National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Environment/Conservation/Preservation Film explained

National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Environment/Conservation/Preservation Film
Subheader:	National award for contributions to short film
Sponsor:	Directorate of Film Festivals
Firstawarded:	1989
Lastawarded:	2017
Holder Label:	Most recent winner
Holder:	The Pangti Story
Award1 Type:	Total awarded
Award1 Winner:	29
Award2 Type:	First winner
Award2 Winner:	The Deer on the Lake

The National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Environment/Conservation/Preservation Film is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organization set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several awards presented for non-feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).

The award was instituted in 1989, at 37th National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.

Winners

Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:

List of films, showing the year, language(s), producer(s), director(s) and citation
Year	Film(s)	Language(s)	Producer(s)	Director(s)	Citation
1989	The Deer on the Lake	English	Aribam Syam Sharma	Aribam Syam Sharma		^[1]
1990	Pratikriya	Desiya	Rahat Yusufi	Rahat Yusufi		^[2]
1991	Mudialy Ekti Bikalpa Pantha (The Mudialy Alternative)	English	Dilip Kumar Roy	Samiran Dutta		^[3]
1992	Ladhakh: The Forbidden Wilderness	English	Bedi Films	Naresh Bedi		^[4]
1993	Orchids of Manipur	Manipuri	Sh. Tomchou Singh	Aribam Syam Sharma		^[5]
1994	Visuddha Vanangal	Malayalam	Kerala State Film Development Corporation	K. R. Mohanan		^[6]
1995	Amrit Beeja	English Kannada	Meera Dewan	Meera Dewan		^[7]
1996	Rabia Chalikkunnu	Malayalam	Abraham Benhur	Ali Akbar		^[8]
1997	Nature's Sentinels: Bishnoi	Hindi	Y. N. Engineer for Films Division	Late P. C. Sharma Shankar Patnaik		^[9]
1998	Willing To Sacrifice	English	Dayakar Rao	B. V. Rao		^[10]
1999	And The Bamboo Blooms	English	Films Division	Joshy Joseph		^[11]
2000	The Nest	Bengali	Sparsh Productions	Supriyo Sen		^[12]
2001	The Holy Ganga	Hindi	Y. N. Engineer for Films Division	Viplove Bhatia		^[13]
2002	Urumattram	Tamil	B.Sivakumar G. Meenakshi Sundaram	B.Sivakumar		^[14]
2003	The 18 Elephant: Three Monologues	Malayalam	Savithri Divakaran	P. Balan		^[15]
2004	Timeless Traveller-The Horseshoe Crab	English	Riverbank Studios	Gautam Pandey		^[16]
2005	Under This Sun	Bengali	Nilanjan Bhattacharya	Nilanjan Bhattacharya		^[17]
2006	Kalpavriksha: Legacy Of Forests	English	Mike Pandey	Nina Subramani		^[18]
2007	Bhanga Ghara	Bengali	FTII	Nilanjan Datta		^[19]
2008	No Award					^[20]
2009	In For Motion	English	Amlan Dutta	Anirban Dutta		^[21]
2010	Iron is Hot	English	Meghnath Bhattacharjee	Biju Toppo Meghnath Bhattacharjee		^[22]
2011	Tiger Dynasty	English	S. Nallamuthu	S. Nallamuthu		^[23]
2012	Timbaktu	English	Public Service Broadcasting Trust	Rintu Thomas Sushmit Ghosh		^[24]
2013	Foresting Life	Hindi Assamese	Humanity Watchdog Foundation	Aarti Shrivastava		^[25]
2014	I Cannot Give You My Forest	English	Top Quark Films Pvt. Ltd.	Nandan Saxena Kavita Bahl		^[26]
2015	The Man Who Dwarfed The Mountains	English	Rajiv Mehrotra PSBT	Ruchi Shrivastava Sumit Sunderlal Khanna		^[27]
	God On The Edge	Hindi English	Elements Picture Studio	Ashok Patel
2016	The Tiger Who Crossed The Line	English	Krishnendu Bose	Krishnendu Bose		^[28]
2017	The Pangti Story		Rajiv Mehrotra	Sesino Yhoshü
2018	The World's Most Famous Tiger		Natural History Unit India	S. Nallamuthu

External links

• Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India
• National Film Awards Archives

Notes and References

1. Web site: 37th National Film Awards. PDF. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
2. Web site: 38th National Film Awards. PDF. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
3. Web site: 39th National Film Awards. PDF. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
4. Web site: 40th National Film Awards. PDF. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
5. Web site: 41st National Film Awards. PDF. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
6. Web site: 42nd National Film Awards. PDF. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
7. Web site: 43rd National Film Awards. PDF. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
8. Web site: 44th National Film Awards. PDF. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
9. Web site: 45th National Film Awards. PDF. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
10. Web site: 46th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022. PDF.
11. Web site: 47th National Film Awards. PDF. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
12. Web site: 48th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022. PDF.
13. Web site: 49th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022. PDF.
14. Web site: 50th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022. PDF.
15. Web site: 51st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022. PDF.
16. Web site: 52nd National Film Awards. PDF. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
17. Web site: 53rd National Film Awards. PDF. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
18. Web site: 54th National Film Awards. PDF. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
19. Web site: 55th National Film Awards. PDF. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
20. Web site: 56th National Film Awards. PDF. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
21. Web site: 57th National Film Awards. PDF. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
22. Web site: 58th National Film Awards. PDF. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
23. Web site: 59th National Film Awards for the Year 2011 Announced. Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. March 7, 2012.
24. Web site: 60th National Film Awards (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. 20 March 2013.
25. Web site: 61st National Film Awards. PDF. Directorate of Film Festivals. 16 April 2014. 16 April 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140416181218/http://www.dff.nic.in/List%20of%20Awards.pdf. 16 April 2014.
26. Web site: 62nd National Film Awards. PDF. Directorate of Film Festivals. 30 March 2015. 14 May 2015.
27. 63rd National Film Awards. PDF. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2016. 28 March 2016.
28. 64th National Film Awards. PDF. Directorate of Film Festivals. 7 April 2017. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20170606051143/http://dff.nic.in/writereaddata/NFA64PressNote2016.pdf. 6 June 2017. dmy-all.