Kamal Kumari National Award

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Kamal Kumari National Award
Civilian award for contributions to Art, Culture & Literature and Science & Technology
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Awarded forArt, Culture & Literature,
Science & Technology
Sponsored by The Kamal Kumari Foundation
Reward(s)₹ 200,000 in cash
First award1991
Final award2012
Highlights
First winner Sobha Brahma
Last winner Dhiraj Bora
Aisharjya P. Konwar
Pushpa Bhuyan

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]

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List of Awardees

YearAwardeeFromProfessionCategoryRef
1991Sobha Brahma Assam Bodo writerArt & Culture [3]
1992 C. N. R. Rao KarnatakaSolid State chemistScience & Technology [3]
1992S. P. ThyagarajanTamil NaduMicrobiologistScience & Technology [3]
1992 Sankha Ghosh West Bengal Bengali poetArt & Culture [3]
1993 Sarbeswar Bujarbarua Assam Plasma scientistScience & Technology [3]
1993 Nilmani Phookan Assam Assamese poetArt & Culture
1994Dilip Kumar ChoudhuryAssamPhysicistScience & Technology [3]
1994 Sisir Kumar Das West BengalBengali writerArt & Culture [3]
1995 Indira Goswami Assam Assamese WriterArt & Culture [3]
1995T. S. R. Prasada RaoAndhra PradeshMolecular catalysisScience & Technology [3]
1996 Amita Malik New DelhiMedia criticArt & Culture [3]
1996Lakshmidhar Satpathy Bhubaneswar Nuclear physicistScience & Technology [3]
1997 Achyut Lahkar Assam Theatre personalityArt & Culture [3]
1997 Raghunath Anant Mashelkar Goa Former Director General, CSIR Science & Technology [3]
1998 Nabakanta Barua Assam Assamese writerArt & Culture [3]
1998Vibha Dhawan New Delhi BiotechnologistScience & Technology [3]
1999 Hiren Gohain Assam Social scientistArt & Culture
1999 Ashoke Sen Kolkata Theoretical physicistScience & Technology
2000 Bhabendra Nath Saikia Assam Assamese writerArt & Culture [4]
2000 Jayant Narlikar MaharashtraAstrophysicistScience & Technology [4]
2001 Adoor Gopalakrishnan Kerala FilmmakerArt & Culture [4]
2001 Tej P. Singh New Delhi BiophysicistScience & Technology [4]
2002Samir BhattacharyaWest BengalBiotechnologistScience & Technology [2] [3]
2002 Maharaj Kumari Binodini Devi Manipur Manipuri writerArt & Culture [2] [3]
2003 Prannoy Roy West Bengal Psephologist Art & Culture [3]
2003 Jitendra Nath Goswami Assam AstrophysicistScience & Technology [2] [3]
2003 Jahnu Baruah Assam Film MakerArt & Culture [2] [3]
2004Dhrubajyoti MukhopadhyayWest BengalGeologistScience & Technology [5]
2004 Nabaneeta Dev Sen West BengalWriter and academicArt & Culture [5]
2005 Joyanti Chutia AssamPhysicistScience & Technology [5]
2005Kanaksen DekaAssamAssamese writerArt & Culture [5]
2006Dhirendra Nath Burhagohain Assam Civil EngineerScience & Technology [1] [3]
2006 Hemanta Mishra NepalWriterArt & Culture [1] [3]
2007Maqsood Siddiqi Kolkata Chief, Cancer Foundation of India
Kolkata		Science & Technology [1] [3]
2007 Aribam Syam Sharma Manipur FilmmakerArt & Culture [1] [3]
2008 Bhupendra Nath Goswami Pune Former Director
Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology 		Science & Technology [1] [3]
2008 Ramakanta Rath Orissa Poet
Former Chairman, Sahitya Akademi.		Art & Culture [1] [3]
2009 Roddam Narasimha Karnataka Aerospace scientist
Indian Institute of Science 		Science & Technology [6]
2009 Parveen Sultana Assam Classical singerArt & Culture [7]
2010 Ramesh C. Deka Assam Otorhynolaryngologist
All India Institute of Medical Sciences 		Science & Technology [8]
2010 Amaresh Datta Assam Professor
Guwahati University 		Art & Culture [8]
2011 Shri Krishna Joshi Uttarakhand Physicist
IIT Roorkee 		Art & Culture [9]
2011 Heisnam Kanhailal Manipur Theatre personality
Founder-Director of Kalakshetra Manipur 		Art & Culture [10]
2012 Dhiraj Bora Gandhinagar Professor
Institute for Plasma Research 		Science & Technology [11]
2012Aisharjya P. Konwar Assam PainterArt & Culture [11]
2012 Pushpa Bhuyan Assam DancerArt & Culture [11]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Staff Reporter (19 April 2009). "Kamal Kumari awards announced". The Assam Tribune. Archived from the original on 19 February 2012. 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 September 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. 2 April 2006. Archived from the original on 2 November 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
  6. ↑ "Brief Profile". JNCASR. 2016.
  7. ↑ "National Awards". Culturopedia. 2016.
  8. 1 2 "Kamal Kumari awards declared". Assam Tribune. 16 October 2011. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 25 December 2016.
  9. ↑ "Kamal Kumari awards presented". Assam Tribune. 25 November 2012. Archived from the original on 25 December 2016. Retrieved 25 December 2016.
  10. ↑ "Heisnam Kanhailal". Kalakshetra Manipur. 2016. Archived from the original on 5 November 2016. Retrieved 25 December 2016.
  11. 1 2 3 "Kamal Kumari National Awards to Puspa Bhuyan". The Eastern Today. 10 February 2016.
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