Academic Awards and Recognitions

• National Stock Exchange (NSE) Award  (With Cash Prize of Rs 50,000) for Best Ph.D. Thesis in Financial Economics.
• Honorable Mention for poster presentation in “Statistical Methods in Finance 2016” conference jointly hosted by Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI), and Indian Statistical Institute – Chennai, and held at CMI Chennai, India, during December 18-22, 2016. 
• Outstanding Paper Award (With Cash Prize of Rs 10,000) for a paper presentation out of M.Phil. Thesis at 10th UTI Capital Markets Conference, Indian Institute of Capital Markets (now merged with National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM), Mumbai.
• Recipient of MHRD, Govt. of India, Doctoral Research Scholarship to pursue full-time Ph.D. at IIT-Kharagpur.
• UGC-NET in Economics.
• Cash Award for outstanding contribution in research and teaching at Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, March 2009. 
• Best Research Paper Award, (with a cash prize of Rs 5,000), Third National Conference on Indian Capital Market: Emerging Issues organized by IBS Gurgaon with AIMS, March 6-7, 2009.
• Best Research Paper Award, (with a cash prize of Rs 5,000), Second National Conference on Indian Capital Market: Emerging Issues organized by IBS Gurgaon with AIMS, Feb 27-28, 2008
• University Merit Scholarship during MA and M.Phil. program at University of Hyderabad.
• Rank holder (1) in all India admission entrance test for M.Phil. in Economics conducted by University of Hyderabad, Central University.
• Rank holder (4) in M.A. Economics.
• Rank holder (1) in all India admission entrance test for M.A. in Economics conducted by University of Hyderabad, Central University.
• Rank holder (2) with Distinction in B.A (Hons.) in Economics among all the colleges affiliated to Sambalpur University.