● 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,
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