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National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare

{{Use Indian English|date=April 2017}}

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| subheader = National award for contributions to Indian Cinema

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| sponsor = Directorate of Film Festivals

| firstawarded = 1968

| lastawarded = 2008

| reward = {{ubl|Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus)|{{INR|50,000}}}}

| former name =

| holder_label = Most recent winner

| holder = Little Zizou

| award1_type = Total awarded

| award1_winner = 21

| award2_type = First winner

| award2_winner = Anchal Ke Phool

| award3_type = Last winner

| award3_winner = Little Zizou

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The National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare 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 feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus). At the 70th National Film Awards, the category was discontinued and combined with Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation, Best Film on National Integration and Best Film on Other Social Issues. The new award is named as Best Feature Film Promoting National, Social and Environmental Values.{{Cite web |last=Bharat |first=E. T. V. |date=2024-02-13 |title=National Film Awards Undergo Changes, Nargis Dutt, Indira Gandhi Categories Renamed |url=https://www.etvbharat.com/en/!entertainment/national-film-awards-undergo-changes-nargis-dutt-indira-gandhi-categories-renamed-enn24021305335 |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=ETV Bharat News |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2024-02-13 |title=Indira Gandhi, Nargis Dutt's names dropped from National Film Awards categories |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/story/indira-gandhi-nargis-dutts-names-dropped-from-national-film-awards-categories-2501516-2024-02-13 |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=India Today |language=en}}

The award was instituted in 1968, at 16th National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages Hindi (7 Awards), Bengali (4 Awards), Malayalam (5 awards), Tamil (3 awards), Kannada, English and Gujarati (1 each).

Winners

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Indicates a joint award for that year

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

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! colspan="6" | List of films, showing the year (award ceremony), language(s), producer(s) and director(s)

scope="col" style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:10%;"| Year

! scope="col" style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:20%;"| Film(s)

! scope="col" style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:10%;"| Language(s)

! scope="col" style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:20%;"| Producer(s)

! scope="col" style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:20%;"| Director(s)

! scope="col" style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:3%" class="unsortable" |{{Tooltip|Refs.|Reference}}

align="center" | 16th National Film Awards

! scope="row" | Anchal Ke Phool

| Hindi

| M. R. Seth

| Karunesh Thakur

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/16th_nff_1970.pdf|title=16th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=22 September 2011}}

align="center" | 17th National Film Awards

| colspan="4" bgcolor="#F5A9A9" align="center" | No Award

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/17th_NFF_1971.pdf|title=17th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=26 September 2011}}

align="center" | 18th National Film Awards

| colspan="4" bgcolor="#F5A9A9" align="center" | No Award

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/17th_NFF_1971.pdf|title=18th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=26 September 2011}}

align="center" | 19th National Film Awards

| colspan="5" |

align="center" | 20th National Film Awards

| colspan="4" bgcolor="#F5A9A9" align="center" | No Award

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm20thNFAAward.aspx|title=20th National Film Awards|publisher=International Film Festival of India|access-date=26 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105220349/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm20thNFAAward.aspx|archive-date=5 November 2013|url-status=dead}}

align="center" | 21st National Film Awards

| colspan="4" bgcolor="#F5A9A9" align="center" | No Award

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/21st_nff_1973.pdf|title=21st National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=29 September 2011}}

align="center" | 22nd National Film Awards

| colspan="4" bgcolor="#F5A9A9" align="center" | No Award

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/22nd_nff_1974.pdf|title=22nd National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=1 October 2011}}

align="center" | 23rd National Film Awards

| colspan="4" bgcolor="#F5A9A9" align="center" | No Award

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/23rd_nff_1975.pdf|title=23rd National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=4 October 2011}}

align="center" | 24th National Film Awards

| colspan="5" |

align="center" | 25th National Film Awards

| colspan="4" bgcolor="#F5A9A9" align="center" | No Award

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/25th_nff_1977.pdf|title=25th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=4 October 2011}}

align="center" | 26th National Film Awards

| colspan="4" bgcolor="#F5A9A9" align="center" | No Award

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/26th_NFA.pdf|title=26th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=4 October 2011}}

align="center" | 27th National Film Awards

| colspan="5" |

align="center" | 28th National Film Awards

| colspan="4" bgcolor="#F5A9A9" align="center" | No Award

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/28th_nff_1981.pdf|title=28th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=4 October 2011}}

align="center" | 29th National Film Awards

| colspan="4" bgcolor="#F5A9A9" align="center" | No Award

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/29th_nff_1982.pdf|title=29th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=4 October 2011}}

align="center" | 30th National Film Awards

! scope="row" | Spandan

| Hindi

| {{•}}Satyanarayanan Misra
{{•}}Abdul Majid
{{•}}Durga Nanda

| Biplab Roy Chowdhary

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/30th_nff_1983.pdf|title=30th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=4 October 2011}}

align="center" | 31st National Film Awards

| colspan="4" bgcolor="#F5A9A9" align="center" | No Award

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/31st_nff_1984.pdf|title=31st National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=9 December 2011}}

align="center" | 32nd National Film Awards

! scope="row" | Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho!

| Hindi

| Saeed Akhtar Mirza

| Saeed Akhtar Mirza

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/32nd_nff_1985.pdf|title=32nd National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=6 January 2012}}

align="center" | 33rd National Film Awards

| colspan="4" bgcolor="#F5A9A9" align="center" | No Award

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/33nfa.pdf|title=33rd National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=7 January 2012}}

align="center" | 34th National Film Awards

| colspan="4" bgcolor="#F5A9A9" align="center" | No Award

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/34th_NFF.pdf|title=34th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=7 January 2012}}

align="center" | 35th National Film Awards

| colspan="4" bgcolor="#F5A9A9" align="center" | No Award

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/35th_nff_1988.pdf|title=35th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=9 January 2012}}

align="center" | 36th National Film Awards

| colspan="4" bgcolor="#F5A9A9" align="center" | No Award

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/36nfa.pdf|title=36th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=9 January 2012}}

align="center" | 37th National Film Awards

! scope="row" | Sandhya Raagam

| Tamil

| Balu Mahendra
(A Doordarshan production)

| Balu Mahendra

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/37nfa.pdf|title=37th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=29 January 2012}}

align="center" | 38th National Film Awards

| colspan="4" bgcolor="#F5A9A9" align="center" | No Award

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/38th_nff_1991.pdf|title=38th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=9 January 2012}}

align="center" | 39th National Film Awards

! scope="row" | Durga

| Hindi

| NFDC

| Basu Chatterjee

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/39nd_nff_1985.pdf|title=39th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=27 February 2012}}

align="center" | 40th National Film Awards

! scope="row" | Shwet Paatharer Thala

| Bengali

| Shankar Gope

| Prabhat Roy

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/40th_nff_1993.pdf|title=40th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=2 March 2012}}

align="center" | 41st National Film Awards

! scope="row" | Akashadoothu

| Malayalam

| Anupama Cinema

| Siby Malayil

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/41st_nff_1994.pdf|title=41st National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=3 March 2012}}

align="center" | 42nd National Film Awards

! scope="row" | Karuththamma

| Tamil

| Vetrivel Art Creations

| Bharathiraja

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/42nd_nff_1995.pdf|title=42nd National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=5 March 2012}}

align="center" | 43rd National Film Awards

! scope="row" | Mini

| Malayalam

| Madhu

| P. Chandrakumar

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/43rd_nff_1996.pdf|title=43rd National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=6 March 2012}}

align="center" | 44th National Film Awards

! scope="row" | Lathi

| Bengali

| Robin Agarwal

| Prabhat Roy

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/44th_nff_1997.pdf|title=44th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=9 January 2012}}

align="center" | 45th National Film Awards

! scope="row" | Samaantharangal

| Malayalam

| Balachandra Menon

| Balachandra Menon

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/images/Documents/72_45thNfacatalogue.pdf|title=45th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=3 September 2020|archive-date=23 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200323163100/http://dff.nic.in/images/Documents/72_45thNfacatalogue.pdf|url-status=live}}

align="center" | 46th National Film Awards

! scope="row" | Atmiyo Swajan

| Bengali

| Dhatri Films

| Raja Sen

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/46_nff_1999.pdf|title=46th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=12 March 2012}}

align="center" | 47th National Film Awards

! scope="row" | Hari-Bhari

| Hindi

| Government of India

| Shyam Benegal

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/47th_nff_2000.pdf|title=47th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=13 March 2012}}

align="center" | 48th National Film Awards

! scope="row" | Kal Kaa Aadmi

| Hindi

| Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

| Amol Palekar

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/48th_nff_2001.pdf|title=48th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=13 March 2012}}

align="center" | 49th National Film Awards

| colspan="4" bgcolor="#F5A9A9" align="center" | No Award

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/49th_nff_2002.pdf|title=49th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=14 March 2012}}

align="center" | 50th National Film Awards

| colspan="4" bgcolor="#F5A9A9" align="center" | No Award

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/50nfa.pdf|title=50th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=14 March 2012}}

align="center" | 51st National Film Awards

! scope="row" | Paadam Onnu: Oru Vilapam

| Malayalam

| Aryadan Shaukat

| T. V. Chandran

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/51st_nff_2004.pdf|title=51st National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=15 March 2012}}

align="center" | 52nd National Film Awards

! scope="row" | Hasina

| Kannada

| Chiguru Chitra

| Girish Kasaravalli

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/52nd_nff_2005.pdf|title=52nd National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=28 January 2012}}

align="center" | 53rd National Film Awards

! scope="row" | Thavamai Thavamirundhu

|Tamil

|P. Shanmugam

|Cheran

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/53rd_nff_2006.pdf|title=53rd National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=19 March 2012}}

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| align="center" rowspan="2" | 54th National Film Awards

! scope="row" style="background-color:#E0E0D1" | Karutha Pakshikal

| Malayalam

| {{•}}Kaladharan K. V.
{{•}}Vallabhan K. G.

| Kamal

| align="center" rowspan="2" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/54th_nff_2006.pdf|title=54th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=24 March 2012}}

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! scope="row" style="background-color:#E0E0D1" | Faltu

| Bengali

| Arindam Chaudhuri

| Anjan Das

align="center" | 55th National Film Awards

! scope="row" | Taare Zameen Par

| Hindi

| Aamir Khan

| Aamir Khan

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/55th_nff_2007.pdf|title=55th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=26 March 2012}}

align="center" | 56th National Film Awards

! scope="row" | Little Zizou

| {{•}}English
{{•}}Gujarati

| Jigri Dost Productions

| Sooni Taraporevala

| align="center" |{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/56th_nff_2008.pdf|title=56th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=27 March 2012}}

References

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External links

  • [http://dff.nic.in Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India]
  • [http://dff.nic.in/NFA_archive.asp National Film Awards Archives]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20090508040421/http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/National_Film_Awards_India/ National Film Awards] at IMDb

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