Eminent art director Asim Basu, sculptor Padmabihusan Raghunath Mohapatra and well-known artist Siba Prasad Panigrahi received this year’s Bipra Charan Mohanty Award at a function held here on Monday. The award has been instituted by the Bipra Charan Mohanty Memorial Foundation Trust formed in the name of the established sculptor.
The trust and the State lalit Kala Academy jointly organised the function to commemorate the 87th birth anniversary of Bipra Charan Mohanty at the Bhanja Kala Mandap. MP Prasanna Patsani and former Minister Amar Prasad Satpathy graced the occasion as the chief guest and the guest of honour. Trust chairperson Rita Mohanty and lalit Kala Academy President Siba Prasad Panigrahi and Secretary Rabi Rath also addressed the meeting. The trust had earlier organised an art competition among the students of the Balasore College of Art & Craft at Baleswar. The meritorious students were awarded at a function in the college by Dredging Corporation of India CMD Capt DK Mohanty.