Awards & Recognition

Achyuta Samanta Receives National Award For Child Welfare

The life and work of Prof. Samanta has been the subject of a number of films, documentaries, television series, talk shows, advocacy and awareness films, magazines and news items of all leading print and electronic media worldwide. His contribution has been recognised through several prestigious national and international awards. Some of these include:

Achyuta Samanta Receives National Award For Child Welfare

Some of the Awards received by Dr. Samanta

Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Awarded Odisha State Energy Conservation Award (OSECA) 2023
  • Brainfeed Lifetime Achievement Award, 4th Edition of Education and Training Resources & Technology Expo (ET TECH X)
  • 1st ‘Odia Asmita Samman‘ award at the Asmita Odisha Conclave
  • Sports Leadership Award from Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)
  • Awarded Legendary Humanitarian Award from Professor Ganeshi Lal, Hon’ble Governor of Odisha, 2023
  • Awarded Ramachandra Mardaraj Samman 2023
  • Conferred Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Purashkar 2022, Government of India
  • Conferred with “Ananya Samman” for contribution to social work by Zee Media
  • Art of Giving, his initiative has been awarded The MacJannet Prize 2021
  • Awarded Sandipani Maharshi Samman 2020 by Sandipani Vidya Niketan, Gujarat
  • Green Activist Award by Indian Federation of Green Energy
  • Personality of the year 2019 by FICCI Higher Education Awards
  • Golden Gavel by World Academy of Arts and Culture ( WAAC) recognised by UNESCO
  • Gandhi Mandela Peace Award 2019
  • Businessline Changemaker Award 2019 in Social Transformation category
  • NCST Leadership Award 2019 by National Commission for Scheduled Tribes
  • Golden Gabel from World Academy of Arts & Culture (WAAC) 2018
  • National Award for the welfare of the Children in 2017 by Shri Ram Nath Kovind, Hon’ble President of India
  • Kautilya Award by Indian Economic Association (2017)
  • GOPIO International Award 2017, Malaysia
  • Silver Medal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic for outstanding contribution in social sector
  • ISA Award for service to Humanity, the Highest Civilian Award from the Kingdom of Bahrain 2015
  • World of Difference Awards – 2013 (The International Alliance for Women, TIAW, USA)
  • Gusi Peace Prize International, Manila (Asia’s Peace Prize) 2014
  • Qimpro Platinum Standard Award-2011
  • Certificate of Excellence, 2010 (Government of Cambodia)
  • Asia’s Best Social Entrepreneur, World HRD Congress, Singapore 2010
  • Humanitarian Award-2004 (Johannesburg, South Africa)
  • Recognition as Social Entrepreneur, Skoll Foundation – 2007 (one of the 15 best social entrepreneurs)
  • ‘Hall of Fame’ Award from World CSR Congress, 2015
  • Economic Times Award for being in the top 50 successful entrepreneurs in India, 2015
  • NIQR Bajaj Outstanding Quality Man Award 2016
  • Pride of India Award by Youthink International, second largest youth Organization in the world with its chapters in 192 countries
  • Dr. Pinnamaneni and Smt. Seetha Devi Foundation Award – 2014
  • Education Entrepreneur of the Year-2014 from ASSOCHAM
  • Jawaharlal Nehru Award – 2012 (in Indian Science Congress)
  • Mahaveer Award (Bhagwan Mahaveer Foundation) -2012
  • Godfrey Phillips Bravery Award (Social Bravery) -2011
  • ICON of Odisha-2011 (Times of India)
  • Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore Samman-2011
  • Dainik Bhaskar India Pride Award-2011 (for being a Change Agent, Social Development and Equity
  • International Award, Certificate of Excellence 2010 (Muscat, Oman)
  • Swami Vivekananda National Award – 2010 (Government of Karnataka)
  • National Young EDGE Award 2010
  • Gandhi Seva Medal – 2009 (Philanthropy and Charity)
  • Priya Odiya (Most Endeared Personality of Odisha) – 2007 (through a survey by a popular TV Channel)

Doctorates

His contributions in the field of education and educational entrepreneurship have been recognized by over 100 universities in India and abroad, government and non-government organizations. He has been awarded over 51 Honoris Causa Doctorates and Doctorate of Letters. These Universities are as follows:

Dr. A Samanta, Founder, KIIT & KISS receiving the Honorary Doctorate of Letters (D.Litt) at Daffodil International University
  1. OIU, Colombo – November 2002 Honorary PhD
  2. OIU, Colombo – September 2005 DSc.
  3. National University, Cambodia – 2009
  4. Hanseo University, South Korea – 2010
  5. Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha – Central University, Tirupati, India – 2011
  6. National Formosa University, Taiwan- 2012
  7. Daffodil International University, Bangladesh-2014
  8. International University of Kyrgyzstan – 2014
  9. The International School of Medicine, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan-2014
  10. Kainar University, Almaty, Kazakhstan – 2014
  11. Chosun University, South Korea-2014
  12. Hangai University, Mongolia-2014
  13. Soyol Erdem University, Mongolia-2014
  14. Naryn State University, Kyrgyzstan-2014
  15. Jalalabad State University, Kyrgyzstan- 2014
  16. Tabriz University, Iran-2014
  17. Jalal-Abat State University (JASU), Kyrgyzstan-2014
  18. Osh Law Institute, Kyrgyzstan-2014
  19. Modern University of Humanities, Moscow – 2014
  20. Talas State University, Kyrgyzstan – 2015
  21. Issyk-kul State University, Kyrgyzstan – 2015
  22. Issyk-kul Co-operative Institute, Korakoll – 2015
  23. Kyrgyz-Uzbek University – 2015
  24. Tajikistan State National University Dushanbe – 2015 (notified)
  25. Daejeon Institute of Health Science, Daejeon, Korea – 2015 (notified)
  26. Humanitarian & Pedagogy University, Osh (notified)
  27. Osh State University, Osh (notified)
  28. Kyrgyz – Russian Slanik University (notified)
  29. West Kazakhstan Agrarian Technical University (notified)
  30. Poltava University, Ukrain (notified)
  31. Nakhchian State University, Azerbaijan(notified)
  32. Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, Assam
  33. Metropolitan State University, Czech Republic
  34. North Ossetian State University, Vladikavkaz, Russia
  35. Ala-Too International University, Kyrgyzstan – 2017
  36. Nanhua University, Taiwan – 2017
  37. Petersburg Institute of Education, Russia – 2017
  38. World Academy of Arts and Culture ( WAAC)- 2018
  39. Berhampur University – 2018
  40. DY Patil Vidyapeeth Pune – 2018
  41. National Chin-Yi University of Technology (NCUT), Taiwan – 2018
  42. Vitebsk State University, Belarus – 2019
  43. IIS University, Jaipur – 2019
  44. ICFAI Sikkim – 2020
  45. Desh Bhagat University – 2021
  46. Sikkim Professional University – 2021
  47. The Vignan’s Foundation for Science, Technology & Research (Deemed to be University) – 2021
  48. RK University, Rajkot – 2022
  49. Birla Global University, Bhubaneswar -2022
  50. Utkal University, Bhubaneswar – 2022
  51. Mahapurusha Srimanta Sankaradeva Viswavidyalaya, Assam – 2023
  52. Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed-to-be-University), Chennai, Tamil Nadu – 2023
  53. Shree Jagannath Sanskrit University, Puri – 2023
  54. Rural University of Guatemala – 2023
  55. Mayan University, Guatemala – 2023
  56. Huafan University, Taiwan – 2024
  57. Jayoti Vidyapeeth Women’s University, Jaipur – 2024