Respected Friends, Greetings for the day , I have immense pleasure and honur in sharing the news regarding that on16 the April 2009 ,First prize won by Dr. Shankar Singh for authoring a book "Information Technology & Internet" in Hindi language. Dr. Shankar Singh has a verstalite personality. Very few people have knowledge of this fact that he is good educator .He used to share his knowledge in very simple and effortless vocabulary and can make a hard core tutorial into an easy way communication. I am thankful to Ms. Sarita Khanna who choose me to share this valuable information among the LIS community. Regards, Miss Charu Mathur, Delhi. Dear Charu, I feel proud to inform you that Dr Shankar Singh,Head ,Deptt of Library & Info Services,Power Finance Corporation Ltd,New Delhi has been awarded with First prize by Information Technology Deptt,Communication & Information Technology Ministry ,Govt of India for writing a book "Information Technology & Internet" in Hindi language. A citation for his excellent contribution and a cheque for Rs.40000.00 were given to Dr Singh by the Secretary ,Ministry of Communication & Information Technology on 16th April in a small function . Congratulations to Dr Shankar Singh Sarita -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.