Prez Murmu Confers National Geoscience Award to 21 Geoscientists
Award and Honour
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President Droupadi Murmu conferred the prestigious 2023 National Geoscience Awards to the winners at a ceremony in the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on 20 August 2024. Prof. Dhiraj Mohan Banerjee, Emeritus Scientist, INSA, was conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award.
National Geoscience Award
The Union Ministry of Mines instituted the National Geoscience Award 1966 as the National Minerals Award. Its name was changed to National Geoscience Award in 2009.
It is considered one of the oldest and most prestigious awards in geosciences.
The annual National Award is given in three categories:
- National Geoscience Award for Lifetime Achievement,
- National Young Geoscientist Award and
- National Geoscience Award.
The award honours individuals and teams for achievement in mineral discovery and exploration, Mining Technology and mineral Beneficiation, and fundamental/applied geosciences.
2023 National Geoscience Award winners
Following is the list of the winners of the 2023 awards and the category in which they have won the award
National Geoscience Award for Lifetime Achievement 2023
- Professor Dhiraj Mohan Banerjee, Emeritus Scientist, Indian National Science Academy (INSA).
National Young Geoscientist Award 2023
- Dr. Ashutosh Pandey, Assistant Professor, Pondicherry University.
National Geoscience Award
Category -Mineral Discovery and Exploration
Team Award
Geological Survey of India team comprising of
(i) Abhishek Kumar Shukla, Senior Geologist (ii) Smt. Danira Stephen D’silva, Senior Geologist (iii) Parsuram Behera, Director (iv) Dr. M.N. Parveen, Director
Team Award
Geological Survey of India team comprising of
(i) Sanjay Singh, Director (ii) Shailendra Kumar Prajapati, Senior Geologist (iii) Shashank Shekhar Singh, Geologist (iv) Kevinguzo Chasie, Geologist
Individual Award
- Dr Pawan Dewangan, Senior Principal Scientist, National Institute of Oceanography, Goa
Category Mining, Mineral Beneficiation and Sustainable Mineral Development
- Dr Harsh Kumar Verma, Senior Principal Scientist, Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, Bilaspur
- Prof. Mangadoddy Narasimha, Mineral Processing & Multi-Phase Flow lab, IIT Hyderabad
Basic Geosciences
- Dr Rahul Mohan, Scientist, National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Goa
Team Award
Geological Survey of India team of (i) Krishna Kumar, Superintending Geologist (ii) Dr Pragya Pandey, Geologist (iii)Ms. Triparna Ghosh, Geologist (iv)Mr. Debasish Bhattacharya, Dy. Director General.
Applied Geoscience
- Dr. Vikram Vishal, Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences IIT Bombay
- Dr. Bantu Prasanta Kumar Patro, Chief Principal Scientist, CSIR, National Geophysical Research
- Prof. Srimath Tirumala Gudemella Raghu Kanth, IIT Madras
Dr Jitendra S Conferred with Distinguished Mentor of the Year" Award
The American College of Physicians has conferred its prestigious "Distinguished Mentor of the Year" award to Dr Jitendra Singh in Lucknow.
The award was conferred during the 9th Annual Conference of the ACP India Chapter in Lucknow.
Dr Jitendra Singh is a Doctor and is also the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Earth Sciences, MoS PMO, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions.
