Every year, since 2010, IPTA Raigarh awards a theatre artist the Sharadchandra Vairagkar Memorial Award for Excellence in Theatre. Over the past years, we have been honoured to present the award to the following stalwarts of Indian Theatre: Rajkamal Nayak 2010 Sanjay Upadhyay 2011 Arun Pandey 2012 Jugal Kishore 2012 Seema Biswas 2013 Manav Kaul 2014 Raghubir Yadav 2015 Bansi Kaul 2016 Sitaram Singh 2017 Mirza Masood 2019 2016-01-13