Dr. B. C. Roy Award


The Bidhan Chandra Roy Award is an award instituted in 1962 in memory of Bidhan Chandra Roy by the National Medical Commission. It is presented by the President of India in New Delhi every year on July 1, the National Doctors' Day. It is also the highest honour that can be achieved by a doctor in India.
The award is given annually in each of the following categories:
  • Statesmanship of the Highest Order in India.
  • Medical Statesman,
  • Eminent Medical Person,
  • Eminent person in Philosophy,
  • Eminent person in Science
  • Eminent person in Arts.
It was first awarded in 1972 to M.P Mehrey of Sitapur Eye Hospital, Sitapur, by V. V. Giri, the then President of India.

Recipients

1970s

1980s

1992

  • A.N. Chandrasekaran, rheumatologist

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003 - 2004

2005 - 2013

2014

Source:
Eminent Medical Person:
Eminent Medical Teacher:
  • Ravi Kant, Lucknow
  • Ashwani Kumar, New Delhi
  • Rajesh Malhotra, New Delhi
  • Rakesh Yadav, New Delhi
  • P.V.L.N. Murthy, Hyderabad.
Best talents in encouraging the development of specialities in different branches in Medicine:
  • Janak Desai, Ahmedabad
  • Rajesh Upadhyay, New Delhi
  • Binay Karak, Patna
  • Ashok Rajgopal, Gurgaon
  • Davinder Singh Rana, New Delhi.
Outstanding services in the field of Sociomedical Relief:
  • Rama Reddy Karri, Rajamahendravaram ;
  • Jitender B Patel, Ahmedabad;
  • Sudipto Roy, Kolkata.

2015

Source:
Eminent Medical Person:
  • C. Palanivelu, GEM Institute for Gastrointestinal Disease, Coimbatore;
  • Ashok Seth, Fortis Escorts Heart Institute & Research Center, New Delhi.
Eminent Medical Teacher:
  • N. Sanjeeva Reddy, Chennai;
  • C.S. Yadav, New Delhi;
  • A.K. Bisoi, New Delhi;
  • D.J. Borah, Guwahati;
  • Arun Thakur, Patna.
Best talents in encouraging the development of specialities in different branches in Medicine:
  • H.P. Bhalodiya, Ahmedabad;
  • Parimal M Desai, Ahmedabad;
  • Anand Khakhar, Chennai;
  • Ambrish Mittal, New Delhi;
  • Amlesh Seth, New Delhi.
Outstanding service in the field of Socio Medical Relief:
  • A Marthanda Pillai, Thiruvananthapuram;
  • John Ebnezar, Bangalore;
  • A. Arulvisagan, Puducherry.
Aid or Assistance to Research Project:
  • J.B. Sharma, New Delhi.

2016

Source:
Eminent Medical Person:
  • Vipul R. Patel
  • Neelam Mohan, ISB Alumni - AMPH Co 2020
Eminent Person - Literature:
  • Anil Kumar Chaturvedi
Eminent Medical Teacher:
  • Prem Nath Dogra
  • M. Unnikrishnan
  • G. S. Umamaheshwara Rao
  • Ved Prakash Mishra
  • Rajeshwar Dayal
Best Talents in Encouraging the Development of Specialties in Different Branches in Medicines:
  • Sanjay Balwant Kulkarni
  • O. P. Yadava
  • Pawanindra Lal
  • D. Raghunadharao
  • Pradeep Tandon
  • G. Venugopala Rao
Outstanding Service in the field of Socio Medical Relief:
  • T Rajagopal
  • Satchit Balsari
  • S. Geethalakshmi - Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University - Vice Chancellor
  • Devraj Rai
  • Pallarisetti Raghu Ram
  • Karri Rama Reddy, award received in the year 2017 for Service of Socio Medical Relief for the year 2014.
Aid or Assistance to Research Project:
  • Punit Gupta

2017

  • M.L.B. Bhatt, Vice Chancellor, K. G. Medical university, Lucknow under the category of Eminent Medical Teacher.
  • Syed Sanaullah Mohd Tabish, AIIMS, New Delhi
  • Avinash Supe, Seth GSMC, Mumbai
  • Rashmi Kaur, PGI, Chandigarh
  • Amit Singh, Bihar
  • Farheen Zuber Patel, Gujarat
  • Kanu Bhatia, Mumbai
  • S.P. Bhatt, Surat
  • Suman Prasad, AIIMS, New Delhi
  • Satchit Balsari, Boston, USA

2018

Eminent Medical Person:
Outstanding service in the field of socio medical relief
Best talents in encouraging the development of specialties in different branches in Medicine
  • Sanjay Desai