Maha govt forms committee for Padma awards

The Maharashtra government today constituted an 11-member committee to scrutinise and recommend names from Maharashtra for the Padma Awards 2018.

The committee, comprising 10 ministers and a senior bureaucrat, will be headed by Minister for Water Conservation Ram Shinde, a government resolution (GR) issued here said.

The members will scrutinise the proposals at the state level and suggest the names to the Centre, the GR said.

-PTI