The Batuk Nandy Memorial awards were started in the year 2011 in memory of the esteemed guitar artist Batuk Nandy. The award ceremony was started by his son Nilanjann Nandy and the awards are presented to eminent personalities in the fields of films, theatre, literature, music and so on. In its third year, the award ceremony took place at Rabindra Okkakura Bhavan on the 20th of July. The awards are all presented by ‘Surbahar’. Usha Uthup, Jagannath Basu, Urmimala Basu, Debaroti Shome, Rajotava Dutta have been some of the recipients of the awards for the past two years.