Ripusudan Prasad to get Rashtriya Gaurav Award

MUZAFFARPUR: Former proctor and philosophy department head of B R Ambedkar Bihar University, Ripusudan Prasad Shrivastava, has been selected for "Rashtriya Gaurav Award" by a noted voluntary organisation of New Delhi, India International Friendship Society for his contribution in the field of education.
The prestigious award would be presented to him at the annual function of the organisation to be held on October 9 at Kolkata, according to a letter received by him from the organisation''s secretary general Gurmeet Singh.The occasion would coincide with a national seminar on "economic growth and national integration".
Singh has claimed that the organisation has already honoured with this award personalities like Mother Teresa, B D Jatti, M Fatima Devi, Justice P N Bhagwati, K B N Singh, Bhishma Narain Singh, G V G Krishnamoorthy, Vijay Mallya besides film artists Sunil Dutt, Dev Anand, Pran, Shammi Kapoor, Rajendra Kumar, Rajesh Khanna, S P Balasubramaniam, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and Sunil Gavaskar besides several other eminent personalities.