Vimala Swaminathan 1983 No Award 1984 Sweekar Hindi Bal Mehta Vishram Revankar Geeli Meetti Hindi Women and Social Welfare Ministry Sanjay Kak 1985 Bai Marathi StreevaniIshvani Sumitra Bhave 1986 No Award 1987 No Award 1988 Lacchmi Hindi K. K. Garg for Films Division Om Prakash Sharma Nirnay Hindi B. R. Shedge for Films Division R. R. Swamy 1989 Boy or Girl — How? Hindi B. R. Shendge R. R. Swamy 1990 No Award 1991 A Matter of Motherhood English Rajiv Mehrotra Rajiv Mehrotra 1992 Suno Bahu Rani Hindi Om Prakash Sharma for Films Division K. K. Kapil 1993 Taveez Hindi Rajeev Mohan for Films Division Purushottam Berde for Films Division 1994 Clint MalayalamEnglish Shiva Kumar Shiva Kumar 1995 Soch Samajh Ke Hindi Shanta GokhleArun Khopkar Arun Khopkar 1996 Bhit Bengali Films DivisionK. R. G. Films Glbahar Singh 1997 The Saviour Hindi Shaila Paralkar Shaila Paralkar Banglar Baul Bengali Yash Chaudhary K. G. Das 1998 N. M. No. 367 – Sentence of Silence English Y. N. Engineer for Films Division Joshy Joseph for Films Division 1999 No Award 2000 Akkareninnu Malayalam T. Sunil KumarSusmithamPallimalkunnu T. Sunil KumarSusmithamPallimalkunnu Mahananda Bengali Films Division Madhuchhanda Sengupta 2001 Sayante Thinte Padavukal Malayalam Ratheesh Ramayya Satheesh Venganoor 2002 Dhatri Panna Hindi Films DivisionMinistry of Health and Family Welfare Gul Bahar Singh 2003 No Award 2004 Saanjh Hindi Tripurari Sharan for Film and Television Institute of India Jasmine Kaur 2005 No Award 2006 No Award 2007 Making The Face English Public Service Broadcasting Trust Suvendu Chatterjee 2008 Appuvin Nayagan – Spotty (My Hero) Tamil A.V. Anoop Madhavan 2009 No Award 2010 Love in India BengaliEnglish Overdose Kaushik Mukherjee 2011 Red Building where the Sun Sets English Syed Sultan AhmedTabassum Modi Revathi 2012 After Glow EnglishGujarati FTII Kaushal Oza 2013 Heyro Party Bengali Baishakhi BanerjeeDeepak Gawade Deepak Gawade 2014 Towards the Silver Lining English Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute Bhabani Tamuli 2015 Best Friends Forever English Syed Sultan Ahmed (Edumedia India) Sandeep Modi 2016 Little Magician English Syed Sultan Ahmed Neha Sharma 2017 Happy Birthday FTII Medhpranav Babasaheb Powar 2018 Chalo Jeete Hain Sundial Ventures Pvt. Ltd. Mangesh Hadavale 2019 Oru Paathiraa Swapnam Pole Malayalam Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute Sharan Venugopal 2020 Kumkumarchan (Worship of the Goddess) Marathi Studio Filmy Monks Abhijeet Arvind Dalvi 2021 Chand Saanse Hindi Chandrakant Kulkarni Pratima Joshi
References
External links Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India National Film Awards Archives