MUMBAI: India TV has announced its first "Yuva Awards", an award event that will honour the "most promising" young faces of the nation.

Positioned as an aspirational salute to yuva (youth) icons who have shown leadership and extraordinary excellence in respective fields with achievements much bigger than their age.

The awards will be given away in six categories: Politics, Sports, Music, Film, Television and Business.

The honorees for the inaugural annual property by India TV will be decided through a process that involves the tabulation and stratified research by an international research agency and India TV viewers? votes and the diligent deliberations by the Jury.

The jury will be chaired by Sarod Maestro Ustaad Amjad Ali Khan. The panel comprises of personalities like Kapil Dev, Vandana Luthra and Pushpesh Pant. India TV chairman and editor in chief Rajat Sharma will also be part of the Jury.

India TV MD and CEO Ritu Dhawan said, "Yuva awards is a humble attempt to inspire iconic potential of Young Indians who will take our nation to newer heights. These youth icons will be those who have already displayed enormous potential and made it big at their young age. They have created benchmarks in their respective fields and brought pride to our nation."

The winners of the awards will announced at an awards ceremony at the Taj Palace, New Delhi on the 18 of February and the show will be telecasted live on India TV.

The awards have Real Estate Company Prateek Group as principle sponsor and Galgotias University as associate.