Honours and Awards
- National Award for Child Welfare (1987)
- Jamnalal Bajaj Award (1988)
- Utkal Seva Sammaan (1994)
- Tagore Literacy Award (1995)
- Honour by the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the first sitting of the Constituent Assembly (1997)
- Honour by the State Social Welfare Advisory Board (1997)
- Honour by the Rajya Mahila Commission (1997)
- Deshikottama (D.Litt. Honoris Causa) from Viswa-Bharati
- In 1988, she refused to receive the prestigious Jamnalal Bajaj Award from the hands of the Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, because, according to her, Rajiv Gandhi had not done anything to promote Gandhian values.
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