Cuttack: The Utkal Sahitya Samaj, the oldest literary organisation in Odisha, will confer Justice Dipak Mishra Sahitya Samman to eminent Odia writers from 2025 for their overall contributions to Odia literature every year.
Speaking to the media on Wednesday, former Chief Justice of India Justice Dipak Mishra said his family has decided to set up a corpus fund for encouraging literary persons of the state and it will give a cash award of Rs 1 lakh to an eminent writer of the state every year.
The corpus fund will also meet the annual expenditure of the Utkal Sahitya Samaj award function.
For this purpose, Justice Mishra handed over a cheque of Rs 4.2 lakh to the Utkal Sahitya Samaj president in the presence of other office bearers. The present amount is given to meet the requirements of the Utkal Sahitya Samaj for the next three years, he said.
Mishra said his family is also contemplating to establish either a trust or fund to encourage more and more literary persons by associating with other literary institutions.
