Guwahati:
Six esteemed personalities including Assam’s Purnima Devi Barman were awarded honorary doctorates by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat at Sri Sathya University in Bengaluru, on July 14.
Mohan Bhagwat at the event said, “The signs of India growing by bringing together its knowledge base from the past with the futuristic studies are now visible everywhere. If someone had said 10-12 years ago that India will grow, we would not have taken it seriously.”
Nuclear physicist R Chidambaram and cricketer Sunil Gavaskar were also presented with their doctorates.
As per sources, Bhagwat also presented honorary doctorates to former ISRO chief K Kasturirangan, Indian Hindustani vocalist M Venkatesh Kumar, an eminent environmentalist from Assam Purnima Devi Barman, and C Sreenivas for delivering free healthcare to many.
Purnima Devi Barman is a wildlife biologist from Assam, India. She is known for her conservation work with the greater assistant stork (Leptoptilos dubious), known locally as the Hargila.