National Geoscience Awards 2023

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National Geoscience Awards 2023

● The President of India Droupadi Murmu conferred the


National Geoscience Awards (NGA) for 2023 of the Ministry
of Mines on 21 Geoscientists.
● भारत की राष्ट्रपति द्रौपदी मर्मू
ु ने 21 भव ू ज्ञ
ै ानिकों को खान मंत्रालय के 2023
के राष्ट्रीय भवि
ू ज्ञान परु स्कार (एनजीए) प्रदान किए।
● A total of 12 awards to 21 Geoscientists, including
academicians and professionals from across the country,
were honoured under three categories.
● दे श भर के शिक्षाविदों और पेशव े रों सहित 21 भवू ज्ञ
ै ानिकों को तीन श्रेणियों में
कुल 12 परु स्कार प्रदान किए गए।

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Categories of the awards

Category of Awards Number of Awards

National Geoscience Award 1


for Lifetime Achievement
National Geoscience Awards 10 (3 Team Award + 7
individual Awards)
National Young Geoscientist 1
Award
Total 12 Awards (21 Awardees)

Awardees for the National Geoscience


Awards-2023

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Winners Category
Prof. Dhiraj Mohan Banerjee, an National Geoscience Award for
Emeritus Scientist at the Indian Lifetime Achievement
National Science Academy
(INSA)
Dr. Ashutosh Pandey, Assistant National Young Geoscientist Award
Professor at the Indian Institute
of Science Education and
Research (IISER),
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

Section– I – Mineral Discovery & Exploration

Field (i): Mineral Discovery & Exploration (excluding fossil fuels)


GSI team comprising of Team Award
Abhishek Kumar Shukla,
Senior Geologist
Smt. Danira Stephen D’silva,
Senior Geologist
Parsuram Behera, Director
Dr. M.N. Parveen, Director
GSI team comprising of Team Award
Sanjay Singh, Director
Shailendra Kumar Prajapati,
Senior Geologist
Shashank Shekhar Singh,
Geologist
Kevinguzo Chasie, Geologist
Field (ii): Coal, Lignite and Coal Bed Methane Discovery &
Exploration
Dr. Pawan Dewangan, Senior Individual Award
Principal Scientist Council of

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Scientific & Industrial
Research (CSIR)- National
Institute of Oceanography,
Goa

SECTION- II – Mining, Mineral Beneficiation and Sustainable Mineral


Development

Field: (iii) Mining Technology


Dr. Harsh Kumar Verma, Individual Award
Senior Principal Scientist,
CSIR-Central Institute of
Mining and Fuel Research,
Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh.
Field (iv): Mineral Beneficiation and Sustainable Mineral
Development
Prof. Mangadoddy Individual Award
Narasimha, Mineral
Processing & Multi-Phase
Flow lab, IIT (Indian Institute
of Technology), Hyderabad,
Telangana

SECTION- III – Basic Geosciences

Field (v): Basic Geosciences


Dr. Rahul Mohan, Scientist F, Individual Award
National Centre for Polar and
Ocean Research (NCPOR),
Goa
GSI team comprising Team Award
Krishna Kumar,

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Superintending Geologist
Dr. Pragya Pandey, Geologist
Triparna Ghosh, Geologist
Debasish Bhattacharya,
Deputy DG

SECTION- IV – Applied Geosciences

Field (vi): Applied Geology


Dr. Vikram Vishal, Associate Individual Award
Professor, Department of
Earth Sciences IIT Bombay,
Maharashtra
Field: (vii) Geophysics / Applied Geophysics: New technologies in
geophysical exploration
Dr. Bantu Prasanta Kumar Individual Award
Patro, Chief Principal
Scientist,CSIR, National
Geophysical Research
Institute (NGRI), Hyderabad,
Telangana
Field (viii):Natural Hazard Investigations
Prof. Srimath Tirumala Individual Award
Gudemella Raghu Kanth,
Professor, IIT Madras, Tamil
Nadu

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