• Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry, 2017 for ‘Jahalak Diary’, an anthology of poems in Maithili
  • Sir Ganganath Jha Memorial Award, 2017 for contributions to Maithili Literature.
  • Suniti Kumar Chatterji National Lectureship for 2016 from by the Asiatic Society, Kolkata.
  • Jyotirishwar Sanman 2016 for life-time contribution to Maithili theatre by Mailorang.
  • Kalaignar Porkizhi Award, 2014 by BAPASI (Book-Sellers & Publishers’ Association of South India), organizers of Chennai Book Fair under “Other Indian Languages and Literature” category.
  • Keertinarayan Mishra Award (Chetana Samiti) for his play ‘No entry: Maa Pravisha’, 2009; by the Chief Minister of Bihar on 31st October, 2009
  • Mithila Vibhuti Sanman 2007
  • Member of Indian delegation in Paris and Chicago for establishment of Vivekananda Chair and Inauguration of Tagore’s Original Painting Exhibition in February 2012
  • Member of Writers’ Delegation: Lectures on Translation at the London Book Fair, 2009
  • SAARC Delegation to Kathmandu for South Asian University Meeting, Nepal, 2009
  • Leader of Indian Delegation of Writers, China (To Beijing, Xi’an and Shanghai); Sept. 2007
  • Delegation to the National Institute of Language Education and Training, (NILET), Colombo, Sri Lanka to sign MoU, 2007
  • Delegation to Mahatma Gandhi Institute, Moka, Mauritius to lecture and sign MoU between CIIL, Ministry of HRD, Govt of India and MGI, 2006
  • Poet-Invitee, Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt, Germany, 2006 with readings in lectures in four Cities
  • Writers’ Delegation: Delivered lectures at the universities of Venice, Naples and Rome as a member of Indian delegation in Italy, 1999.
  • Linguistics Fellowship, Humboldt University, Berlin (East, GDR-East Germany, 1985