Background
Biswanath Pattnaik was born on 11 November 1916 in Kumarada, a village of then Ganjam district. His father, Upendra Pattnaik, died when he was a child while his grandfather, Ghanashyam Pattnaik, then looked after him.
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Biswanath Pattnaik
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Biswanath studied in his village school. Later, he traveled to Srikakulam in Andhra Pradesh where he studied up class 8 before dropping out.
Career
At the age of 17, he started his career as an informal teacher at his village school with a monthly salary of seven rupees. lieutenant was there that he was inspired by the Gandhian Sri Gopabandhu Choudhury, and started working as his assistant. Sri Choudhury sent him to Koraput to expand the Khadi movement.
Sri Pattnaik arrived in Kujendri in 1940.
Sri Pattnaik joined the movement for the formation of a separate Utkal state. He started his work in Banabasi Seva Samiti (founded by Sri Gopabandhu Choudhury in 1972) and took up issues like education and upliftment of the poor tribesmen.
The Samiti started running several residential schools for the tribal children, orphanages and old age homes. He made Khadi so popular in Koraput that he was called Koraputia Gandhi.
His fight against untouchability continued.
Later he joined the Quit India movement. He started the Bhoodan movement in the Koraput area which turned out to be a major success. Shri Pattnaik died on 29 May 2010 at Baliguda, Kandhamal district, Odisha.
He was 93.
Achievements
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Sri Pattnaik did not compete for any awards, yet he received the following amongst others: Best Social Worker Award from Bharatiya adimajati sevak sangh, 1995 Justice Rajksishore Das Samman, 1996 Sarala Award, 2002 Rajiv Gandhi Sadvabana Award, 2003 Pradyumna Bala Sammana Kondhamala Citizen Forum Felicitation Award Jamnalal Bajaj Award, 2008 Film maker Ajaya Bharadwaj has started making a documentary film on the work of Biswanath Pattnaik.
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Awards
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Jamnalal Bajaj Award Sri Pattnaik did not compete for any awards, yet he received the following amongst others: Best Social Worker Award from Bharatiya adimajati sevak sangh, 1995 Justice Rajksishore Das Samman, 1996 Sarala Award, 2002 Rajiv Gandhi Sadvabana Award, 2003 Pradyumna Bala Sammana Kondhamala Citizen Forum Felicitation Award Jamnalal Bajaj Award, 2008 Film maker Ajaya Bharadwaj has started making a documentary film on the work of Biswanath Pattnaik.Jamnalal Bajaj Award Sri Pattnaik did not compete for any awards, yet he received the following amongst others: Best Social Worker Award from Bharatiya adimajati sevak sangh, 1995 Justice Rajksishore Das Samman, 1996 Sarala Award, 2002 Rajiv Gandhi Sadvabana Award, 2003 Pradyumna Bala Sammana Kondhamala Citizen Forum Felicitation Award Jamnalal Bajaj Award, 2008 Film maker Ajaya Bharadwaj has started making a documentary film on the work of Biswanath Pattnaik.