 This year’s Shakuntala Shakti National Awards and various other excellence awards were presented at a recent ceremony at Tagore Government Arts and Science College (TGASC).
Nihar Ranjan Biswas, vice-chancellor of Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth University, along with Dilip Kumar Patro, retired Orthopaedics specialist from Jipmer, and Rasanand Mohanta, an Ayurvedic practitioner associated with Sri Aurobindo Ashram, were conferred the national awards for their outstanding contributions to science and medicine. V. Mani, a retired librarian from TGASC, was also honoured with the award for his commitment to societal improvement and the field of education.
