Kamal Kumari National Award

Kamal Kumari National Award
Awarded by The Kamal Kumari Foundation
Type Civilian
Category National (Individual & Group)
Description
Description Art, Culture & Literature,
Science & Technology
in India.
Statistics
Instituted 1990
First awarded 1991
Last awarded 2008
Total awarded 37
Cash award Rs.200,000 in cash
First awardee(s) Sobha Brahma
Last awardee(s) Rama Kanta Rath

The Kamal Kumari National Award is an Indian Award given to individuals and groups in India for outstanding contribution to Art, Culture & Literature and Science & Technology. It was instituted by the Kamal Kumari Foundation in 1990 in memory of Kamal Kumari Barooah, the remarkable matriarch of the Khongiya Barooah family of Thengal, Assam.[1] The foundation has till date a number of awardees. The first award was given to Sobha Brahma in 1991 in the category of Culture. The award carries a cash award of Rs.200,000, a trophy and a citation.[1][2]

List of Awardees

Year Awardee From Profession Category Ref
1991 Sobha Brahma Assam Art & Culture [3]
1992 Prof. C. N. R. Rao Science & Technology [3]
1992 Prof. S P Thyagarajan Science & Technology [3]
1992 Sankha Ghosh West Bengal Art & Culture [3]
1993 Prof. Sarbeswar Buzarbaruah Assam Science & Technology [3]
1993 Nilamoni Phookan Assam Art & Culture
1994 Dilip Kumar Choudhury Science & Technology [3]
1994 Prof. Sisir Kumar Das Art & Culture [3]
1995 Dr Indira Goswami Assam Writer Art & Culture [3]
1995 Dr T S R Prasad Rao Science & Technology [3]
1996 Amita Malik New Delhi Art & Culture [3]
1996 Prof. Lakshmidhar Satpathy Bhubaneswar Science & Technology [3]
1997 Achyut Lahkar Assam Art & Culture [3]
1997 Dr Raghunath Anant Mashelkar Goa Director General, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research,
Secretary, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi.
Science & Technology [3]
1998 Navakanta Baruah Assam Art & Culture [3]
1998 Dr Vibha Dhawan New Dehli Science & Technology [3]
1999 Dr Hiren Gohain Assam Art & Culture
1999 Prof. Ashok Sen Kolkata Science & Technology
2000 Dr Bhabendra Nath Saikia Assam Art & Culture [4]
2000 Prof. J. V. Narlikar Science & Technology [4]
2001 Adoor Gopalkrishnan Trivandrum Art & Culture [4]
2001 Dr Tej P. Singh New Dehli Science & Technology [4]
2002 Dr Samir Bhattacharya Science & Technology [2][3]
2002 Maharaj Kumari Binodini Devi Manipur Art & Culture [2][3]
2003 Dr Prannoy Roy Art & Culture [3]
2003 Dr Jitendra Nath Goswami Assam Science & Technology [2][3]
2003 Jahnu Baruah Assam Film Maker Art & Culture [2][3]
2004 Dhrubajyoti Mukhopadhyay Geologist Science & Technology [5]
2004 Nabaneeta Dev Sen Distinguished litterateur Art & Culture [5]
2005 Science & Technology [5]
2005 Art & Culture [5]
2006 Prof Dhirendra Nath Burhagohain Assam Chief Technology Officer,
Civil Engineering Network System,
Pune
Science & Technology [1][3]
2006 Hemanta Mishra Artist Art & Culture [1][3]
2007 Prof Maqsood Siddiqi Kolkata Chief,
Cancer Foundation of India,
Kolkata
Science & Technology [1][3]
2007 Aribam Shyam Sharma Manipur Film Maker Art & Culture [1][3]
2008 Bhupendra Nath Goswami Pune Director,
Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology,
Pune
Science & Technology [1][3]
2008 Rama Kanta Rath Orissa Poet
Former Chairman, Sahitya Akademi.
Art & Culture [1][3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Staff Reporter (19 April 2009). "Kamal Kumari awards announced". The Assam Tribune. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Kamal Kumari awards given away". 30 November 2004. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Hueiyen News Service (20 April 2009). "Syam Sharma selected for Kamal Kumari Award". New Delhi: e-pao.net. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
  4. 1 2 3 4 UNI (21 Sep 2002). "Bhabendra Nath, Adoor win Kamal Kumari awards". Guwahati: Dailyexcelsior.com. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Kamal Kumari National Awards Presented". Guwahati: High beam. 2 April 2006. Retrieved 31 December 2009.

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