The Siva Prasad Barooah National Award is an Indian award given to individuals and groups in

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for outstanding contribution to journalism, to promote news media excellence. It was instituted by the Kamal Kumari Foundation in 1999 in memory of Siva Prasad Barooah, the renowned tea-planter, philanthropist, politician, humanist and also the publisher of ''Batori'', the first Assamese daily newspaper in Assam. He belongs to the famous Khongiya Barooah family of Thengal,

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

. The first award went to

The Assam Tribune ''The Assam Tribune'' is an Indian English daily newspaper published from Guwahati and Dibrugarh, Assam. With over 700,000 copies of current circulation and a readership of over 3 million, it is the highest circulated English daily in northeast ...

. The award carries a cash award of , a trophy, a ''Chadar'' and a citation.

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{{Indian journalism awards Assamese-language mass media Awards established in 1999 Indian awards Indian journalism awards 1999 establishments in India

List of Awardees

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