Reaping Rewards — NCERT Painting Award Feature

A feature titled 'Reaping Rewards' celebrating the NCERT award conferred on Basanta Kumari Samanta, then an arts teacher at DIET Ganjam, Khallikote, for her painting 'Developing Desirable Values Among Primary School Children Through Creative Art.' The article traces her path from joining as a government school art teacher in 1967 to organising solo exhibitions in Bhubaneswar and Sambalpur, and notes two further honours — the 'Kala Gaurab' title from the Ganjam District Union of Working Journalists in 1997 and the 'Silpi Gopal Kanungo Smarakee Samman' in 1998 — that marked her as an active and celebrated figure across Odisha's art and literary circles.