Kota Harinarayana

Kota Harinarayana (b. 1943, in Brahmapur, Odisha) was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hyderabad^[1] and the President of the Aeronautical Society of India.^[2] He is an alumnus of the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (now Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi) ^[3](bacherlor's degree in Mechanical Engineering), Indian Institute of Science (master's in Aero Engineering) and IIT Bombay (Ph.D). He also holds a bachelor's degree in law. He is also called the Father of India's Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas Programme^[4]

Awards and honours

Distinguished Scientist Award, Defence Research Development Organization, India^[5]
Padma Shri, 2002^[6]

References

↑ "German grant for Hyderabad varsity". The Hindu Business Line. 4 November 2004. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
↑ "Kalam for updating aeronautical policy". The Hindu. 22 January 2003. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
↑ http://www.itbhuglobal.org/chronicle/archives/2011/08/scientist_kota.php
↑ "Zephyr 2009 - Celebrating the Spirit of Aviation - Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay". aero.iitb.ac.in. Retrieved 30 May 2011.
↑ "`LCA is about creating wealth for country' -- Dr Kota Harinarayana, Programme Director (LCA), Aeronautical Development Agency". The Hindu Business Line. 13 January 2001. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
↑ "Padma Vibhushan for Rangarajan, Soli Sorabjee". The Hindu. 26 January 2002. Retrieved 27 January 2010.

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Padma Award winners of Odisha

Padma Vibhushan

Kelucharan Mohapatra (2000) Sitakant Mahapatra (2010) Raghunath Mohapatra (2013)

Padma Bhushan

Mahadeva Iyer Ganapati (1954) Prana Krushna Parija (1955) Nilakantha Das (1960) Radhanath Rath (1968) Kalindi Charan Panigrahi (1971) Gopinath Mohanty (1981) Kelucharan Mohapatra(1988) Trilochan Pradhan (1990) Raghunath Mohapatra (2001) Sitakant Mahapatra (2003) Ramakanta Rath (2006) Ramakanta Panda* (2010) Jatin Das (2012) Jogesh Pati* (2013)

Padma Shri

Laxminarayan Sahu (1955)
Sailabala Das (1959)
Lakshman Singh Jangpangi (1959)
Artaballabha Mohanty (1960)
Parshuram Mishra (1961)
Shanti Kumar Tribhuvandas Raja (1962)
Sachidananda Routray (1962)
Paramananda Acharya (1964)
Kruthartha Acharya (1965)
Swami Bichitranada Das (1966)
Mayadhar Mansingh (1967)
Abhin Chandra Rao (1968)
Sadashiv Rath Sharma (1969)
Mohan Nayak (1970)
Sadasiv Misra (1971)
G. Subbukrishna Melkote (1972)
Kelucharan Mohapatra (1974)
Satya Narayan Rajguru (1974)
Sanjukta Panigrahi (1975)
Nimai Charan Harichandan (1976)
Raghunath Mohapatra (1976)
Krushna Chandra Panigrahi (1976)
Prafulla Kumar Jena (1977)
Basantibala Jena (1984)
Jadunath Supakar*
Binod Kanungo (1986)
Sudarshan Sahoo (1988)
Radha Mohan Gadanayak (1990)
Surendra Mohanty (1991)
Pankaj Charan Das (1992)
Bhagaban Sahu (1992)
Priyambada Mohanty Hejmadi (1998)
Kunja Bihari Meher (1998)
Manoj Das* (2001)
Tulasi Munda (2001)
Gopal Chhotray (2002)
Kota Harinarayana* (2002)
Gopal Chandra Mitra (2003)
Dilip Tirkey (2004)
Maguni Charan Das (2004)
Manoranjan Das (2004)
Nalini Ranjan Mohanty* (2004)
Chaturbhuj Meher (2005)
Kumkum Mohanty (2005)
Madhu Sudan Kanungo* (2005)
Ileana Citaristi (2006)
Ghanashyam Mishra (2006)
Pratibha Ray (2007)
Rabi Narayan Bastia* (2007)
Gangadhar Pradhan (2008)
Srinibash Udgata (2008)
Jayanta Mahapatra (2009)
Raghunath Panigrahi (2010)
Ignace Tirkey (2010)
Apurba Kishore Bir (2013)
Kailash Chandra Meher (2013)
Taraprasad Das (2013)
Ajay Kumar Parida* (2014)
Geeta Mahalik (2014)
Subrat Kumar Acharya (2014)
Sudarsan Pattnaik (2014)
Prafulla Kar (2015)
Haldhar Nag (2016)
Nila Madhab Panda* (2016)

*birth place Odisha

Padma Shri awards

1954–59 1960–69 1970–79 1980–89 1990–99 2000–09 2010–19

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