Senior IAS officer and poet Bishnupada Sethi has been conferred with this year’s State-Level Santha Bhimaprabha Samman at a function organised by the Santha Kabi Bhima Bhoi Shitya Parishad at the Sarala Bhawan in Cuttack on Sunday.
The award was conferred on Sethi for his literary creations, especially his captivating poems.
Sethi, a Principal Secretary to the State Government, is an ardent follower of Mahima Dharma, the philosophy which the saint poet preached.
Sethi has published several books of his poetry collections. He has extended help for the development of Bhima Bhoi Samadhipitha Khaliapali in Subarnapur district. His articles on the saint poet and his own poems speak volumes for his versatility as an author.
When Sethi was serving as Higher Education Secretary, he had decided to set up a Chair at the Gangadhar Meher University (GMU), Sambalpur, in the name of Bhima Bhoi to carry out interdisciplinary research in the area of social sciences including literary creations and ‘Dalit’ literature.