This year’s ‘Tamang Media Award’ is to be presented to journalists Arjun Tamang and Dudumaya Sintan.

Tamang is the Kathmandu Bureau editor of the Annapurna Daily and Sintan is the program producer and presenter of the Shakti FM, Hetauda.

The annual award was instituted by the Tamang Communications Group to commemorate the dissemination of news in the Tamang language from Radio Nepal on Bhadra 1, 2051, according to Group Chair Jagat Dong. The group has the association of around 300 working journalists from the Tamang community.