Shrivastava has been decorated many times by the IPS and IB and was awarded the Padma Shri in 1992, for outstanding work in the Northeast.
After retirement he took to writing. He has published five anthologies of short and long stories, of which four are in Hindi and one in English, and continues to write.
Bibliography
Life And Times Of Dacoit Queen Putli Bai (and Some Short Stories), 1990[7]
Slave Boy and other stories & Shubho Srishti and other stories, 2017[8]