Om Prakash Bhasin Award
Om Prakash Bhasin Award for Science and Technology is an Indian award, instituted in 1985 to recognize excellence in the areas of science and technology.[1] The award, given individually or collectively to a group, is annual in cycle and carries a plaque, a citation and a cash prize of ₹ 100,000.[1][2] The winners are invited to deliver the Om Prakash Bhasin Memorial Lecture at a venue decided by the award committee.[2]
Profile
Om Prakash Bhasin Awards have been instituted by Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation, a New Delhi based charitable organization[1] founded by Vinod Bhasin, along with her two sons, Shivy Bhasin ad Hemant Kumar Bhasin, to honour the memory of her husband, Om Prakash Bhasin, a non resident Indian businessman.[3] The corpus for the award of ₹ 5,100,000 was formed by Om Prakash Bhasin as a trust before his death.[3] The awards, started in 1985, are given in five categories. The selection is through a notified procedure and is decided by a committee appointed for the purpose.[1] The committee includes the Chairman of the foundation, two trustees representing the foundation, a member of the scientific community and a representative of the State Bank of India, the bankers to the foundation. The incumbent committee members are:[3]
Categories
- Agriculture and Allied Sciences[4]
- Biotechnology[5]
- Electronics and Information Technology[6]
- Engineering including Energy and Aerospace[7]
- Health and Medical Sciences[8]
Recipients
Agriculture and Allied Sciences
| Year |
Name |
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| 1985 | B. P. Pal |
| 1986 | H. K. Jain |
| 1987 | V. L. Chopra |
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| 1988 | G. S. Venkataraman |
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| 1988 | S. K. Sinha |
| 1989 | S. S. Parihar |
| 1989 | T. N. Khoshoo |
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| 1990 | Prem Narain |
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| 1991 | Rajendra Singh Paroda |
| 1991 | Y. L. Nene |
| 1992 | Anupam Verma |
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| 1992 | Krishna Lal Chadha |
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| 1993 | M. R. Sethuraj |
| 1993 | R. B. Sawhney |
| 1994 | S. N. Dwivedi |
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| 1994 | E. A. Siddiq |
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| 1995 | M. S. Swaminathan |
| 1996 | A. N. Purohit |
| 1997 | S. L. Mehta |
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| 1997 | H. Sekhar Shetty |
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| 1998 | A. Seetharam |
| 1999 | R. P. Sharma |
| 2000 | Sushil Kumar |
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| 2001 | S. Nagarajan |
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| 2002-2003 | Motilal Madan |
| 2006-2007 | Baldev Singh Dhillon |
| 2008-2009 | Deepak Pental |
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| 2010-2011 | Akhilesh Kumar Tyagi |
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| 2012 | Vijay Pal Singh |
Biotechnology
| Year |
Name |
|---|
| 1985 | G. Padmanabhan |
| 1986 | K. K. G. Menon |
| 1986 | H. Y. Mohan Ram |
| 1988 | V. Jagannathan |
| 1989 | V. Sasisekharan |
| 1989 | Sipra Guha-Mukherji |
| 1990 | Indira Nath |
| 1990 | Jyotimoy Das |
| 1991 | S. Ramachandran |
| 1992 | A. K. Sharma |
| 1993 | Avadesha Surolia |
| 1993 | Obaid Siddiqui |
| 1994 | C. R. Bhatia |
| 1994 | H. K. Das |
| 1995 | Asis Dutta |
| 1995 | Brahm S. Shrivastava |
| 1996 | P. K. Mehta |
| 1996 | Lalji Singh |
| 1997 | S. K. Basu |
| 1997 | D. Balasubramanian |
| 1998 | Manju Sharma |
| 1999 | C. M. Gupta |
| 2000 | M. Vijayan |
| 2001 | Partha P. Majumder |
| 2002-03 | Virander Singh Chauhan |
| 2002-03 | M. R. S. Rao |
| 2004-05 | Seyed E. Hasnain |
| 2004-05 | J. Gowrishankar |
| 2008-09 | Samir K. Brahmachari |
| 2010-11 | Kanury V. S. Rao |
| 2012 | Navin Khanna |
Electronics and Information Technology
| Year |
Name |
|---|
| 1985 | M. G. K. Menon |
| 1986 | P. V. S. Rao |
| 1987 | A. P. Mitra |
| 1988 | Narasimhan |
| 1989 | N. Seshagiri |
| 1990 | S. Ramani |
| 1993 | Sam Pitroda |
| 1993 | V. Rajaraman |
| 1994 | G. M. Cleetus |
| 1994 | Surender Prasad |
| 1995 | B. L. Deekshatulu |
| 1995 | Neelakanthan |
| 1996 | Sudhansu Datta Majumdar |
| 1997 | Surendra Pal |
| 1998 | Shankar K. Pal |
| 1999 | K. G. Narayanan |
| 2000 | Vijay P. Bhatkar |
| 2001 | Lalit Mohan Patnaik |
| 2002-03 | Amitava Sen Gupta |
| 2004-05 | Ashok Jhunjhunwala |
| 2006-07 | V. Narayana Rao |
| 2008-09 | Shiban Kishen Koul |
| 2011 | Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri |
| 2013 | Bishnu P. Pal |
Engineering including Energy and Aerospace
Health and Medical Sciences
References