
AWARDS
HONOURS BESTOWED
Meeta Pandit's innate talent and dedication to music have been recognized right from an early age.
1. 2009 “Delhi Ratna” - Art and Cultural Trust of India
2. 2008 “Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award”
3. 'Bismillah Khan Award' for 2008 - Sangeet Natak Academy.
4. 'FICCI Young Achiever Award' for Indian classical music for 2007.
5. 'Yuva Ojaswini Award' for 2005.
6. 'Sur Mayank' - Pt. Nikhil Banerjee Smriti Award: Sangeet Bhavan (Lucknow, 2001)
7. 'Yuva Ratna' - Youth Excellence Award by Rotaract Club, 1999
8. 'Full Circle Inner Flame Award', Full Circle Publishing Pvt. Ltd, 1999. (Honoured by the Hon'ble former Prime Minister Shri I. K. Gujral)
9. 'Excellence in Music' Award: by Lady Shri Ram College (1995)
10. 'Sur Mani' by Sur Singar Samsad (1992)
11. 'Excellence in Music' Award: by St Mary's School (1992)
12. The 'Golden Voice of India' - by the Singers Society of India (1989)
OTHER IMPORTANT DISTINCTIONS
Residency
Invited by the Government of France as Artist in Residence in 2003. Meeta was based in Paris for aperiod of 3 months where she collaborated with Jazz artist Allie Delfau. She has toured India with the Indo-French Project.
Distinctions
1. Meeta has had the priviledge to be a subject of film made by Prasar Bharti in collaboration of Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT) titled “Meeta - Linking a Tradition with Today". The film directed by Shukla Das is of 29 minutes.
2. Sent by the Government of India as the Cultural Ambassador of India to Pakistan during SAARC 2004, Islamabad.
3. Meeta is an 'A' Grade professional classical singer of All India Radio - an official recognition by the government that selects artists to perform on Radio and Television.
4. Empanelled in the ICCR's Reference Panel of Artists. (Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Ministry of External Affairs.)
5. Scholarship from Ministry of Human Resources Development, Department of Culture, Government of India - 1996
6. 'Doctor of Music' - Doctoral Thesis on "Contribution of the Pandit family of Gwalior Gharana to Hindustani Music", 2001


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Receiving Full Circle Inner Flame Award from (former PM) I K Gujral & Dominique Lapiere
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Receiving The Yuva Ratna Award
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Receiving Yuva Ratna Award from Smt. Sharan Ran
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Receiving the Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award
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At her Doctrate of Music Convocation
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