The new award is named as Best Feature Film Promoting National, Social and Environmental Values.
This category was introduced to be awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.
It has been presented for films in seven languages with the highest being twelve in Hindi, followed by ten in Malayalam, five in Tamil, four in Marathi, three in Bengali, two in Kannada and one in Telugu.
[5][6] The inaugural award was conferred upon production banner Sanket (Rajat Kamal and ₹ 30,000) and director Shankar Nag (Rajat Kamal and ₹ 15,000) for their Kannada film Accident for dealing with the bold topic of whistleblowing against political corruption and dealing with bad effects of alcoholism.
[8] The award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize to the producers and director each.