Tarakash.com bags Manthan South Asia Award 2009

Tarakash.com, a Hindi language Information and Knowledge web portal managed from Ahmedabad has been honored with prestigious Manthan Award South Asia under the e-news category. The award was presented at a ceremony held in New Delhi on Saturday, December 19, 2009.



The grand jury’s evaluation of the site noted, “Tarakash.com being in Hindi is a unique website, which disseminates information in a local language using a mass medium like the Internet. Tarakash.com caters that segment of the population in India which is more comfortable in Hindi than English!”

The website was among the two other winners who represented Gujarat in the event and won the prestigious award. The Manthan Award South Asia is organised by the Digital Empowerment Foundation with the support of World Summit Award (WSA) and the Department of IT (DIT) of the Government of India.

The award recognises the best digital and technology innovations to empower communities and is South Asia’s biggest event on ICT for masses, governance and rural development.

This is the world’s first and only infotainment (Information and Entertainment) portal in Hindi. The site is most probably most advance Hindi news site in terms of technology used. As the site is in Hindi, more and more people can read and get benefited from the informative articles. The language used is easy to understand and gasp.



Nirav Bhagat