Samanta  Chandra Shekhar  Award by Orissa State Bigyan Academy, Govt. of Odisha for Lifetime  contributions to Life Sciences. 2005.

Awarded Dr.Mopuri Brahmam Memorial Award for Plant Diversity and  Conservation by Orissa Botanical Society, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, 2020.

Awarded Adarsh Vidya Saraswati Rashtriya Puraskar for valuable contribution and noble research  by Global Management Council, Clacier Journal Research Foundation, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, 2021 

Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc) in the field of Plant  Biotechnology and Molecular Biology., 1999.


Fellow, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (FNAAS), ICAR, New Delhi  for contribution in Horticultural Sciences, 2015.

Fellow, Indian Society of Plant Genetic Resources, NBPGR, New Delhi for  the lifetime contribution in conservation & propagation of Plant Genetic  Resources, 2014.