DR. BIJAY KETAN PATNAIK

DR. BIJAY KETAN PATNAIK

          BIJAY KETAN PATNAIK WASBORN IN VILLAGE MUKUNDAPRASAD IN KHORDA DISTRICT OF ODISHA. HE STUDIED IN BUXI JAGABANDHU BIJYADHAR HIGH SCHOOL AND LATTER AT PRANANATH COLLEGE IN KHORDA. HE GRADUATED FROM BJB COLLEGE, BHUBANEWAR AND DID HIS MASTER’S IN PHYSICS FROM UTKAL UNIVERSITY, VANIVIHAR, BHUBANESWAR DURING 1971. HE WORKED FOR A SHORT TIME IN THE UTKAL UNIVERSITY COMPUTER CENTER BEFORE JOINING PRANNATH COLLEGE, KHORDA AS A LECTURER IN PHYSICS.

          IN 1975 HE WAS SELECTED FOR THE INDIAN FOREST SERVICE AND WAS TRAINED AT THE INDIAN FOREST COLLEGE NOW RE-CHRISTENED INDRA GANDHI NATIONAL FOREST ACADEMY IN DEHRADUN. HE WAS ALLOTTED ODISHA CARDRE WHERE HE HAS WORKED IN VARYING ASSIGNMENTS ALL HIS WORKING LIFE, WHICH SPANNED MORE THAN 32YEARS. SHRI PATNAIK WAS INVOLVED IN ODISHA SOCIAL FORESTRY PRORAMME SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN 1984 AND CONTINUED TILL 1987 IN TWO DIFFRENT CAPACITIES FROM 2001 TO 2004. SHRI PATTNAIK WAS HOLDING THE POST OF SPECIAL SEVRETARY IN FOREST AND ENVIRONMENT DEPTT. GOVT. OF ODISHA. DURING THAT PERIOD HE WAS ALSO HOLDING THE POST OF FIRST CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF STATE MEDICINAL PLANTS BOARD. BETWEEN 2006TO 2008 HE WAS AGAIN POSTED IN THE GOVERNMENT AS DIRECTOR ENVIRONMENT CUM SPECIAL SECRETARY. SHRI PATNAIK ALSO WORKED AS CHAIRMAN CUM MD ODISHA FOREST DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LIMITED. HE SUPERANNUATED IN SEPTEMBER 2009 AS PRINCIPAL CHIEF CONSERVATOR OF FOREST(WILDLIFE) AND CHIEF WILDLIFE WARDEN ODISHA.

          FOR SOMEONE HOLDING DOWN A FULL-TIME JOB, PATNAIK HAS BEEN TRULY PROLIFIC BOTH IN ODIA AND ENGLISH ON ISSUES OF FOREST, WILDLIFE, ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT. HE WAS A PROLIFIC CONTRIBUTOR TOTHE STATESMAN. THE TELEGRAPH, SOCIAL WELFARE, WASTELAND NEWS YOJANA, KURUKSHETRA, INDIAN FORESTER AND IN SUCH COMPENDIUMS AS “WOMEN IN INDIA”(2000) AND ‘REFERENCE ODISHA'(2005). IN ODIA, HE HAS PUBLISHED FIVE COLLECTIONS OF ESSAYS ON FOREST AND ENVIRONMENT, A COUPLE OF BOOKS OF POEMS, ONE BOOK ON MEDICINAL PLANTS, THREE BOOKS ON WILDLIFE FOR CHILDREN, ASIDE FROM A FEW BOOKS FOR ADULTS AND SEMI-LITERATES. HIS MEMO ON FOREST LIFE TITLED “ARANYA YATRI’ WAS RELEASED SOMETIMES BACK TO MUCH CRITICAL ACCIAIM, WHICH GOT PRESTIGIOUS ODISHA SAHITYA ACADEMY AWARD, DURING 2009.

          HE  HAS ALSO AUTHORED A BOOK IN ENGLISH TITLED ‘FOREST VOICES AN INSIDER’S INSIGHT ON FOREST WILDLIFE AND ECOLOGY OF ODISHA’ AND EDITED FEW BOOKS LIKE ‘ECO TOURISM IN SANCTUARIES OF ODISHA’ “WILDLIFE CENSUS IN ODISHA”. IN 2018 DR. PATNAIK HAS CO-AUTHORED A BOOK “CHILIKA-THE HERITAGE OF ODISHA”.

          SHRI PATNAIK WORKED AS CHIEF EDITOR, “VIGYAN DIANTA” A POPULAR MONTHLY SCIENCE MAGAZINE PUBLISHED BY OBA. HE HAS ALSO BEEN NOMINATED AS CHAIRMAN, STATE ADVISORY COMMITTE OF WORLD WIDE FUND-INDIA (ODISHA CHAPTER). RECENTLY SHRI PATNAIK WAS AWARDED PH.D DEGREE IN BOTANY FROM UTKAL UNIVERSITY ON “BIODIVERSITY OF MEDICINAL PLANTS IN KBK DISTRICTS OF ODISHA”.  SHRI PATNAIK ALSO HOLD THE POST OF CHAIRMAN, STATE ENVIRONMENT IMPACT ASSESSMENT AUTHORITY AND STATE EXPERT APPRAISAL COMMITTEE ODISHA. 

• BOOKS WRITTEN BY SHRI PATNAIK ON ENVIRONMENT:

1. PARIBESH PARIKRAMA(1997)
2. JUNGLE, PARIBESH ‘O’ MANAB JEEBAN(2000)
3. PRAKRUTI ‘O’ PARIBESH (2006)
4. ODISHARE PRAKRUTI PARYATAN (2011)
5. PARIBESH PARISANSTHA ‘O’ PARICHITI (2014)
6. ODISHAR ARANYARE (TR. FROM IN THE WILDS OF ORISSA BY NEELAMANI SENAPATI)
7. PARIBESH PANCHAMRUTA (2018)

• ASSOCIATIONS WITH ACADEMIC INSTITUTION AND PROFESSIONAL BODIES:

1. LIFE MEMBER AND ADVISOR “ODISHA ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY”
2. LIFE MEMBER IN NATURE AND CONSERVATIONSOCIETY OF ODISHA”
3. LIFE MEMBER AND PATRON IN “ORISSABIGYAN ACADEMY”
4. LIFE MEMBER OF ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF COLLEGE OF INDIA ALUMINI ASSOCIATION, HYDREABAD.
5. PRESENTLY MEMBER OF STATE BOARD OF WILDLIFE, ODISHA.

• SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTS, AWARDS RECEIVED :

1. BEST CHILDREN LITERATURE AWARD FROM “SISOO SAHITYA SAMITI”, GOVT. OF ODISHA(1976)
2. MAHESH PRASAD PUROHIT AWARDS FOR POPULARIZATION OF PLANT SCIENCE IN ODIYA-2007 (GIVEN BY ODISHA BOTANICAL SOCIETY).
3. BEST COLUMNIST AWARD BY “SAMBAD KALIKA”. A LEADING DAILY NEWS PAPER OF ODISHA-2010
4. ODISHA SAHITYA ACADEMY AWARD 2009. MEMOIR ON FOREST LIFE.
5. BHARAT JYOTI AWARD-2012 BY INDIAN INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY, NEW DELHI.
6. KHORDA GAURAB SAMMAN-2014.
7. DR. B.C.PANDA, ENVIRONMENT AND SCIENCE COMMUNICATION AWARD-2015GIVEN BY ODISHA ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY.
8. LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD BY ALL INDIA PEOPLE’S SCIENCE AND NYSER(BHUBANESWAR)-2018

OTHER PUBLICATIONS IN ODIA

FOR CHILDREN

1)JANTRAPATI

2) UDI UDI JAE ‘K’

3) AAMA PAKSHI RAAIJA

4) JEEB JAGATOR AJAB KATHA

5) HAATI PAIN HAATATIE

6) AMA BADI BAGICHAR AUSADHIYA BRUKSHYA, LATA,GULMA

7)AMA CHAARIPATA SAAP(TRANSLATION BY NBT)

8) TODA O THAR(TRANSLATION BY NBT)

9) BHITTARNANIKA

POEM ODIA

1) CHHAMUNKA AKHI LUHA

2) NAI PARI JHIA

3) UDABASTU ARANYA YATRI(WON SAHITYA ACADEMY AWARD ON TRAVELLUGUE-2009

FOR NEOLITERATES

1) CHAANLA ACHHI JAALA NAHIM

2)CHAAL BANAKU JIBA

3) AASA GACHHA LAGAIBA

4) BRUKSHYU HIN JIBAN