Senior journalist Bamapada Tripathy has been honoured with the Utkal Sambadika Ratna Samman at a function organised by the National Journalist Welfare Board (NJWB) to observe the National Press Day here on Wednesday.
The NJWB also felicitated eminent journalists Pritam Singh Bhatia, Achin Chakraborty, Sahana Tripathy, Ashok Pandey, Tanveer Khan and Himanshu Tripathy with Rashtriya Sambadika Gaurav Samman and NALCO GM Ashutosh Rath with Public Relations Samman.
On the occasion, the NJWB provided pension to 32 senior journalists and felicitated journalism students who have topped in the examinations with the Samman named after seven journalists.
The function which was held under the chairmanship NJWB chairman Dipak Malabya was attended by Union Minister Bisweshwar Tudu, Odisha Minister Prafulla Mallik, Chief Secretary SC Mahapatra, Development Commissioner PK Jena and MLA Ananta Narayan Jena.