Deepthi K S, Research Scholar obtained R N Pillai Young Statistician Award of Kerala Statistical Association for the paper entitled ‘A Generalization of Exponential distribution with Bathtub Shaped Failure rate Model’, Three Day National Seminar on Innovative Approaches in Statistics in conjunction with the Annual Conference of the Kerala Statistical Association organized by the Department of Statistics, St. Thomas College (Autonomous), Thrissur, Kerala, India, February 15-17, 2018.