# Dr. B. C. Roy Award

The Bidhan Chandra Roy Award is an award instituted in 1962 in memory of Dr. B. C. Roy by the Medical Council of India. It is presented by the President of India in New Delhi every year on July 1, 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 1973 to Sandip Mukerjee, FRCS, of Willingdon Hospital (now Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital), New Delhi, by V. V. Giri, the then President of India.

## Recipients
### 1970s

* Sandip Mukharji (1973)
* Nagarur Gopinath (1978)
* P. S. R. K. Haranath (1979)
* Vikram Marwah (1979)

### 1980s

* M.N. Ghosh (1980)
* J G Jolly (1981)
* S. P. Gupta M.D., FAMS (1983)
* Om Dutt Gulati (1981)
* M. M. S. Ahuja (1982)
* Perugu Siva Reddy (1982)
* Prabhu Dayal Nigam (1983)
* Prem Nath Wahi (1984)
* Dr. M. Khalilullah (1984), Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri recipient
* Jagjit Singh Chopra (1986)
* Sunkara Balaparameswara Rao
* Atluri Sriman Narayana (1989)
* Dinesh K. Bhargava (1989)

### 1993

* Kirpal Singh Chugh
* Pinnamaneni Narasimharao, Vijayawada, A.P

### 1994

* M.L. Kulkarni, Pediatrician and Geneticist
* V. S. Natarajan - Geriatric physician
* Daljit Singh, Ophthalmologist
* P.Hanumantha Rao, Pediatrician ,Rehab Psychiologist
* Rattan Lal Mittal, Orthopedic surgeon

### 1995

* P. V. Chalapathi Rao, General Surgeon
* Sivapatham Vittal, Surgical endocrinologist

### 1996

* Wilfred de Souza
* Mathew Samuel Kalarickal

### 1997

* G. B. Parulkar
* N. A. Jadhav, Professor and Head of the Department of Medicine Mysore Medical College, Mysuru

### 1998

* Arjunan Rajasekaran, Urologist and Padma Shri recipient
* Shashanka Mohan Bose , General Surgeon, Chandigarh
* S. Kantha, Former First Vice Chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences

### 1999

* Belle Monappa Hegde
* K.A. Ashok Pai
* Upendra Kaul
* B. C. Das
* Farooq Abdullah
* Shivadeo S. Bapat, Urologist, Pune

### 2000

* S.Arulrhaj - Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, India.
* Manju Gita Mishra, Patna, Bihar, India.
* Shashanka Mohan Bose, General Surgeon , Chandigarh

### 2001

* I. Sathyamurthy
* MayilVahanan Natarajan
* S. K. Sama

### 2002

* Nilima Arun Kshirsagar
* V. V. Radhakrishnan, S. P. Agarwal, C. P. Thakur, S. K. Sharma, G. Venkataswamy, Govind Swarup, Gourie Devi, T. R. Anantharaman, and Obaid Siddiqi
* K. K. Talwar, Mukkai Kesavan Lalitha, Jai Dev Wig, Rakesh Tandon and C. V. Bhirmanandham
* Abraham G. Thomas, Ashok Panagariya, and Saroj Chooramani Gopal
* Sanjiv Malik and A. K. Kesanna
* N. K. Venkataramana
* Narayana Panicker Kochupillai
* Laxmi Chand Gupta

### 2003 - 2004

* Purshotam Lal
* Vinay Kumar Kapoor
* V. K. Puri
* M. C. Pant
* Shally Awasthi
* T. V. Devarajan
* Sunil Pradhan

### 2005 - 2013

* Amrinder Jit Kanwar
* V. Mohan, Naresh Trehan, K. K. Aggarwal, Ajay Kumar, Anoop Misra and Lalit Kumar, S. M. Balaji, N. K. Pandey
* Yogesh Kumar Chawla, Rayapu Ramesh Babu, P. K. Bilwani and Prakash B. Behere
* Amit Banerjee
* P. Varalakshmi, R. K. Dhiman and S. R. Mittal
* Anupam Sachdeva, Alka Kriplani, A. K. Mahapatra, Drupad Nautamlal Chhatrapati, and Ganesh Gopalakrishnan
* Nikhil C. Munshi Archived 2021-05-13 at the Wayback Machine,
* Tejas Patel
* Nikhil Tandon
* Kodaganur S. Gopinath
* Dr. H. Sudarshan Ballal (2010), Nephrologist, Director & Chairman of Manipal Hospitals Group
* Milind Vasant Kirtane
* Mahesh Verma
* Kumar L. Pradhan [ 47 ] Eminent personality & Senior Scientist in field of Sericulture & recipient of numerous awards and also awarded honorary doctorate by Government of India
* Sanjeev Bagai
* Gurpreet Singh Wander
* C. V. Harinarayan,- Sakra World Hospital
* Moti Lal Singh M.S. FRCS (London) FRCS (Edin) - Patna

### 2014

Source:
Eminent Medical Person:
* Anand B. R., Former Chief Medical Officer, Indian Railways, Mysore.
* Arvind Kumar, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi;
* Randeep Guleria, AIIMS, New Delhi.
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 (AP);
* 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
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 (Rajahmundry), 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 (Teaching Category)
* 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

### 2018

Eminent Medical Person:
* H. S. Shashidhar (Medical Director, Manasa group of hospitals Karnataka)
* B. K. Misra - Chairman of Neurosurgery, Hinduja Hospitals
Outstanding service in the field of socio medical relief
* P Raghu. Ram
* H. R. Surendra, MBBS, MS (ophthalmology)
* Kirit Premjibhai Solanki, MBBS , MS (General Surgery), FICS. Ex Professor of Surgery V S Hospital Ahmedabad (He is currently 2nd term Member of Parliament from Ahmedabad West constituency Gujarat)
Best talents in encouraging the development of specialties in different branches in Medicine
* Sanjay Desai