 CLRI, Chennai, bags CSIR award
Chennai-based Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI) has bagged the first Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) award for science and technology innovations for rural development.
CLRI has been selected for the award in recognition of its contributions for designing, developing and delivering effectively several critical technologies impacting positively the livelihood of a large number of people engaged in the leather sector.
The award was presented to CLRI by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a function on September 26 in New Delhi.
The CSIR Diamond Jubilee Technology Award has been bestowed on Tejas Networks India Ltd, a Bangalore-based company. It won the award for development and commercialisation of Next Generation Optical (SDH/SONET) Networking products. It carries a cash prize of Rs 10 lakh, a shield and a citation.
As many as 13 eminent scientists have been honoured with the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award for 2006 for their outstanding research contributions.
The awardees are: Vinod Bhakuni, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, and Rajesh Sudhir Gokhale, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, for Biological Sciences;
Gufran-ullah Beig, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, and Pulak Sengupta, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, for Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences;
Srinivasan Sampath, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and K George Thomas, Regional Research Laboratory, Thiruvananthapuram, for Chemical Sciences;
Ashish Lele, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, and Sanjay Mittal, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, for Engineering Sciences;
Vikraman Balaji, Chennai Mathematical Institute, and Indranil Biswas, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, for Mathematical Sciences;
Virender Singh Sangwan, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, for Medical Sciences; and
Atish Dabholkar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, and Sanjay Puri, Jawaharlal Nehru University for Physical Sciences.
The awards carry a cash prize of Rs 2 lakh, a citation and a plaque.
At the same function, Minister for Science and Technology Kapil Sibal honoured six researchers with the CSIR Young Scientist Award for their contribution to science.
P Thanikaivelan of CLRI was honoured for innovation of a new pollution-free route to leather processing.
The other winners are:
Rajkumar Banerjee of the Hyderabad-based Indian Institute of Chemical Technology received the award for his contribution to cancer research, while Srinivas Hota of the Pune-based National Chemical Laboratory bagged the prize for development of applications for chemical genetic probes.
Mohammad Sohail Akhtar of the Lucknow-based Central Drug Research Institute received the award for his contribution to engineering sciences.
Sandip Kumar Mukhopadhyay of Bhavnagar-based Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, and Prakash Kumar of the Hyderabad-based National Geological Institute received the honour in the field of Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences.
(Agencies)
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