Kamal Kumari National Award


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. 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.

List of Awardees

YearAwardeeFromProfessionCategoryRef
1991Sobha BrahmaAssamBodo writerArt & Culture
1992C. N. R. RaoKarnatakaSolid State chemistScience & Technology
1992S. P. ThyagarajanTamil NaduMicrobiologistScience & Technology
1992Sankha GhoshWest BengalBengali poetArt & Culture
1993Sarbeswar BuzarbaruahAssamPlasma scientistScience & Technology
1993Nilmani PhookanAssamAssamese poetArt & Culture
1994Dilip Kumar ChoudhuryAssamPhysicistScience & Technology
1994Sisir Kumar DasWest BengalBengali writerArt & Culture
1995Indira GoswamiAssamAssamese WriterArt & Culture
1995T. S. R. Prasada RaoAndhra PradeshMolecular catalysisScience & Technology
1996Amita MalikNew DelhiMedia criticArt & Culture
1996Lakshmidhar SatpathyBhubaneswarNuclear physicistScience & Technology
1997Achyut LahkarAssamTheatre personalityArt & Culture
1997Raghunath Anant MashelkarGoaFormer Director General, CSIRScience & Technology
1998Nabakanta BaruaAssamAssamese writerArt & Culture
1998Vibha DhawanNew DelhiBiotechnologistScience & Technology
1999Hiren GohainAssamSocial scientistArt & Culture
1999Ashoke SenKolkataTheoretical physicistScience & Technology
2000Bhabendra Nath SaikiaAssamAssamese writerArt & Culture
2000Jayant NarlikarMaharashtraAstrophysicistScience & Technology
2001Adoor GopalakrishnanKeralaFilmmakerArt & Culture
2001Tej P. SinghNew DelhiBiophysicistScience & Technology
2002Samir BhattacharyaWest BengalBiotechnologistScience & Technology
2002Maharaj Kumari Binodini DeviManipurManipuri writerArt & Culture
2003Prannoy RoyWest BengalPsephologistArt & Culture
2003Jitendra Nath GoswamiAssamAstrophysicistScience & Technology
2003Jahnu BaruahAssamFilm MakerArt & Culture
2004Dhrubajyoti MukhopadhyayWest BengalGeologistScience & Technology
2004Nabaneeta Dev SenWest BengalWriter and academicArt & Culture
2005Joyanti ChutiaAssamPhysicistScience & Technology
2005Kanaksen DekaAssamAssamese writerArt & Culture
2006Dhirendra Nath BurhagohainAssamCivil EngineerScience & Technology
2006Hemanta MishraNepalWriterArt & Culture
2007Maqsood SiddiqiKolkataChief, Cancer Foundation of India
Kolkata
Science & Technology
2007Aribam Syam SharmaManipurFilmmakerArt & Culture
2008Bhupendra Nath GoswamiPuneFormer Director
Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
Science & Technology
2008Ramakanta RathOrissaPoet
Former Chairman, Sahitya Akademi.
Art & Culture
2009Roddam NarasimhaKarnatakaAerospace scientist
Indian Institute of Science
Science & Technology
2009Parveen SultanaAssamClassical singerArt & Culture
2010Ramesh C. DekaAssamOtorhynolaryngologist
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Science & Technology
2010Amaresh DuttaAssamProfessor
Guwahati University
Art & Culture
2011Shri Krishna JoshiUttarakhandPhysicist
IIT Roorkee
Art & Culture
2011Heisnam KanhailalManipurTheatre personality
Founder-Director of Kalakshetra Manipur
Art & Culture
2016Dhiraj BoraGandhinagarProfessor
Institute for Plasma Research
Science & Technology
2016Aisharjya P. KonwarAssamPainterArt & Culture
2016Pushpa BhuyanAssamDancerArt & Culture