Vice President Venkaiah Naidu confers Assam Government’s biennial Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi Award for National Integration and National Contribution on 3 awardees

Vice President Venkaiah Naidu confers Assam Government’s biennial Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi Award for National Integration and National Contribution on 3 awardees

• The Vice President of India Shri M Venkaiah Naidu presented the Assam Government’s ‘Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi Award for National Integration and Contribution’ for the year 2021, on October 03, 2021 to three recipients.
• The three awardees are:
  1. Members of Assam branch of Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust
  2. German based Assamese litterateur Dr. Nirod Kumar Barooah
  3. Members of Shillong Chamber Choir at Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra
• The biennial Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi Award was instituted by the Government of Assam in 1993 in the memory of the first Chief Minister of Assam Bharat Ratna Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi.
• The award is bestowed upon institutions and individuals from diverse fields in honour of their exemplary contribution towards national integration.
• It carries prize money of Rs 5 lakh, a citation and an angavastram.