Tumbom Riba, an assistant professor from Arunachal Pradesh awarded for her exemplary works in the field of Hindi literature. Union minister for law and Justice Ravishankar Prasad on Sunday presented Shatabdi Samman award to Riba. The award was conferred upon Riba in a function held at Patna.

Tumbom Riba is an assistant professor of Dera Natung Government College Itanagar.  This College was established in the year 1979 with its erstwhile name ‘Government College, Itanagar’ with an objective of imparting higher education to young and inquisitive men and women of the state at a point of time when the opportunity was scarce in the locality. The founders had an ambitious endeavour not merely to make it a centre of offering Degrees but also to let the youths explore new areas of knowledge, providing a platform for budding leadership in all walks of life, preparing them for future challenges in personal and social spheres and grooming them as competent human resources who in turn could promote the high social ideals such as equality, social justice, communal harmony and cultural plurality.

The College has presently 3500 students including three streams of Arts, Science and Commerce. The college has a team of learned and dedicated teachers comprising of 13 departments. The college is affiliated to Rajiv Gandhi University, Doimukh and presently offers Three year programmes of Study leading to Bachelor Degree in Arts, Commerce and Science.