Himanta Biswa Sarma announced the names of the recipients of the 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
Assam Baibhav
Law & Justice
2/ Dr Kishan Chand Nauriyal
Assam Saurav
Art and Culture (Archaeology)
3/ Elvis Ali Hazarika
Assam Saurav
Sports (Swimming)
4/ Hima Das
Assam Saurav
Sports (Athletics)
5/ Nadiram Deuri
Assam Saurav
Art & Culture (Tiwa Dance exponent)
6/ Ranjit Gogoi
Assam Gaurav
Art and culture (Folk & Bihu Dance Exponent)
7/ Parvati Barua
Assam Gaurav
Environment& Forest (Animal conservation activist, Human-Elephant conflict expert)
8/ Debojit Changmai
Assam Gaurav
Art and Culture (Sound Engineer)
9/ Drono Bhuyan
Assam Gaurav
Art and Culture (OjaPali)
10/ Neelam Dutta
Assam Gaurav
Agriculture (Organic Farming)
11/ Anupam Deka
Assam Gaurav
Entrepreneur (Industrialist)
12/ Soumyadeep Dutta
Assam Gaurav
Environment& Forest (Wildlife Conservation)
13/ Basanta Chiring Phukan
Assam Gaurav
Agriculture (Progressive Mushroom Cultivator)
14/ Manendra Deka
Assam Gaurav
Craft and Bamboo artist (Handicraft)
15/ Meenakshi Chetia
Assam Gaurav
ASHA Worker (Social Service)
16/ Pakhila Lekhtepi
Assam Gaurav
Art and Culture (Karbi Folk Singer)
17/ Tenzing Bodosa
Assam Gaurav
Environment& Forest (Elephant-friendly Tea Estate Establishment)
18/ Nirmal Dey
Assam Gaurav
Entrepreneur (ShitalPati)
19/ Jecin Kumbang Pao
Assam Gaurav
Handlooms (Weaving)
20/ Mary Hassa
Assam Gaurav
AWC (Social Service)
21/ Upendra Rabha
Assam Gaurav
Agriculture (Black Rice Cultivator)
22/ Rahul Gupta
Assam Gaurav
Agriculture (Hydroponic Farming)
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.”
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