Agartala, Jan 21, 2025, TRIPURA TIMES Desk

Agartala, Jan 21: On the occasion of Tripura Statehood Day, the state government honoured late Sushanta Kumar Chaudhuri with prestigious ‘Tripura Bibhusan Samman’ posthumously.

The state government also conferred State Civil Awards to four other persons: Pandit Subal Biswas (Tripura Bhusan Samman), Jahar Banerjee (Sachin Dev Barman Smriti Rajya Samman), Jyotsna Akhtar (Maharani Kanchanprava Devi Smriti Rajya Samman) and Smita Dutta Choudhury (State Award for Scientific and Environmental Activities.

During the state-level celebration of Statehood Day, the State government gave several other awards—Good Citizen Award (Late Chiranjit Dey Posthumously), Best Start Up Entrepreneur  Award (Ripan Das), Best Entrepreneur  Award in Agriculture (Kamal Debbarma), Best Entrepreneur  Award in Fisheries (Sricharan Das), Best Entrepreneur  Award in Animal Husbandry (Piyanki Deb Sharma), Best Entrepreneur  Award in Village Industry like Handloom, Handicrafts/ Bee Keeping (Pinku Kumar Nath), Best Entrepreneur  Award as Industrial Enterprise (Bimal Singha), Best Mobile App Award (IT Department for PDMS), Best Cooperative Society Award (Takarjala LAMPS Ltd) and Best Academician Award (Sushanta Chakraborty).

The awards were handed over to the recipients in the presence of Chief Minister Dr. Manik Saha, Tourism minister Sushanta Chowdhury, Industries and Commerce minister Santana Chakma, Cooperation minister Shukla Charan Noatia, Sports minister Tinku Roy, Chief Secretary J.K. Sinha and DGP Amitabh Ranjan.