Saurabh Suman

Dr. Saurabh Suman is an Indian Agri researcher who was awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar. She leads an NGO that empowers women in Bihar. Suiman has also been involved in organising celebrations of Mahishasur martyrdom day.

Life Suman was born in a Kushwaha (Koeri) family of Bihar, but was raised in a Dalit family. In 1980 her father, Kameshwar Singh Mahto, was arrested and sentenced to death for murder. This was later commuted. where she studied agricultural science, but later decided to become involved in social work.

She has been involved in organising celebrations of Mahishasur martyrdom day.

In 2016 Suman went to New Delhi where she was awarded the highest award for women in India, the Nari Shakti Puraskar. The awards were made by President Pranab Mukherjee at the presidential palace (Rashtrapati Bhavan). The ministry for Women and Child Development had organised the event and the WDC Minister Maneka Gandhi was present as well as the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Suman surrendered herself to the court noting that she had been framed and that she had not paid these men with land and money to kill Paswan.