The Kamal Kumari National Award is an Indian Award given to individuals and groups in India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 for outstanding contribution to Art, Culture & Literature and Science & Technology. It was instituted by the Kamal Kumari Foundation

Kamal Kumari Foundation

The Kamal Kumari Foundation is a charitable trust in Assam established in 1990 in the fond memory of Kamal Kumari Barooah, the remarkable matriarch of the Khongiya Barooah family of Thengal, Assam...

 in 1990 in memory of Kamal Kumari Barooah

Kamal Kumari Barooah

Kamal Kumari Barooah was the matriarch of the Khongiya Barooah family of Thengal, Assam. She was born to Mahendranath Mahanta and Swarnalata Mahanta at Borelengi Satra...

, the remarkable matriarch of the Khongiya Barooah family of Thengal, Assam

Assam

Assam , also, rarely, Assam Valley and formerly the Assam Province , is a northeastern state of India and is one of the most culturally and geographically distinct regions of the country...

. 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. 2 lakh, a trophy and a citation.

List of Awardees

Year	Awardee	From	Profession	Category	Ref
1991	Sobha Brahma	Assam Assam Assam , also, rarely, Assam Valley and formerly the Assam Province , is a northeastern state of India and is one of the most culturally and geographically distinct regions of the country...		Art & Culture
1992	Prof. C N R Rao			Science & Technology
1992	Prof. S P Thyagarajan			Science & Technology
1992	Sankha Ghosh			Art & Culture
1993	Prof. Sarbeswar Buzarbaruah	Assam Assam Assam , also, rarely, Assam Valley and formerly the Assam Province , is a northeastern state of India and is one of the most culturally and geographically distinct regions of the country...		Science & Technology
1993	Nilamoni Phookan	Assam Assam Assam , also, rarely, Assam Valley and formerly the Assam Province , is a northeastern state of India and is one of the most culturally and geographically distinct regions of the country...		Art & Culture
1994	Dilip Kumar Choudhury			Science & Technology
1994	Prof. Sisir Kumar Das			Art & Culture
1995	Dr Indira Goswami	Assam Assam Assam , also, rarely, Assam Valley and formerly the Assam Province , is a northeastern state of India and is one of the most culturally and geographically distinct regions of the country...	Writer	Art & Culture
1995	Dr T S R Prasad Rao			Science & Technology
1996	Amita Malik	New Delhi		Art & Culture
1996	Prof. Lakshmidhar Satpathy	Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar is the capital of the Indian state of Orissa, officially Odisha. The city has a long history of over 2000 years starting with Chedi dynasty who had Sisupalgarh near present-day Bhubaneswar as their capital...		Science & Technology
1997	Achyut Lahkar	Assam Assam Assam , also, rarely, Assam Valley and formerly the Assam Province , is a northeastern state of India and is one of the most culturally and geographically distinct regions of the country...		Art & Culture
1997	Dr Raghunath Anant Mashelkar	Goa Goa Goa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...	Director General, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, Secretary, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi.	Science & Technology
1998	Navakanta Baruah	Assam Assam Assam , also, rarely, Assam Valley and formerly the Assam Province , is a northeastern state of India and is one of the most culturally and geographically distinct regions of the country...		Art & Culture
1998	Dr Vibha Dhawan	New Dehli		Science & Technology
1999	Dr Hiren Gohain	Assam Assam Assam , also, rarely, Assam Valley and formerly the Assam Province , is a northeastern state of India and is one of the most culturally and geographically distinct regions of the country...		Art & Culture
1999	Prof. Ashok Sen	Kolkata Kolkata Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...		Science & Technology
2000	Dr Bhabendra Nath Saikia Bhabendra Nath Saikia Dr. Bhabendra Nath Saikia was a novelist, short story writer and film director from Assam. He had a PhD in Nuclear Physics from the University of London and later taught at Gauhati University. He won many literary awards, including Sahitya Academy , and was also recognised with the Padma...	Assam Assam Assam , also, rarely, Assam Valley and formerly the Assam Province , is a northeastern state of India and is one of the most culturally and geographically distinct regions of the country...		Art & Culture
2000	Prof. J V Narlikar			Science & Technology
2001	Adoor Gopalkrishnan	Trivandrum		Art & Culture
2001	Dr Tej Pal Singh	New Dehli		Science & Technology
2002	Dr Samir Bhattacharya			Science & Technology
2002	Maharaj Kumari Binodini Devi M. K. Binodini Devi Maharaj Kumari Binodini Devi was a Indian writer from Manipur, a Southeast Himalayan state in North-east India and a member of the erstwhile royal family of Manipur. She was notable for bridging the two worlds of ancient royalty and modern art...	Manipur Manipur Manipur is a state in northeastern India, with the city of Imphal as its capital. Manipur is bounded by the Indian states of Nagaland to the north, Mizoram to the south and Assam to the west; it also borders Burma to the east. It covers an area of...		Art & Culture
2003	Dr Prannoy Roy			Art & Culture
2003	Dr Jitendra Nath Goswami	Assam Assam Assam , also, rarely, Assam Valley and formerly the Assam Province , is a northeastern state of India and is one of the most culturally and geographically distinct regions of the country...		Science & Technology
2003	Jahnu Baruah	Assam Assam Assam , also, rarely, Assam Valley and formerly the Assam Province , is a northeastern state of India and is one of the most culturally and geographically distinct regions of the country...	Film Maker	Art & Culture
2004	Dhrubajyoti Mukhopadhyay		Geologist	Science & Technology
2004	Nabaneeta Dev Sen		Distinguished litterateur	Art & Culture
2005				Science & Technology
2005				Art & Culture
2006	Prof Dhirendra Nath Burhagohain	Assam Assam Assam , also, rarely, Assam Valley and formerly the Assam Province , is a northeastern state of India and is one of the most culturally and geographically distinct regions of the country...	Chief Technology Officer, Civil Engineering Network System, Pune	Science & Technology
2006	Hemanta Mishra		Artist	Art & Culture
2007	Prof Maqsood Siddiqi	Kolkata Kolkata Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...	Chief, Cancer Foundation of India, Kolkata	Science & Technology
2007	Aribam Shyam Sharma	Manipur Manipur Manipur is a state in northeastern India, with the city of Imphal as its capital. Manipur is bounded by the Indian states of Nagaland to the north, Mizoram to the south and Assam to the west; it also borders Burma to the east. It covers an area of...	Film Maker	Art & Culture
2008	Bhupendra Nath Goswami	Pune Pune Pune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...	Director, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune	Science & Technology
2008	Rama Kanta Rath	Orissa Orissa Orissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...	Poet Former Chairman, Sahitya Akademi.	Art & Culture

See also

• Kamal Kumari Barooah
  Kamal Kumari Barooah
  Kamal Kumari Barooah was the matriarch of the Khongiya Barooah family of Thengal, Assam. She was born to Mahendranath Mahanta and Swarnalata Mahanta at Borelengi Satra...
  
  
• The Kamal Kumari Foundation
• Siva Prasad Barooah National Award
  Siva Prasad Barooah National Award
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