LOKAPRIYA GOPINATH BORDOLOI AWARD FOR NATIONAL INTEGRATION AND NATIONAL CONTRIBUTION

Oct. 4, 2021

Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu has conferred Assam Government’s biennial Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi Award for National Integration and National Contribution at a special function in Guwahati.

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  • The awardees are Assam branch of Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust, German based Assamese litterateur Dr. Nirod Kumar Barooah and Shillong Chamber Choir at Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra.

  • The award carries five lakh rupees each, a citation and an angavastram.

  • The Gopinath Bordoloi Award is named after the first chief minister of Assam after independence and  He was a freedom fighter. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1999 posthumously.

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