Eight persons have been selected to get 36th State level Exhibition of Fine Art award by the Odisha lalita Kala Akademi. According to Press release issued by Akademi Secretary Tarakanta Parida, Biranchi Narayan Behera will get the award for traditional art, Ashok Choudhury and Sasmita Biswal will be felicitated for graphic. Smrutikanta Rout will be honoured for sculptor and Bhabani Shankar Das, Chnmayee Behera, Raghunath Sahoo and Sitaram Swain will get the award for paintings.