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Ekalabya Award goes to Padmini Rout
Asian junior and World under-14 girls’
chess champion Padmini Rout has been
selected to receive the 16th Ekalabya
Award for the year 2008. The award
committee unanimously chose Padmini from
among 11 shortlisted candidates in a
meeting in Bhubaneswar today.
Ekalabya Award was instituted by Indian
Metals Public Charitable Trust (IMPaCT),
the charitable wing of Ferro Alloys
producing company, IMFA Group in 1993.
The annaual award carries a cash prize
of one lakh rupees and a citation.
Besides Woman International Master
Padmini, international woman athlete
Shrabani Nanda and young rower Rohit
Kumar Swain were selected for two
runner-up awards, carrying cash prize of
Rs 10,000 each and citation. Announcing
the names of the award winners IMPact
Trustee Baijayant Panda said the award
would inspire young talents to perform
better in national and international
arena.
Earlier recepents of Ekalaby Award
include athletes Rachita Mistry (Panda),
Anuradha Biswal: cricketers Shiv Sundar
Das, Debasis Mohanty, Sanjay Raul,
Rashmi Ranjan Parida: international
hockey players Dilip Tirkey, Lazrus
Barla, Probodh Tirkey, Ignace Tirkey,
William Xalxo, Gloria Dung Dung,
Subhadra Pradhan: rowers Pravasini
Dwivedy and Mamata Jena. The awards will
be presented at a function
Courtesy :
www.orisports.com
Published on
05th August, 2009
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