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Ripa Das

Tripura

Youngest receipient of the bravery award

Ripa Das got National Bravery Award medal by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Republic Day function in New Delhi in 2015 for saving his one-year old brother from a devastating fire accident.The fire incident was occurred on April 24 in 2014 at Bankar area in Belonia under South Tripura District. Total 12 shops and houses were gutted into fire. Her mother and grandmother panicked and came out of the house leaving the two children as fire engulfed their house but Ripa without losing her cool, somehow managed to come out of the house with her brother Ishan. She was the youngest receipient of the bravery award in the programme.

https://thenortheasttoday.com/states/tripura/5-women-from-tripura-who-are-making-it-big-at-the/cid2552713.htmm

https://youtu.be/NSr59wxXp2A