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1st Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar: Chandrayaan 3 Team wins Team Award

Q: Q1. Which is the highest award given by the government of India in the field of science and technology?

Answer: Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar

Q: Q2. When was the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar instituted by the government of India?

Answer: in 2023, and first award was announced in 2024.

Q: Q3. In how many categories are the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar given?

Answer: Four categories: Vigyan Ratna (maximum 3 people), Vigyan Shri(maximum 25), Vigyan Yuva(maximum 25)and Vigyan Team (maximum 3 team )

Q: Q4.Who has won the Vigyan Team award of the first Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar?

Answer: Team Chandrayaan 3 of the Indian Space Research Organisation

Q: Q5.What is the prize money of the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar?

Answer: Winners get a citation and a medal. No cash prize is given.

Q: Q6. Who got the Vigyan Ratna award of the first Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar?

Answer: Prof. Govindarajan Padmanabhan in biological science.

Q: Q7. In how many domains is the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar given?

Answer: 13; Biological Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Earth Science, Medicine, Engineering Sciences, Agricultural Science, Environmental Science, Technology and Innovation, Atomic Energy, Space Science and Technology, and Others.

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Updated: 08 Aug 2024

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1st Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar: Chandrayaan 3 Team wins Team Award

The Chandrayaan 3 team of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has won the Vigyan Team Award of the first Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar. The government of India announced the first Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar on 7 August 2024, and it is considered to be one of the highest awards in the field of science, technology, and innovation.

About the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar

The Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar was instituted by the government of India in 2023 after scrapping more than 300 awards given by different institutions. The award consists of a medal and a citation; no cash prize is awarded.

The award recognises the contribution of Indian scientists, technologists, and innovators, either individually or in teams, across various fields of science, technology, and technology-led innovation.

Categories

The award is given in four categories: Vigyan Ratna (maximum 3 people), Vigyan Shri (maximum 25), Vigyan Yuva (maximum 25) and Vigyan Team (maximum 3 teams).

Domains

The award is given in 13 domains: Biological Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Earth Science, Medicine, Engineering Sciences, Agricultural Science, Environmental Science, Technology and Innovation, Atomic Energy, Space Science and Technology, and Others.

When will the award be conferred?

President Drouapdi Murmu will confer the award to the winners at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi, on 23 August 2024, on the occasion of National Space Day.

Winners of the 2024 Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar

The list of the winners of the first Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar is as follows.

Serial No	Award	Winner	Field/Domain
1	Vigyan Ratna	Prof. Govindarajan Padmanabhan	Biological Science
2	Vigyan Shri	Dr. Anandharamakrishnan C	Agricultural Science
3	Vigyan Shri	Dr. Avesh Kumar Tyagi	Atomic Energy
4	Vigyan Shri	Prof. Umesh Varshney	Biological Science
5	Vigyan Shri	Prof. Jayant Bhalchandra Udgaonkar	Biological Science
6	Vigyan Shri	Prof. Syed Wajih Ahmad Naqvi	Earth Science
7	Vigyan Shri	Prof. Bhim Singh	Engineering Sciences
8	Vigyan Shri	Prof. Adimurthi Adi	Mathematics and Computer Science
9	Vigyan Shri	Prof. Rahul Mukherjee	Mathematics and Computer Science
10	Vigyan Shri	Dr Sanjay Behari	Medicine
11	Vigyan Shri	Prof. Lakshmanan Muthusamy	Physics
12	Vigyan Shri	Prof. Naba Kumar Mondal	Physics
13	Vigyan Shri	Dr. Annapurni Subramaniam	Space Science and Technology
14	Vigyan Yuva	Prof. Rohit Srivastava	Technology and Innovation
15	Vigyan Yuva	Dr. Krishna Murthy S L	Agricultural Science
16	Vigyan Yuva	Dr. Swarup Kumar Parida	Agricultural Science
17	Vigyan Yuva	Prof. Radhakrishnan Mahalakshmi	Biological Sciences
18	Vigyan Yuva	Prof. Aravind Penmatsa	Biological Sciences
19	Vigyan Yuva	Prof. Vivek Polshettiwar	Chemistry
20	Vigyan Yuva	Prof. Vishal Rai	Chemistry
21	Vigyan Yuva	Dr. Roxy Mathew Koll	Earth Science
22	Vigyan Yuva	Dr. Abhilash	Engineering Sciences
23	Vigyan Yuva	Dr. Radha Krishna Ganti	Engineering Sciences
24	Vigyan Yuva	Dr. Purabi Saikia	Environmental Science
25	Vigyan Yuva	Dr. Bappi Paul	Environmental Science
26	Vigyan Yuva	Prof. Mahesh Ramesh Kakde	Mathematics and Computer Science
27	Vigyan Yuva	Prof. Jitendra Kumar Sahu	Medicine
28	Vigyan Yuva	Dr. Pragya Dhruv Yadav	Medicine
29	Vigyan Yuva	Prof. Urbasi Sinha	Physics
30	Vigyan Yuva	Dr. Digendranath Swain	Space Science and Technology
31	Vigyan Yuva	Dr. Prashant Kumar	Space Science and Technology
32	Vigyan Yuva	Prof. Prabhu Rajagopal	Technology and Innovation
33	Vigyan Team	ISRO - Team Chandrayaan 3	Space Science and Technology