Mohinder Pratap Chand

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Mohinder Pratap Chand (1 August 1935 – 19 October 2020) was an Indian Urdu poet and writer who promoted Urdu language and literature.

At Kurukshetra University, he started the Bazm-e-Adab literary group and helped include Urdu in the university curriculum. He taught Urdu there as Teacher In-charge for 26 years. He wrote more than a dozen books in Urdu and Hindi, including children’s literature.

Awards and honors:
- Adabi Sangam Award, Kurukshetra (1986) for overall contribution to Urdu and Hindi literature
- Akhil Bharti Tarun Sangam Award, Kurukshetra (1997)
- SMH Burney Award, Haryana Urdu Akademi (1995)
- Naseem-e-Layyah Award, International Bazm-e-Ilm-o-fun, Layyah, Pakistan (2004)
- Khwaja Altaf Hussain Hali Award, Haryana Waqf Board (2006)
- Mahtab-e-Sukhan, Navrang Adabi Idara, Ludhiana (2006)
- Bharat Excellence Award, Friendship Forum of India, New Delhi (2009)
- Abr Seemabi Award, Sahitya Sabha, Kaithal (2010)