Assam CM Sarma announces names of recipients for state's highest civilian awards

Digital Desk: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday announced the names of the recipients of the state's highest civilian awards for the year 2023.

The Assam Baibhav, Assam Saurav, and Assam Gaurav are the three civilian awards.

The Assam Baibhav Award in 2023 in the category of law and justice will be conferred to Former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi. Gogoi is a former advocate and judge who served as the 46th Chief Justice of India. As the Chief Justice of India, he is the first judge from Northeast India to hold the position.

He was nominated on March 16, 2020, by President Ram Nath Kovind, and is presently a member of the Rajya Sabha.

Here is the full list of awardees for the Assam Saurav and Assam Gaurav:

  1/  Sri Ranjan Gogoi

  2/ Dr Kishan Chand Nauriyal

  3/  Elvis Ali Hazarika

  4/  Hima Das

  5/    Nadiram Deuri

  6/    Ranjit Gogoi

  7/    Parvati Barua

  8/    Debojit Changmai

  9/    Drono Bhuyan

  10/  Neelam Dutta

  11/   Anupam Deka

  12/  Soumyadeep Dutta

  13/  Basanta Chiring Phukan

  14/  Manendra Deka

  15/  Meenakshi Chetia

  16/   Pakhila Lekhtepi

  17/   Tenzing Bodosa

  18/  Nirmal Dey

  19/   Jecin Kumbang Pao

  20/  Mary Hassa

  21/  Upendra Rabha

  22/ Rahul Gupta 

         Assam Gaurav

 Notably, the Assam Civilian Awards are given out in a manner akin to those of the highest honors awarded by the Indian government, the Bharat Ratna and Padma Awards. The Award Committee decides how many prizes to give out in each category each year.

The Assam government has congratulated and thanked every one of the recipients. The prizes will be given out on February 10 with the Vice President of India as the Chief Guest, according to Himanta Biswa Sarma.

While addressing media persons, the Assam CM said, "We will confer the civilian awards of Assam on February 10. The Assam Governor will present at the occasion. The Vice President of India will attend the program as a Chief Guest."

CM Sarma further added, "The Assam Baibhav Award is the highest state civilian award. In the first year, we gave the Assam Baibhav award to Ratan Tata and last year we gave the award to Tapan Saikia. This time, the Assam government has selected former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Ranjan Gogoi for the Assam Baibhav award.”