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  Purnima bags Biju Patnaik Sportsperson of Year Award
29 Aug 2016 BHUBANESWAR
 

Controversy and protests made no difference as the State Government conferred the Biju Patnaik Sports Award for the year 2015 in a special function here Jayadev Bhawan today. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik presented the award in four categories. He also felicitated six Odisha athletes who represented the country in the recent Rio Olympic Games.

Woman heptathlete Purnima Hembram bagged the Biju Patnaik Sports Award as the Sportsperson of the Year, which carried a cheque of Rs 2 lakh and citation. The award for `Excellence in Coaching’ was jointly conferred on P Dharma Rao (weightlifting) and Chitrasen Patra (football), who became richer by Rs 1 lakh each.
 

Odisha Cricket Association secretary Asirbad Behera received the newly introduced award for `Best Contribution to Promotion of Sports and Games`, while the award for `Excellence in Sports Journalism’ went to Tanmay Das. The duo was given Rs 50,000 each. The award for `Lifetime Achievement in Promotion of Sports & Games’ was skipped for the year as the Sports Department found no deserving candidate for the purpose.

The six Olympians _ women hockey players Deep Grace Ekka, Namita Toppo, Lilima Minz, Sunita Lakra and women sprinters Dutee Chand and Srabani Nanda _ were also felicitated on the occasion with cash incentives of Rs 5 lakh each. Dutee’s coach Nagapuri Ramesh and Srabani’s coach Tarun Kumar Saha were also felicitated with a purse of Rs 1 lakh each. In the absence of Ramesh, Dutee received the cheque on his behalf.

Promising girl Pratyasha Ray, who recently became the first swimmer from Odisha to win a gold medal in National championship, was rewarded with a cash incentive of Rs 1.70 lakh. Buju Patnaik bravery and youth awards were also given away on the occasion.

Sports Minister Sudarm Marndi, Handloom & Textile Minister Snehangini Chhuria, Development Commissioner R Balakrishnan and Sports Secretary Saswat Mishra were present in the award function, which coincided with National Sports Day.

Earlier, fingers were pointed pointed at the decision of the Sports Department for choosing Asirbad Behera and Tanmay Das for the Biju Patnaik Award. Demands were made by people and organizations to exclude the two controversial persons from the list of awardees. Odisha Vikash Parishad staged demonstration against the duo in front of Ram Mandir here on August 26, the report of which was published in leading daily `Dharitri’.

ROLL OF HONOUR:

LIFE-TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: 2001: Golak Smal (Football), 2002: Arupananda Routray (Basketball), 2003: Nanda Krushna Das (Posthomously, Athletics), 2004: Sanat Kumar Mishra (Badminton), 2005: Minati Mohapatra (Cycling), 2006: Debebdra Prasad Singh (Football), 2007: Usharani Mishra Lesslie (Athletics), 2008: Hemant Kumar Patel (Athletics), 2009: Dr Bibekananda Tripathy (Athletics), 2010: Rachita Mistry (Athletics), 2013: Anuradha Biswal (Athletics), 2014: Ashok Kumar Sahu (Basketball).

SPORTSPERSON OF THE YEAR AWARD: 2001: Sahebani Oram (Athletics), 2002: Anuradha Biswal (Athletics), 2003: Dilip Kumar Tirkey (Hockey), 2004: Ignace Tirkey (Hockey), 2005: Sradhanjali Samantaray (Football), 2006: Jyoti Sunita Kullu (Hockey), 2007: Padmini Rout (Chess), 2008: Srabani Nanda (Athletics), 2009: Prabodh Tirkey (Hockey), 2010: Pratima Puhana (Rowing), 2011: Katula Ravi Kumar (Weightlifting), 2012: Minati Sethi (Weightlifting), 2013: Debasish Das (Chess), 2014: Birendra Lakra (Hockey), 2015: Purnima Hembram.

OUTSTANDING COACH AWARD: 2001: Kamal Ganguly (Cricket), 2002: Sylvester Toppo (Hockey), 2003: Subash Chandra Dasmohapatra (Athletics) and Kishore Mania (Cricket); 2004: Panchanan Gantayat (Athletics), 2005: Arun Kumar Das (Athletics), 2006: Bijay Kumar Kanungo (Football) and Amulyananda Bihari (Hockey); 2007: Chitta Ranjan Mohapatra (Athletics), 2008: Nila Madhab Deo (Athletics), 2009: Kalu Charan Choudhury (Hockey), 2010: Ashok Kumar Mishra (Gymnastics), 2011: Gangadhar Behera (Football), 2013: Jose Jacob (Rowing), 2014: Nanda Kishore Patnaik (Football); 2015: P Dharma Rao, Chitrasen Patra.

OUTSTANDING SPORTS JOURNALIST AWARD: 2002: Sanatan Pani (New Indian Express), 2003: Sambit Mohapatra (Freelance) and Samikshya Patnaik (OTV); 2004: Himanshu Patimishra (Sambad), 2005: Susant Kumar Mohanty (Samaj), 2006: Suresh Swain (Dharitri), 2007: Sanjib Biswal (Dharitri), 2008: Debi Prasanna Mohanty (Samaj), 2009: D Niranjan Reddy (OTV) and Gyana Ranjan Mishra (Sambad); 2010: Tapan Kumar Swain (Dharitri), 2011: Debasis Sundaray (Sambad), 2012: Sarbeswar Mohanty (Samaya), 2013: Umakant Mishra (ETV), 2014: Satish Sharma (Sambad); 2015: Tanmay Das.

AWARD FPR BEST CONTRIBUTION TO PROMOTION OF SPORTS & GAMES: 2015: Asirbad Behera.
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TOP: Recipients of Biju Patnaik Sports, Bravery and Youth Awards with Chief Minister and other guests in Bhubaneswar on August 29, 2016.

RIGHT: Clipping of the report published in `Dharitri’ on protests against selecting Asirbad Behera and Tanmay Das for the Biju Patnaik Sports Award.

 
 
   
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