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. 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.
List of Awardees
YearAwardeeFromProfessionCategoryRef1991Sobha BrahmaAssamBodo writerArt & Culture1992C. N. R. RaoKarnatakaSolid State chemistScience & Technology1992S. P. ThyagarajanTamil NaduMicrobiologistScience & Technology1992Sankha GhoshWest BengalBengali poetArt & Culture1993Sarbeswar BujarbaruaAssamPlasma scientistScience & Technology1993Nilmani PhookanAssamAssamese poetArt & Culture1994Dilip Kumar ChoudhuryAssamPhysicistScience & Technology1994Sisir Kumar DasWest BengalBengali writerArt & Culture1995Indira GoswamiAssamAssamese WriterArt & Culture1995T. S. R. Prasada RaoAndhra PradeshMolecular catalysisScience & Technology1996Amita MalikNew DelhiMedia criticArt & Culture1996Lakshmidhar SatpathyBhubaneswarNuclear physicistScience & Technology1997Achyut LahkarAssamTheatre personalityArt & Culture1997Raghunath Anant MashelkarGoaFormer Director General, CSIRScience & Technology1998Nabakanta BaruaAssamAssamese writerArt & Culture1998Vibha DhawanNew DelhiBiotechnologistScience & Technology1999Hiren GohainAssamSocial scientistArt & Culture1999Ashoke SenKolkataTheoretical physicistScience & Technology2000Bhabendra Nath SaikiaAssamAssamese writerArt & Culture2000Jayant NarlikarMaharashtraAstrophysicistScience & Technology2001Adoor GopalakrishnanKeralaFilmmakerArt & Culture2001Tej P. SinghNew DelhiBiophysicistScience & Technology2002Samir BhattacharyaWest BengalBiotechnologistScience & Technology2002Maharaj Kumari Binodini DeviManipurManipuri writerArt & Culture2003Prannoy RoyWest BengalPsephologistArt & Culture2003Jitendra Nath GoswamiAssamAstrophysicistScience & Technology2003Jahnu BaruahAssamFilm MakerArt & Culture2004Dhrubajyoti MukhopadhyayWest BengalGeologistScience & Technology2004Nabaneeta Dev SenWest BengalWriter and academicArt & Culture2005Joyanti ChutiaAssamPhysicistScience & Technology2005Kanaksen DekaAssamAssamese writerArt & Culture2006Dhirendra Nath BurhagohainAssamCivil EngineerScience & Technology2006Hemanta MishraNepalWriterArt & Culture2007Maqsood SiddiqiKolkataChief, Cancer Foundation of India KolkataScience & Technology2007Aribam Syam SharmaManipurFilmmakerArt & Culture2008Bhupendra Nath GoswamiPuneFormer DirectorIndian Institute of Tropical MeteorologyScience & Technology2008Ramakanta RathOrissaPoetFormer Chairman, Sahitya Akademi.Art & Culture2009Roddam NarasimhaKarnatakaAerospace scientist Indian Institute of ScienceScience & Technology2009Parveen SultanaAssamClassical singerArt & Culture2010Ramesh C. DekaAssamOtorhynolaryngologistAll India Institute of Medical SciencesScience & Technology2010Amaresh DattaAssamProfessorGuwahati UniversityArt & Culture2011Shri Krishna JoshiUttarakhandPhysicistIIT RoorkeeArt & Culture2011Heisnam KanhailalManipurTheatre personalityFounder-Director of Kalakshetra ManipurArt & Culture2012Dhiraj BoraGandhinagarProfessorInstitute for Plasma ResearchScience & Technology2012Aisharjya P. KonwarAssamPainterArt & Culture2012Pushpa BhuyanAssamDancerArt & Culture
See also Kamal Kumari Barooah The Kamal Kumari Foundation Siva Prasad Barooah National Award
References
Kamal Kumari awards presented
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