bhubaneswar chief minister naveenpatnaik gave away think odisha leadership awards2013 to individuals and organizations for their contribution to the betterment of the state here on saturday the awards an initiative of the times of india group and teflas an event management company is aimed at promoting excellence in different fields such as industry sports art culture literature and social services odisha has a forward looking growing economy where new frontiers are opening in fields of industry and other sectors we have to rise to the occasion and take development in our stride the last decade was an era of progress and the next decade should be an era of excellence the chief minister said in the individual category trupti das art and culture professor omkar mohanty educationist brahma mishra business leader sudhanshu sahu entertainment srabani nanda sports nirmala topno environment shatrughna pandab literature jagdish pradhan social activist and ramesh abhishek governmentsociety interface received the awards noted linguist debi prasanna patnaik got the lifetime achievement award while filmmaker nila madhab panda received the cultural ambassador of odisha award among the organizations sambalpur university and basundhara received the awards for their work several corporate houses including nalco tata steel ruchi soya industries limited paradeep port trust rourkela steel plant and jindal steel and power limited received award for their contributions in the field of corporate social responsibility csr chief secretary jugal kishore mohapatra inaugurated the think csr forum an interface between corporate government and ngos in the morning session we must emphasis on gross national happiness like bhutan instead of concentrating on gross domestic product gdp then only csr would get eminence said mohapatra panels discussed issues like dream of csr community development through csr initiatives csr strategies on taking quality education to unreached csr practices for sustainable livelihood creating a positive footprint promoting solar power as part of csr initiatives and law and csr among others cmd of nalco ansuman das md of jspl subrat ratho and md of ruchi soya dinesh shahra spoke on the occasion