Banga Bibhushan
Appearance
Banga Bibhushan | |
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State Civilian award | |
Awarded for | Services of personalities in various fields |
Sponsored by | Government of West Bengal |
Location | West Bengal |
Reward(s) | ₹200,000 |
First awarded | 2011 |
Highlights | |
Total awarded | 22 |
First winner | Amala Shankar |
Last winner | Ustad Ali Ahmed Hussein Khan |
Banga Bibhushan Samman (Bengali: বঙ্গবিভূষণ) is a title instituted by the West Bengal government to honour the services of personalities in various fields.[1] The Banga Ratna Samman and the Banga Bhushan Samman ("Bengal ornament" বঙ্গ ভূষণ) awards are also granted.
The award was conceived by Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal, on 25 July 2011.[2]
List of awardees
2011
Name | Field |
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Amala Shankar | Dance |
Mahashweta Devi | Literature |
Sandhya Mukhopadhyay | Music (Bengali Modern Songs) |
Supriya Devi | Film (acting) |
Manna Dey | Music (Bengali Modern Songs and Hindi Film Music) |
Amjad Ali Khan | Music (Indian Classical Instrumental) |
Dwijen Mukhopadhyay | Music (Rabindra Sangeet and Bengali Modern Songs) |
Shailen Manna | Sports (Football) |
Haradhan Bandopadhyay | Film (acting) |
2012
Name | Field |
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Suchitra Sen | Film (acting) |
Leslie Claudius | Sports (hockey) |
Jogen Chowdhury | Painting |
Rudraprasad Sengupta | Theatre |
Bibhas Chakraborty | Theatre |
Shaoli Mitra | Theatre |
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay | Literature |
Sanjeev Chattopadhyay | Literature |
Goutam Ghose | Film (Direction) |
Joy Goswami | Literature |
Ranjit Mallick | Film (acting) |
Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty | Music (Hindustani Classical) |
Ustad Ali Ahmed Hussein Khan | Music (Sehnai) |
In May 2012, The Sunday Indian reported that Ravi Shankar had refused the award.[3]
2013
Name | Field |
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Amitabha Chowdhury | Journalist |
B.K. Birla | Industrialist |
Mithun Chakraborty | Film (acting) |
Narayan Debnath | Artist |
Purna Das Baul | Singer |
Rituporno Ghosh | Film Maker |
Sabitri Chatterjee | Actor |
Sandhya Roy | Actor |
Subir Sen | Singer |
Subhaprasanna | Painter |
Sourav Ganguly | Sports |
Thankamani Kutti | Dancer |
2018
The Banga Bibhushan of 2018 was awarded on 21 May, to the following:
Name | Field |
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Asha Bhosle | (singer) |
Binapani Debi | (Mathua Activist) |
Girija Shankar Roy | (academician) |
Suhrid Kumar Bhowmick | (linguist) |
Samaresh Majumder | (writer) |
Subrata Bhattacharya | (footballer) |
Mohammed Habib | (footballer) |
Prosenjit Chatterjee | (actor) |
Shyamal Kumar Sen | (judge) |
See also
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