Award Winning Essays
In 2007, Dr Pradhan received Indian Express Citizen for Peace Prize from Shyam Benegal for his essays on communal harmony. He has also won First Prize in All-India Inter-bank Hindi Essay Competition for 2007-08, a prize he also won in 2006-07 for his essays on micro-finance and financial inclusion. He also won First Prize in the RBIA Silver Jubilee essay competition on Future of Central Banking conducted by Reserve Bank of India in 2007-08. He was the First Prize winner in RBI Brand Building Competition, 2007 for his bold satirical essay "Dreaming the RBI Brand", which created shock waves in the Reserve Bank fraternity. Earlier he had won Third prize in World Habitat Day Essay Competition 2007 for his essay titled Green & Intelligent Buildings and Urban Infrastructure. During his student days he had won many literary prizes including Upasika Kamaladevi Award for essays on Buddhism, Shatadru prize for short story and Ankur prize for poetry etc. He was Utkal University literary champion during 1993-94.
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