CleanupBot at 04:52, 21 August 2022

2022-08-21T04:52:46Z

New page

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2013}}
{{update|date=November 2012}}
{{Infobox award
| country = India
| name = Kamal Kumari National Award
| image = [[File:kkaward logo.jpg]]
| image_size =
| alt =
| caption =
| subheader = Civilian award for contributions to Art, Culture & Literature and Science & Technology
| awarded_for = Art, Culture & Literature, Science & Technology
| sponsor = [[The Kamal Kumari Foundation]]
| firstawarded = 1991
| lastawarded = 2012
| reward = {{INR}}200,000 in cash
| former name =
| holder_label = Most recent winner
| holder =
| award1_type = Total awarded
| award1_winner =
| award2_type = First winner
| award2_winner = [[Sobha Brahma]]
| award3_type = Last winner
| award3_winner = [[Dhiraj Bora]] Aisharjya P. Konwar Pushpa Bhuyan
| website =
| previous =
| next =
}}
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]].<ref name="ab">{{cite web|url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=apr2009/at02|title=Kamal Kumari awards announced|last=Staff Reporter|date=19 April 2009|publisher=The Assam Tribune|accessdate=31 December 2009}}</ref> 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.<ref name="ab" /><ref name="ef">{{cite web|url=http://www.vedanti.com/News/Backup/Backup/Political%20News/2004/11-2004.doc|title=Kamal Kumari awards given away|date=30 November 2004|accessdate=31 December 2009}}</ref>

==List of Awardees==
<gallery mode=packed heights=75 style="float:right; clear:right; width:250px; border:1px #aaa solid">
File:Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao 03650.JPG|[[C. N. R. Rao]]

File:Mamoni Raisom Goswami (cropped).JPG|[[Mamoni Raisom Goswami]]
File:Prof RC Deka.jpg|[[Ramesh C. Deka]]
File:TPSingh.jpg|[[Tej P. Singh]]
File:Jahnu Baruah.JPG|[[Jahnu Barua]]
File:Adoorgopalakrishnanpic.jpg|[[Adoor Gopalakrishnan]]
File:Ramesh Mashelkar Apr09.jpg|[[Raghunath Anant Mashelkar]]
File:Prannoy Roy.jpg|[[Prannoy Roy]]
File:Jayant Vishnu Narlikar - Kolkata 2007-03-20 07324.jpg|[[Jayant Narlikar]]

File:Hemanta Mishra hugging a Nepali elephant.jpg|[[Hemanta Mishra]]
File:Nabaneeta Dev Sen.jpg|[[Nabaneeta Dev Sen]]
File:Aribam Syam Profile (4).jpg|[[Aribam Syam Sharma]]
File:Ramakanta Rath Odia Author.jpg|[[Ramakanta Rath]]
File:Roddam narasimha.jpg|[[Roddam Narasimha]]
File:Parveen Sultana.jpg|[[Parveen Sultana]]
File:Amita Malik BITS 1983.jpg|[[Amita Malik]]
</gallery>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Year
!Awardee
!From
!Profession
!Category
!Ref
|-
|1991
|Sobha Brahma
|[[Assam]]
|Bodo writer
|Art & Culture
|<ref name="cd">{{cite web|url=http://www.e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=25..210409.apr09|title=Syam Sharma selected for Kamal Kumari Award|last=Hueiyen News Service |date=20 April 2009|publisher=e-pao.net|accessdate=31 December 2009|location=New Delhi}}</ref>
|-
|1992
|[[C. N. R. Rao]]
|Karnataka
|Solid State chemist
|Science & Technology
|<ref name="cd" />
|-
|1992
|S. P. Thyagarajan
|Tamil Nadu
|Microbiologist
|Science & Technology
|<ref name="cd" />
|-
|1992
|[[Sankha Ghosh]]
|[[West Bengal]]
|Bengali poet
|Art & Culture
|<ref name="cd" />
|-
|1993
|[[Sarbeswar Bujarbarua]]
|[[Assam]]
|Plasma scientist
|Science & Technology
|<ref name="cd" />
|-
|1993
|[[Nilmani Phookan (Junior)|Nilmani Phookan]]
|[[Assam]]
|Assamese poet
|Art & Culture
|
|-
|1994
|Dilip Kumar Choudhury
|Assam
|Physicist
|Science & Technology
|<ref name="cd" />
|-
|1994
|[[Sisir Kumar Das]]
|West Bengal
|Bengali writer
|Art & Culture
|<ref name="cd" />
|-
|1995
|[[Indira Goswami]]
|[[Assam]]
|Assamese Writer
|Art & Culture
|<ref name="cd" />
|-
|1995
|T. S. R. Prasada Rao
|Andhra Pradesh
|Molecular catalysis
|Science & Technology
|<ref name="cd" />
|-
|1996
|[[Amita Malik]]
|New Delhi
|Media critic
|Art & Culture
|<ref name="cd" />
|-
|1996
|Lakshmidhar Satpathy
|[[Bhubaneswar]]
|Nuclear physicist
|Science & Technology
|<ref name="cd" />
|-
|1997
|[[Achyut Lahkar]]
|[[Assam]]
|Theatre personality
|Art & Culture
|<ref name="cd" />
|-
|1997
|[[Raghunath Anant Mashelkar]]
|[[Goa]]
|Former Director General, [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research|CSIR]]
|Science & Technology
|<ref name="cd" />
|-
|1998
|[[Nabakanta Barua]]
|[[Assam]]
|Assamese writer
|Art & Culture
|<ref name="cd" />
|-
|1998
|Vibha Dhawan
|[[New Delhi]]
|Biotechnologist
|Science & Technology
|<ref name="cd" />
|-
|1999
|[[Hiren Gohain]]
|[[Assam]]
|Social scientist
|Art & Culture
|
|-
|1999
|[[Ashoke Sen]]
|[[Kolkata]]
|Theoretical physicist
|Science & Technology
|
|-
|2000
|[[Bhabendra Nath Saikia]]
|[[Assam]]
|Assamese writer
|Art & Culture
|<ref name="ij">{{cite web|url=http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/02sep22/national.htm#9|title=Bhabendra Nath, Adoor win Kamal Kumari awards|last=UNI|date=21 Sep 2002|publisher=Dailyexcelsior.com|accessdate=31 December 2009|location=Guwahati}}</ref>
|-
|2000
|[[Jayant Narlikar]]
|Maharashtra
|Astrophysicist
|Science & Technology
|<ref name="ij" />
|-
|2001
|[[Adoor Gopalakrishnan]]
|[[Kerala]]
|Filmmaker
|Art & Culture
|<ref name="ij" />
|-
|2001
|[[Tej P. Singh]]
|[[New Delhi]]
|Biophysicist
|Science & Technology
|<ref name="ij" />
|-
|2002
|Samir Bhattacharya
|West Bengal
|Biotechnologist
|Science & Technology
|<ref name="ef" /><ref name="cd" />
|-
|2002
|[[M. K. Binodini Devi|Maharaj Kumari Binodini Devi]]
|[[Manipur]]
|Manipuri writer
|Art & Culture
|<ref name="ef" /><ref name="cd" />
|-
|2003
|[[Prannoy Roy]]
|West Bengal
|[[Psephologist]]
|Art & Culture
|<ref name="cd" />
|-
|2003
|[[Jitendra Nath Goswami]]
|[[Assam]]
|Astrophysicist
|Science & Technology
|<ref name="ef" /><ref name="cd" />
|-
|2003
|[[Jahnu Baruah]]
|[[Assam]]
|Film Maker
|Art & Culture
|<ref name="ef" /><ref name="cd" />
|-
|2004
|Dhrubajyoti Mukhopadhyay
|West Bengal
|Geologist
|Science & Technology
|<ref name="gh">{{cite web|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1014170351.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102083112/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1014170351.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 November 2012|title=Kamal Kumari National Awards Presented|date=2 April 2006|publisher=High beam|accessdate=31 December 2009|location=Guwahati}}</ref>
|-
|2004
|[[Nabaneeta Dev Sen]]
|West Bengal
|Writer and academic
|Art & Culture
|<ref name="gh" />
|-
|2005
|[[Joyanti Chutia]]
|Assam
|Physicist
|Science & Technology
|<ref name="gh" />
|-
|2005
|Kanaksen Deka
|Assam
|Assamese writer
|Art & Culture
|<ref name="gh" />
|-
|2006
|Dhirendra Nath Burhagohain
|[[Assam]]
|Civil Engineer
|Science & Technology
|<ref name="ab" /><ref name="cd" />
|-
|2006
|[[Hemanta Mishra]]
|Nepal
|Writer
|Art & Culture
|<ref name="ab" /><ref name="cd" />
|-
|2007
|Maqsood Siddiqi
|[[Kolkata]]
|Chief, Cancer Foundation of India Kolkata
|Science & Technology
|<ref name="ab" /><ref name="cd" />
|-
|2007
|[[Aribam Syam Sharma]]
|[[Manipur]]
|Filmmaker
|Art & Culture
|<ref name="ab" /><ref name="cd" />
|-
|2008
|[[Bhupendra Nath Goswami]]
|[[Pune]]
|Former Director [[Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology]]
|Science & Technology
|<ref name="ab" /><ref name="cd" />
|-
|2008
|[[Ramakanta Rath]]
|[[Orissa, India|Orissa]]
|Poet Former Chairman, Sahitya Akademi.
|Art & Culture
|<ref name="ab" /><ref name="cd" />
|-
|2009
|[[Roddam Narasimha]]
|[[Karnataka]]
|Aerospace scientist [[Indian Institute of Science]]
|Science & Technology
|<ref name="Brief Profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.jncasr.ac.in/roddam/index.php?menu_id=2&user_id=12&page_id=560 |title=Brief Profile |date=2016 |publisher=JNCASR}}</ref>
|-
|2009
|[[Parveen Sultana]]
|[[Assam]]
|Classical singer
|Art & Culture
|<ref name="National Awards">{{Cite web |url=http://www.culturopedia.net/Awards/awards_national.html |title=National Awards|date=2016|publisher=Culturopedia}}</ref>
|-
|2010
|[[Ramesh C. Deka]]
|[[Assam]]
|[[Otorhinolaryngology|Otorhynolaryngologist]] [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences]]
|Science & Technology
|<ref name="Kamal Kumari awards declared">{{Cite web |url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=oct1611/city04 |title=Kamal Kumari awards declared |date=16 October 2011 |publisher=Assam Tribune}}</ref>
|-
|2010
|[[Amaresh Datta]]
|[[Assam]]
|Professor [[Guwahati University]]
|Art & Culture
|<ref name="Kamal Kumari awards declared" />
|-
|2011
|[[Shri Krishna Joshi]]
|[[Uttarakhand]]
|Physicist [[IIT Roorkee]]
|Art & Culture
|<ref name="Kamal Kumari awards presented">{{Cite web |url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=nov2512/at05 |title=Kamal Kumari awards presented |date=25 November 2012 |publisher=Assam Tribune}}</ref>
|-
|2011
|[[Heisnam Kanhailal]]
|[[Manipur]]
|Theatre personality Founder-Director of [[Kalakshetra Manipur]]
|Art & Culture
|<ref name="Heisnam Kanhailal">{{Cite web |url=http://kalakshetramanipur.org/index.php/home/heisnam-kanhailal/ |title=Heisnam Kanhailal |date=2016 |publisher=Kalakshetra Manipur}}</ref>
|-
|2012
|[[Dhiraj Bora]]
|[[Gandhinagar]]
|Professor [[Institute for Plasma Research]]
|Science & Technology
|<ref name="Kamal Kumari National Awards to Puspa Bhuyan">{{Cite web |url=http://eastern-today.com/entries/blog/-kamal-kumari-national-awards-to-puspa-bhuyan |title=Kamal Kumari National Awards to Puspa Bhuyan |date=10 February 2016 |publisher=The Eastern Today}}</ref>
|-
|2012
|Aisharjya P. Konwar
|[[Assam]]
|Painter
|Art & Culture
|<ref name="Kamal Kumari National Awards to Puspa Bhuyan" />
|-
|2012
|[[Pushpa Bhuyan]]
|[[Assam]]
|Dancer
|Art & Culture
|<ref name="Kamal Kumari National Awards to Puspa Bhuyan" />
|}

==See also==
*[[Kamal Kumari Barooah]]
*[[The Kamal Kumari Foundation]]
*[[Siva Prasad Barooah National Award]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
*[http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=jun2909/at04 Kamal Kumari awards presented]

==External links==
*[http://kkfindia.org/award.html Official Website]

[[Category:Civil awards and decorations of Assam]]
[[Category:Awards established in 1990]]
[[Category:Indian art awards]]
[[Category:1990 establishments in Assam]]

Kamal Kumari National Award - Revision history

CleanupBot at 04:52, 21 August 2022