National Film Award for Best Children's Film
The award was instituted in 1954 , at 1st National Film Awards and awarded annually for children's films produced in the year across the country , in all Indian languages; Hindi ( 27 Awards ) , Bengali ( 7 Awards ) , Malayalam and Kannada ( 6 each ) , English ( 5 Awards ) , Marathi ( 2 Awards ) , Tamil , Telugu , Oriya and Assamese ( 1 each ) . 
<triplet> 1st National Film Awards <subj> 1954 <obj> point in time