Garhwal Post hosted its fourth award function at the Raj Bhawan in Mumbai . Governor of Maharashstra Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari handed over the Garhwal Post Awards under various categories. Koshyari was the Chief Guest at the function while Uttarakhand Cabinet Minister Dr Dhan Singh Rawat was the Guest of Honour. Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari praised Garhwal Post and its Editor, Satish Sharma. He said that Satish Sharma has been running an English newspaper in Dehradun regularly with consistently good content, which was a major challenge but he had achieved it.

He also praised the fact that, despite starting as a small-time publisher, Sharma had dreamt big and had now even made a name for himself in Bollywood. Internationally acclaimed actor Kabir Bedi, too, praised Garhwal Post and noted that in the present day it is a major challenge to maintain and regularly publish a daily newspaper. Garhwal Post had been able to do that for the past 25 years. Bedi was honoured with the Garhwal Post Lifetime Award.