Sweta Rajpal Of Ht Gets Bs Award

The 1999 Business Standard-Seema Nazareth Award for excellence in print journalism has gone to Sweta Rajpal, reporter-cum-sub editor of The Hindustan Times.

The award, instituted in the memory of Seema Nazareth, a talented young journalist who was on the staff of Business Standard when she died in early 1999, will be given away by the President of India, KR Narayanan, on Monday, February 21, at Rashtrapati Bhawan.

The award includes a cash prize of Rs 25,000 and a citation. Journalists below the age of 25 years were eligible for the award. The selection committee unanimously decided to select Shweta Rajpal for the award because of her outstanding journalistic achievements.

 

Rajpal began her career at the age of 17, while studying journalism in a Delhi University college. She has done a series of reports for her paper, which show remarkable clarity of thought, careful reportorial fieldwork, non-partisan presentation, and compassion and integrity in comprehending issues that touch the lives of ordinary people.