What India needs from the ‘Vigyan Puraskar’ awards and what it can get | Explained
1 year, 1 month ago

What India needs from the ‘Vigyan Puraskar’ awards and what it can get | Explained

The Hindu  

Recently, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research announced the winners of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awards for 2022. A new system of awards The new system, called the ‘Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar’, includes a bouquet of awards: Vigyan Shri, Vigyan Yuva-Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, Vigyan Team, and Vigyan Ratna. Importantly, with the exception of the Vigyan Yuva-SSB award – for scientists up to the age of 45 years – the other RVP awards don’t have an age limit, while explicitly committing to ensure equitable gender representation. The RVP awards will also be open to Persons of Indian Origin abroad, which is relevant given India’s large and accomplished scientific, engineering, and technology diaspora, and the increasingly global footprint of modern science. Third: The age limit of 45 years for the Vigyan Yuva-SSB for young scientists is a serious challenge to the new system’s own commitment to ensure gender parity.

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BDU felicitates Vigyan Shri award-winner M. Lakshmanan
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BDU felicitates Vigyan Shri award-winner M. Lakshmanan

The Hindu  

M. Lakshmanan, theoretical physicist, Professor of Eminence and DST-SERB National Science Chair, who was one of the 13 scientists conferred with the Rashtriya Puraskar – Vigyan Shri award recently was felicitated at a function organised by Bharathidasan University on Wednesday. Professor Lakshmanan is the only one from universities in India to get the award, while the rest belonged to national …

Perfunctory panacea: On the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar
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Perfunctory panacea: On the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar

The Hindu  

Later this month, 33 scientists will be awarded the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar, the current government’s revamped approach to independent India’s long tradition of annually awarding scientists with promise. The rejig is in doing away with the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awards, once awarded to scientists under 45 by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. The list of awardees spans a …

Chandrayaan-3 team, ex-IISc director win national science awards
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Chandrayaan-3 team, ex-IISc director win national science awards

The Hindu  

The government has announced the first set of Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar, or national awards for scientists, ever since it controversially cut down the number of such awards in 2022. Following the rehaul of the scientific awards scheme, the Ministry of Science and Technology in January this year had notified four categories of awards, comprising a maximum of 56, for scientists. …

Does cash take away the cachet of science awards?
1 year, 2 months ago

Does cash take away the cachet of science awards?

The Hindu  

Nearly a year after the Union government decided to cut the number of prizes annually awarded by its science-affiliated Ministries, it has instituted the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar — 56 prizes to felicitate scientists, technologists and innovators. In a country with such with a large science and technology infrastructure, we need many more science awards because they act as incentives for …

Top science awardees may not get cash perks next year onwards
1 year, 2 months ago

Top science awardees may not get cash perks next year onwards

Hindustan Times  

Prizes recognising contributions of Indian scientists, including the recast Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards, are unlikely to carry a cash component from next year, officials of the science and technology ministry said on Monday. The awards presented on Tuesday will carry a cash component, but from next year, there will only be a certificate and medallion presented to the awardees,” the …

Broadening the field: The Hindu Editorial on science awards and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize winners
1 year, 3 months ago

Broadening the field: The Hindu Editorial on science awards and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize winners

The Hindu  

After a delay of nearly a year, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research has announced winners of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prizes. It was unusual then, last year, when the CSIR did not announce awards despite the winners having already been picked before September 26, the institute’s foundation day and traditionally the date on which the year’s winners are …

Centre announces winners of Bhatnagar Prize after a year’s delay
1 year, 3 months ago

Centre announces winners of Bhatnagar Prize after a year’s delay

The Hindu  

After nearly a year’s delay, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research has publicised the list of awardees for the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awards for 2022, considered among the prestigious prizes for science in India. While usually announced on September 26 – CSIR’s Foundation Day – the prizes weren’t announced last year, without any official reason being ascribed. Last year, …

Talent and recognition: The Hindu Editorial on reducing number of science awards
2 years, 2 months ago

Talent and recognition: The Hindu Editorial on reducing number of science awards

The Hindu  

The Centre has decided that awards, prizes and fellowships by various ministries and departments need a wholesale relook. India’s scientific ministries recently made presentations to the Union Home Secretary, Ajay Bhalla, on awards given to scientists at different stages of their career. Though a final call is yet to be taken, the quorum — and this consisted of the Secretaries, …

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