Bhubaneswar: Odisha Legislative Assembly will felicitate 24 MLAs with the Best Legislator Award for their notable work and performance.
The MLAs will be awarded in three categories–Pandit Nilakantha Samman, Utkalmani Gopabandhu Samman and Utkal Gourab Madhusudan Samman, sources said here Saturday.
A selection committee of the Assembly has selected the 24 MLAs from the 2009 to 2016 for the awards, which will be presented at a special event to be held soon in the presence of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and Speaker Pradip Amat. The award has not been given for the past nine years.
According to the sources, eight MLAs will be awarded under each category. Pandit Nilakantha Samman will be given to Bishnu Charan Das for the year 2009, Arun Kumar Sahoo for 2010, Pravat Kumar Biswal for 2011, Prafulla Majhi for 2012, Amar Prasad Satpathy for 2013, Pramila Mallick for 2014, Ranendra Pratap Swain for 2015 and Ramesh Chandra Chau Patnaik for the year 2016.
Likewise, Utkal Gourab Madhusudan Samman will be given to Surendra Nath Naik (2009), Bimbadhar Kuanr (2010), Nityananda Pradhan (2011), Umesh Chandra Swain (2012), Bikram Keshari Barma (2013), Rajendra Dholakia (2014), Surendranath Pramanik (2015) and Chakradhar Paika (2016).
The Utkalmani Gopabandhu Samman will be conferred to Sanjay Das Burma (2009), Pritiranjan Gharai (2010), Samir Ranjan Dash (2011), Prashant Kumar Muduli (2012), Bijay Kumar Mohanty (2013), Raseswari Panigrahi (2014), Dibya Shankar Mishra (2015) and Pradip Purohit (2016).
State Assembly to award 24 best MLAs
