Odisha Living Legend Award

Odisha Living Legend Award
Odisha Living Legend Awards
Country	India
Presented by	Odisha Diary Foundation
First award	11 November 2011;13 years ago (2011-11-11)
Website	orissadiary.com/odisha-living-legend-2016/

Odisha Living Legend Award is a civilian award conferred on people of Odisha who have done outstanding and inspiring work. It was first conferred in 2011 by Odisha Diary Foundation. These awards are given in different categories like Social Service, Public Policy, Education, Youth Inspiration, Sustainable Business, Promotion of Science and Art among others. ^[1]

In 2018 Odisha Diary Foundation instituted National Living Legend Awards. ^[2]

Guests

Union Ministers like Jual Oram have attended the Odisha Living Legend Award 2014 award function to felicitate awardees. ^[3]

Journalist Vinod Dua has attended the Odisha Living Legend Award 2017 award function to felicitate awardees. Vinod Dua was key note speaker in Living Legend Oration in 2017. ^[4]

Notable recipients

Notable award recipients includeTulasi Munda, ^[5] Haldhar Nag, ^[6] Uttam Mohanty, ^[7] Sabyasachi Mohapatra, ^[8] Nilamadhav Panda, ^[9] Prafulla Kar, ^[10] and Hariprasad Chaurasia, ^[11] Pratibha Ray.

National Living Legend Awards

• Madhu Pandit Dasa ^{[12] [13]}

Odisha Living Legend Awards for 2015

• Haldhar Nag (Literature)
• Ramachandra Behera (Literature)
• Sabaramatee Sambhav (Social Service)
• Bijoy Kumar Sahoo ( Business Leadership)
• Dinanath Pathy (Art & Culture)
• Minati Mohaptra (Sports)
• Prafulla Kar (Art & Culture)
• Akshay Parija (Film)

Odisha Living Legend Awards for 2016

Sixth Odisha Living Legend and Youth Inspiration and OdishaInc Awards Conferred ^[14]

• Trilochan Pradhan (Science)
• Dr S K Nanda (Public Policy)
• Bhagaban Meher (Art)
• Prof Amitav Acharya (Education)
• Shruti Mohapatra (Social Service)
• Shiv Sundar Das (Sports)

Odisha Living Legend Awards for 2017

7th Odisha Living Legend Award conferred ^[15]

• Pratibha Satpathy (Literature) ^[16]
• Kartik Majhi (Social Service)
• Prof. Arnapurna Pandey (Education)
• Chaturbhuj Meher (Art & Culture)
• Prasanta Nanda (Film)
• Subas Pani (Public Policy)

Odisha Living Legend Awards for 2018

• Ramakant Rath - (Literature) ^[17]
• Sisir Mishra (Film) ^[18]
• Santanu Mishra (Social Service)
• Dutee Chand, Nagpuri Ramesh (Sports)
• Masako Ono (Art & Culture)

References

1. "7th Odisha Living Legend Awards, Living Legend Oration to be held on December 22, Nominations process Starts". Orissadiary.com. 26 August 2017. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
2. "Initiation of the National Living Legend Award for the first time, which was conferred on Madhu Pandit Dasa, Chairman, The Akshaya Patra Foundation". mycitylinks.in. 17 November 2018.
3. "Union Minister Jual Oram speaking during Odisha Living Legend Award Ceremony". Jualoram.org. 2015-03-05. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
4. "Seventh Odisha Living Legend Award Conferred". 2017-12-28.
5. "12 Facts About Tulasi Apa, the Odisha Woman Who Taught 20,000+ Children in 50 Years". Thebetterindia.com. 15 May 2017. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
6. "Haldhar Nag: All you need to know about Padma Shri awardee from Odisha". Oneindia.com. 2016-03-31. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
7. "Uttam Mohanty - Awards". Uttammohanty.com. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
8. "Odisha Diary announces prestigious Odisha Living Legend Awards 2013". Odishabulletin.com. 27 October 2013. Archived from the original on 9 October 2017. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
9. "Orissa Diary presented the living legend award to 13 luminaries and one corporate house in 14 categories". Times of India . Retrieved 4 December 2017.
10. "Odisha Living Legend - Padma Shri Prafulla Kar". Curvetube.com. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
11. "Odisha Living Legends Awards to be held in Bhubaneswar on Dec 2". OdishaNewsInsight. 2015-11-18.
12. "National Living Legend Award Conferred on Madhu Pandit Dasa". 2018-11-22.
13. "National Living Legend Award 2018 to be conferred on Sri Madhu Pandit Dasa – ISKCON Times".
14. "Sixth Odisha Living Legend and Youth Inspiration and OdishaInc Awards Conferred - Voice of Western Odisha". Navratnanews.com. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
15. "7th Odisha Living Legend Award conferred". Pragativadi.com. 2017-12-24. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
16. /http://indiacsr.in/seventh-odisha-living-legend-award-conferred
17. "Noted poet Ramakanta Rath, sprinter Dutee among others bag Odisha Living Legend Awards | Sambad English". 21 November 2018. Archived from the original on February 12, 2019.
18. "Prestigious Odisha Living Legend and Youth Inspiration Awards Conferred". 18 November 2017.