ITC SRA is proud to announce that our revered Guru, sarod maestro Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta has been conferred the prestigious Padma Bhushan award for 2012. The award was given to him at a glittering ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan on March 26th, by the President of India, Smt Pratibha Patil. 

As a part of the ongoing commemoration of the 150th Birth Anniversary of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, the Sangeet Natak Akademi has instituted a one-time honour of Tagore Samman to be awarded to 100 personalities of the age of 75 years and above who had made significant contribution in the field of performing arts. In December 2011, they selected 50 eminent personalities in the field of performing arts for the Tagore Akademi Ratna and 50 eminent personalities for the Tagore Akademi Puraskar. We are proud to announce that, Pandit Buddhadev Dasgupta has been cited for the Tagore Akademi Ratna for 2011.

Pandit Arun Bhaduri has been awarded 2 awards in 2011. The first , Murshidabad Zilla Ratna was conferred on him on September 26, 2011 and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Salt Lake Cultural Association on December 10, 2011.