Abhinaba Banik, receives state’s first National Scholarship in Sculpture

Abhinaba Banik, a class IX student of Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Vivek Nagar Amtali, has been selected for the first time and the only one from Tripura state in the category of visual arts and sculpture in the Cultural Talent Search Scholarship 2021 - 2022 organized by the Center for Cultural Resource and Training - CCRT under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.

Abhinaba Banik is the only student from Tripura selected in this category and probably the first. In the field of sculpture education, in the hands of Abhinaba Banik, chalk artist and teacher of the Government Art College of Tripura, the state's eminent painter Jaydeep Bhattacharya.

Recently on May 30, an announcement by the Government Ministry informed that a total of 536 students from across the country have received CCRT scholarships for the academic year 2021-22 under the Ministry of Culture of the Government of India in Music, Dance, Painting, Sculpture, etc., out of which a total of 41 students have received the scholarship from Tripura, but the only novelty in the category of sculpture is Banik-e has been nominated as outstanding.

The Secretary of Ramakrishna Mission Viveknagar and Principal of Amtali Ramakrishna Mission School Maharaj Swami Shubhakaranandaji, school art guru Gopikananda Chattopadhyay, eminent writer Shyamal Chowdhury and other relatives blessed him with joy at this success.

Abhinaba Banik has earlier successfully represented his science related research on Covid protocol with state level first prize honors at the 108th Indian National Science Congress held at Nagpur and also at the 30th National Children's Science Congress session held at Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

He received India International Student Scientist Award 2020 from Tripura for the first time as a part of VIPNET program under Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, whose commemorative award was presented to him by the then Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath.