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Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Odissi Dance
The Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Odissi Dance was started back in 1966 and the first recipient of the award was Kelucharan Mohapatra. In 2017, Sujata Mohapatra was awarded this award.

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Year Dancers of Odissi Dance Year Dancers of Odissi Dance
2009 Geeta Mahalik 1995 Raghunath Dutta
2008 Ramani Ranjan Jena 1994 Kumkum Mohanty
2007 Ranjana Gauhar 1992 D. N. Pattnaik
2006 Surendra Nath Jena 1987 Sonal Mansingh
2005 Durga Charan Ranbir 1986 Priyambada Mohanty Hejmadi
2004 Durllav Chandra Singh 1985 Mayadhar Raut
2003 Hare Krishna Behera 1977 Deba Prasad Das
2002 Kiran Segal 1976 Sanjukta Panigrahi (Joint Award with Raghunath Panigrahi for Odissi music)
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2000		 Madhavi Mudgal, Minati Mishra 1970 Pankaj Charan Das
1997 Gangadhar Pradhan 1966 Kelucharan Mohapatra



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