Feb 2014 : National Award for the Best Neurosurgeon in Western and Southern India from Kashmir to kerala Foundation, Mumbai.
Life time achievement honour at Mangalore, Ganiga sammelana 2014.
Seminar on Pituitary tumor management Kasargod 2014. Dr. Bantwal is an authority on this and was on the team when the first trans nasal surgery in India was done in 1989. He was the first to do such a procedure in Mangalore 1996 and for north Kerala in Kannur 2001.
