Amartya Sen turns down West Bengal Government award.

July 26, 2022

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen will not be accepting the Banga Bibhushan award, the highest civilian honour conferred by the West Bengal government,
The Banga Bibhushan was introduced by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in 2011.
It is the higher one among the Banga Samman honours, the other being the Banga Bhushan.
While Amartya Sen have declined the award, another Nobel laureate from the state, Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee — who shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer — is said to have accepted the honour.
Banerjee is among 16 Banga Bibhushan and 20 Banga Bhushan recipients this year.