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Odisha Bigyan Academy announced various awards for scientists for the year 2021 and 2022

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Bhubaneswar:6/12/23: Odisha Bigyan Academy with the approval of Science and Technology Department announced various awards for scientists for the year 2021 and 2022.

Prof Pravat Kumar Mohapatra(Sambalpur) and Prof Bidyut Kumar Das(SCB Medical College and Hospital, Cuttack) will receive “Biju Pattnaik Award” for Scientific Excellence for the year 2021 and 2022 respectively. The award carries cash award of Rs. 2 Lakh along with a medallion, memento, citation, etc.

In the category of “Samanta Chandra Sekahar Award” for the year 2021 Prof. Hrudayanath Thatoi,(Life Science), Dr. Bikash Kumar Jena(Physical Science), Dr. Ashok Kumar Sahu (Engg. & Techonology) and Dr. Narayan Prasad Padhy (Engg. & Techonology) and for the year 2022, Prof. Ramesh Chandra Patra (Life Science), Dr. Bhagyadhara Bhoi (Engg. & Techonology) and Prof Debi Prasanna Kanungo (CSIR, Roorkee) will be awarded. They will be given Rs. 1 lakh along with citation and memento. Dr. Basudeba Kar, Dr. Swagatika Dash, Dr. Bishnu Prasad Biswal will receive Odisha Young Scientists Award for the year 2021 while Dr. Soumya Ranjan Jena, Dr. Uttam Kumar Panigrahi, Dr. Soumya Prakash Dash and Dr. Rekha

Biswal will get this award for the year 2022. Pranakrushna Parija Popular Science Book Award goes to Sri Arun Kumar Patra, Dr. Asit Kumar Swain for the year 2021 and Shri Kartik Swain and Dr. Subhendu Patnaik for the year 2022. The young scientists and the authors will receive cash award of Rs. 25,00/- with citation and memento.

As senior scientist with remarkable contribution Dr. Subasini Lenka, Dr. Nikhilananda Panigrahi, Prof. Ganapati Panda, Dr. Dhirendra Kumar Das and Dr. Ramachandra Mohanty for the year 2021 and Dr. Suboda Kumar Sahu, Dr. Bijay Ketan Patnaik, Prof. Siba Prasad Adhikary, Prof. Satyaban Jena and Dr. Monaranjan Kar for the year 2022 will be felicitated. The awards and felicitation ceremony will be held in near future.

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Ashok Palit has completed his graduation from Upendranath College Soro, Balasore and post graduation from Utkal University in Odia Language and literture.. He has also carved out a niche for himself as a scribe of eminence after joining the profession in 1988. He is also an independent media production professional. He brings loads of experience to Advanced Media, Ashok Palit as a cineaste has been active in film criticism for over three decades. As a film society activist, he soared to eminence for his profound commitment to the art film appreciation and aesthetics of cinema. His mode of discourse is often erudite but always lucid and comprehensible marked by a perfect acumen so rare in the field. A film aesthete with an immense fond of critical sensibilities, he wrote about growth and development of odia cinema in New Indian Express, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Asian Age and Screen. He has been working as an Editor for Cine Samaya from 2002-2004.. He had made solid contribution on cinema in many odia Dailies and weekly such as Samaj, Prajatantra, Dharatri, Samaya, Satabadi, and weekly Samaya.
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