Teachers' Day
He received the Banerjee Prize from Lucknow University in 1952 for the best research work. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of Padma Shri in 1971. Indian Mathematical Society placed the Distinguished Service Award on him in 1982 and the Jawaharlal Nehru Rashtriya Yuwa Kendra selected him for the Teachers' Day Award, "Shikha Shiromani Alankaran" in 1994. On 5 May 1995, Banares Hindu University honoured him as the chief guest of their Teachers' Day functions.