 He was a recipient of the 1977 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award.and 1974 Odisha Sangeet Natak Akademi Award.Deba Prasad Das was born in 1932 in a small village near Cuttack called Keul Chabi Sua, in the Indian state of Odisha to Indramani Devi and Durga Charan Das, a police officer.