National Film Award for Best Educational/Motivational/Instructional Film

National Film Award for Best Educational/Motivational/Instructional Film
National award for contributions to short film
Sponsored by	Directorate of Film Festivals
Formerly called	Best Educational Film (1960–1967) Best Educational/Instructional Film (1968–1985) Best Educational/Motivational Film (1986–1988)
Reward(s)	Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) ₹50,000
First award	1960
Final award	2021
Most recent winner	Sirpigalin Sirpangal
Highlights
Total awarded	55
First winner	Pond Culture

The National Film Award for Best Educational/Motivational/Instructional Film was one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It was one of several awards presented for non-feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).

The award was instituted in 1960, at 8th National Film Awards and awarded annually for the short films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. At the 70th National Film Awards, the award is discontinued and clubbed with National Film Award for Best Promotional Film, National Film Award for Best Scientific Film, National Film Award for Best Investigative Film, National Film Award for Best Exploration/Adventure Film, National Film Award for Best Anthropological/Ethnographic Film, National Film Award for Best Agriculture Film, National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Environment/Conservation/Preservation Film and National Film Award for Best Film on Social Issues, and two new categories were created; Best Documentary and Best Non Feature Film Promoting Social and Environmental Values. ^[1]

Winners

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

Awards legends
*	President's Silver Medal for Best Educational/Motivational/Instructional Film
*	Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Educational/Motivational/Instructional Film
*	Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Educational/Motivational/Instructional Film
*	Certificate of Merit for the Best Educational/Motivational/Instructional Film
*	Indicates a joint award for that year

List of award recipients, showing the year, film(s), language(s), producer(s) and director(s)
Year	Film	Language	Producer	Director	Refs.
1960 (8th)	Pond Culture	English	Films Division	N. K. Issar	[2]
	Cotton	English	Films Division	Krishna Kapil
	Wheat	English	Films Division	Krishna Kapil
1961 (9th)	Citrus Cultivation	English	Films Division	Krishna Kapil	[3]
	Coir Worker	English	F. R. Bilimoria	F. R. Bilimoria
	Ahvan	Hindi	Dhruva Kumar Pandya	Dhruva Kumar Pandya
1962 (10th)	Virginia Tobacco	English	Films Division	P. R. S. Pillay	[4]
	The Evolution and Races of Man	English	National Education and Information Film Ltd.	S. Sukhdev
1963 (11th)	Indian Ocean Expedition	Hindi	Children's Film Society	Shanti S. Verma	[5]
1964 (12th)	Sterilisation of the Female	Hindi	Films Division	G. H. Saraiya	[6]
1965 (13th)	Play Better Hockey	English	Children's Film Society	Shanti S. Verma	[7]
1966 (14th)
1967 (15th)	Akbar	English	J. S. Bhownagary for Films Division	Shanti S. Varma	[8]
1968 (16th)	Forest and The Man	English	K. L. Khandpur for Films Division	•Neil Gokhale  •P. B. Pendharkar	[9]
1969 (17th)	Life	English	K. L. Khandpur for Films Division	S. Gangooii	[10]
1970 (18th)	No Award				[11]
1971 (19th)
1972 (20th)	No Award				[12]
1973 (21st)	Sath Kutch Na Jayega	Hindi	•Dhiru Mistry  •Sureshwar Singh	•Dhiru Mistry  •Sureshwar Singh	[13]
1974 (22nd)	Atoms	English	(Late) Pramod Pati for Films Division	M. M. Chaudhuri of I. I. T., Kanpur	[14]
1975 (23rd)	Induced Breeding	English	K. K. Kapil	Suraj Joshi	[15]
1976 (24th)
1977 (25th)	Tobacco Habits and Oral Cancer	English	A. V. Films	Arun Khopkar	[16]
1978 (26th)	The Magic Hands	English	M/s Little Cinema	Santi P. Chowdhury	[17]
1979 (27th)
1980 (28th)	Mariculture	English	Films Division	C. J. Paulose	[18]
1981 (29th)	The Four Minutes	English	Vijay B. Chandra for Films Division	B. G. Devare	[19]
1982 (30th)	Kooduthal Paal Venamenkil	Malayalam	Kerala State Film Development Corporation	V. R. Gopinath	[20]
1983 (31st)	Oval Crop	English	Radha Narayanan	Mohi-ud-Din Mirza	[21]
1984 (32nd)	No Award				[22]
1985 (33rd)	No Award				[23]
1986 (34th)	Mitraniketan Vellanad	English	Cinemart Foundation	Jagannath Guha	[24]
	For Better Living	English	•Padmalaya Mohapatra  •Ghanashyam Mohapatra	Ghanashyam Mohapatra
1987 (35th)	Paani	Marathi	Sumitra Bhave	Sumitra Bhave	[25]
1988 (36th)	Chitthi	Hindi	Cinemart Foundation	Suhasini Mulay	[26]
1989 (37th)	Ser Alang	Karbi	Horticulturist, Karbi Anglong	Indrajit Narayan Deb	[27]
	Yun Sikhlayen Akhar	Hindi	Ramesh Asher Films	Ramesh Asher
1990 (38th)	Ducks Out of Water	English	D. Gautaman	Raj Gopal Rao	[28]
	Natun Asha	Assamese	Beauty Sabhapandit	Arup Borthakur
1991 (39th)	A Story of Triumph	English	Poona District Leprosy Committee	Vishram Revankar	[29]
1992 (40th)	Kalarippayat	English	P. Ashok Kumar	P. Ashok Kumar	[30]
	Towards Joy and Freedom	English	Haimanti Banerjee	Haimanti Banerjee
1993 (41st)	AIDS	Malayalam	•Nooranad Ramachandran  •Ganab Baby  •Ochira Sathar	Nooranad Ramachandran	[31]
1994 (42nd)	News Magazine No. 268 (A) Plague: Curable and Preventable	Hindi	R. Krishna Mohan	Mahesh P. Sinha	[32]
1995 (43rd)	Home Away From Home	English	V. B. Joshi	Late Vishram Revankar	[33]
1996 (44th)	Rabia Chalikkunnu	Malayalam	Abraham Benhur	Ali Akbar	[34]
1997 (45th)	Nirankush	Hindi	Venu Arora	Venu Arora	[35]
1998 (46th)	Silent Scream	English	Vivek K. Kumar	Vikram Kumar	[36]
1999 (47th)	No Award				[37]
2000 (48th)	Tulasi	English	Bhanumurthy Alur for Films Division	Rajgopal Rao for Films Division	[38]
2001 (49th)	Kanavu Malayilekku	Malayalam	Tomy Mathew	M. G. Sasi	[39]
2002 (50th)	No Award				[40]
2003 (51st)	Fiddlers on the Thatch	English	Rajiv Mehrotra	Trisha Das	[41]
2004 (52nd)	No Award				[42]
2005 (53rd)	No Award				[43]
2006 (54th)	Filariasis	English	A. S. Nagaraju	M. Elango	[44]
2007 (55th)	Prarambha	Kannada	Santosh Sivan	Santosh Sivan	[45]
2008 (56th)	Polio Vs. Polio Victims	•English  •Hindi  •Marathi	Gulshan Sachdeva	Aman Sachdeva	[46]
2009 (57th)	No Award				[47]
2010 (58th)	Advaitham	Telugu	K. Vijaypal Reddy	Pradeep Maadugula	[48]
2011 (59th)	A Drop of Sunshine	English	Public Service Broadcasting Trust	Aparna Sanyal	[49]
2012 (60th)	No Award				[50]
2013 (61st)	The Quantum Indians	English	Public Service Broadcasting Trust	Raja Choudhury	[51]
2014 (62nd)	Komal	English	Climb Media India Pvt. Ltd.	Prashant Shikare	[52]
	Behind the Glass Wall	English	Gaahimedia	Aruna Raje Patil
2015 (63rd)	Paywat	Marathi	Mithunchandra Chaudhari	•Nayana Dolas  •Mithunchandra Chaudhari	[53]
2016 (64th)	The Water Fall	English	Syed Sultan Ahmed	Lipika Singh Darai	[54]
2017 (65th)	The Little Girl We Were and the Women We Are		Rahi Foundation	Vaishali Sood
2018 (66th)	Sarala Virala	Kannada	H. R. Sujatha	Eregowda
2019 (67th)	Apples and Oranges	English	LXL Ideas	Rukshana Tabassum
2020 (68th)	Dreaming of Words	• Malayalam  • Tamil	Nandan	Nandan
2021 (69th)	Sirpigalin Sirpangal	Tamil	KKV Media Venture	B. Lenin

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External links

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