Vice President of India M. Venkaiah Naidu has conferred Assam Government’s biennial Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi Award for National Integration and National Contribution for the year 2021, on October 03, 2021, to three recipients.
The three awardees are:
- Members of Assam branch of Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust
- German based Assamese litterateur Dr. Nirod Kumar Barooah
- 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 memory of the first Chief Minister of Assam Bharat Ratna Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi.
The award carries five lakh rupees each, a citation, and an angavastram. The Vice President said that Gopinath Bordoloi was a true statesman and we must take inspiration from his works.