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Renowned poet Binod Nayak passed away on 15.11.2003.
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Since 1993, this prestigious award has been conferred to twenty eminent persons, Radhamohan Gadanayak, Krushna Chandra Tripathy, Natabar Samantray, Rajkishore Pattnaik, laxmindhar Nayak, Gouri Kumar Brahma, Nityananda Mohapatra, Binod Chandra Nayak, Basant Kumari Pattnaik, Achyutananda Pati, Chintamani Behera, Manoranjan Das, Umashankar Panda, Sudarsan Acharya, Manoj Das, Mohapatra Nilamani Sahu, Dasarathi Das, Chandrasekhar Rath, Gaganendra Dash and Brajanath Rath.
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