The award, January 2019
The Rashtriya Bal Puraskar is India's national award for children, administered by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and conferred in two halves: the Bal Shakti Puraskar for individual children, and the Bal Kalyan Puraskar for adults and institutions working for children. In 2019 the ministry received 783 applications and selected twenty-six Bal Shakti Puraskar winners across six categories: innovation, scholastic, sports, art and culture, social service and bravery. Two individuals and three institutions took the Bal Kalyan Puraskar.
Tripathy won in the scholastic category. The Prime Minister's Office record of the interaction with that year's winners states that he has won many accolades for his scholastic abilities at the national and international level, including at the International Junior Science Olympiad, 2016, held at Bali, Indonesia, and that he represented India at the Global Youth Leaders Conference, 2018, in the United States.
What the Junior Science Olympiad is
The International Junior Science Olympiad is the science competition for students under sixteen, and it differs from the subject olympiads in an important way: it is not divided by discipline. A competitor sits examinations spanning physics, chemistry and biology together, including a practical laboratory paper, and must be strong across all three rather than exceptional in one.
National teams are selected through multi-stage domestic rounds, which in India means a filter applied to a very large cohort. Reaching the Indian team at all is the substantive achievement behind a citation of this kind, and the 2016 edition was held in Bali, Indonesia.
Why the state honours children
India is unusual among large countries in maintaining a formal national honour for children, presented annually around Republic Day, with recipients received by the Prime Minister. The categories tell you what the state is choosing to reward: bravery sits alongside scholarship, innovation alongside social service.
The effect is to place a science olympiad result in the same frame as a child who has pulled someone from a river. It is a deliberate levelling, and it means that a scholastic award of this kind carries a national profile that an examination result alone would not. For the winners, the tangible benefit is visibility, and the ceremony is covered by the national press.
The limits of the record
The Prime Minister's Office record is an official document, which makes it reliable on the award and sparing on the person. It gives his state, his category and the two competitions named in his citation. It does not give his age, his school, his district within Odisha, his examination scores or his subject preferences.
That is the normal shape of a government citation, and it leaves the biography thin in exactly the places a reader wants filled. No later coverage was found for this page that adds to it. Where a page of this kind would ordinarily say what happened next, the honest answer is that the record stops with the award.
What is documented, and what is not
Firm: Tripathy is from Odisha; he received the Bal Shakti Puraskar in the scholastic category in 2019; his citation names the International Junior Science Olympiad of 2016 in Bali, Indonesia, and the Global Youth Leaders Conference of 2018 in the United States; twenty-six children received the award that year, from 783 applications.
Not documented: his age or birth year, his school, his exact placing or medal at the Junior Science Olympiad, his district, and anything about his studies or work after January 2019.
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| Ayushman Tripathy | India | Bal Shakti Puraskar 2019, scholastic category | — |
What is documented — and what is not
✓ Documented
- Received the 2019 Bal Shakti Puraskar in the scholastic category
- From Odisha
- Citation names the International Junior Science Olympiad, 2016, Bali
- Citation names the Global Youth Leaders Conference, 2018, United States
? Unverified, disputed or wrong
- Age, birth year and school are not stated in the official record
- No medal or placing at the olympiad is specified
- Nothing documented about him after January 2019
Questions people ask about Ayushman Tripathy
What did Ayushman Tripathy win?
The Bal Shakti Puraskar, part of India's Rashtriya Bal Puraskar, in the scholastic category in January 2019.
What was he cited for?
Accolades at national and international level, specifically the International Junior Science Olympiad of 2016 in Bali, Indonesia, and representing India at the 2018 Global Youth Leaders Conference in the United States.
How old is Ayushman Tripathy?
No source consulted gives his age or birth year. The award is for children.
What is the Bal Shakti Puraskar?
The individual half of India's national child award, administered by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, given across innovation, scholastic, sports, art and culture, social service and bravery.
How many children won in 2019?
Twenty-six received the Bal Shakti Puraskar, selected from 783 applications. Two individuals and three institutions received the Bal Kalyan Puraskar.
Did he medal at the Junior Science Olympiad?
The official record names the olympiad but does not state a medal or placing, so no medal is claimed here.
Where is Ayushman Tripathy now?
Nothing published after the January 2019 ceremony was found in the sources used for this page.
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Sources
- PM interacts with winners of Rashtriya Bal Puraskar 2019 — Prime Minister's Office, India, 2019-01-24
Checked by the Geniuses.club editorial team. Ages are given as of September 2026.
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