Young Scientists Awards at Science Congress

President Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam presented the young scientists award for 13 young scientists at the Indian Science Congress at Annamalai University, Chidambaram on January 5, 2007. The award carry Rs. 25,000/- cash and Rs. 10,000/- added by the host Annamalai University to each awardee.

The awardees were selected for their contribution on Science and Technology. Dr. D. N. Kambrekar, Dharwad, a research scholar was selected for the award for the development of Bio Control strategies for the management of sugarcane Woolly aphid in the Department of Agricultural Entomology University of Agricultural Sciences.

Ms. Kuhali Biswas, a research Scholar in the North Eastern Hill University, Shillong was selected for the award for the physiological significance of Expression of Nitric Oxide Synthase Isoforms, and the influence of Osmotic and Oxidative Stress on the Production of Nitric Oxide in the Air breathing catfish.

Dr. Nallusamy Anandaraja, a scholar in the Agricultural University, Coimbatore TamilNadu was selected for the award for Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture. He has also received Nations Post Graduate Agricultural Research Award by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. He developed Farmer Friendly Interactive Multimedia Compact Disc and testing its effectiveness in Transfer of Farm Technology .

Dr. Vinod Kumar, a research scholar in Heterocyclic Compounds has presented seven research papers in National and International Journals. He was selected for the Award for research on Synthesis and NMR. Spectoral Studies of some Azoles.

Dr. Rajeev Saraswat from the Aligarh Muslim University was selected for the Award based on his research on Tracing the Geologic Extent of Hypoxia off the Central West Coast of India.His research work is focused on the development and evaluation of techniques for understanding Climatic changes in the past. He used the changes in the morphological characteristics and elemental and isotopic composition of marine micro organisms.

Dr. P. R. Gogate, who is presently with the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai was selected for the Award for “ A Novel Tool for Process Intensification “

Dr. Manish Tiwari was awarded the Ph.D Scholarship by physical Research Lab, Department of Space. His work on maritime sediment cores from Arabian Sea documented the past variations in the intensity of Indian monsoon using isotopic variations in planktons. He was selected for the Award for his contributions on Southwest Monsoon History for the Past - 19 ka from the Western Arabian Sea.

Parhta Sarathi Mandal a research fellow in Computer Science at Jadavpur University is associated with a project on Sensor Network Management: A Geometric Approach in Advanced Computing and Micro electronics Unit of Indian Statistical Institute Kolkatta. He was selected for the Award for his research projects on Mobile Agent based Checkpointing in Distributed Systems with Arbitrary Topology.

Ms. Diksha Kaushik , presently a Senior Research Fellow of the CSIR, New Delhi .She is specializing in nano materials and self organized semi conductor Q-Dots. She has published over five research publications in international journals of repute. She was selected for her studies on Self Organised ZnSe Quantum Dots on Ito ands GaAs(001) Substrates.

Dr. Chandan Chakraborthy from the Department of Mathematics, IIT Kharagpur was selected for the award for his contribution of fuzzy clustering technique based on fuzzy distance measure under group decision making. He is a research fellow of IIT Kharagpur.

Dr.S.Vidhyadhara, was selected on the basis of his contribution for research on Juxta Articular Aggressive and Recurrent Giant Cell Tumours: Resection Arthrodesis using Bone Transport Over an Intramedullary Hail.

Mr. Nihar Ranjan Jena was presented the award for Quantum Computation and Drug Design . He has recently designed two anti cancer drugs that may prove immensely useful to the Society. He also planned to cultivate scientific temper among school children by organizing periodic popular scientific lectures and by generating various other activities for their benefit.

Dr. Shuba Vij from the Interdisciplinary Centre for Plant Genomics and Department of Plant Molecular Biology University of Delhi has won the award for Genome Wide Analysis and Functional Characterisation of OsiSAPI-Related Abiotic Stres – Responsive Genes from Rice.

The Governor of Tamil Nadu Shri. Surjeet Singh Barnala, Dr. Harsh Gupta the first Geo Physicist and the General President of Indian Science Congress Association, renowned international Scientists and a lot of young and experienced scientists participated at the Conference. Earlier President Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalaam released a booklet on “ The History of Science in India”.

Source : Press Information Bureau
Date : January 08, 2007