The Lok Sabha Speaker, Shri Somnath Chatterjee has called upon scientific community to strive for solving the problems afflicting our country, like lack of availability of safe drinking water, food, health, education and housing. He said this while presenting the CSIR Young Scientists Awards and Young Technology Awards for 2005 on the occasion of CSIR Foundation Day, here yesterday. Delivering Foundation Day lecture, Shri Chatterjee said that “We must perceive science as a social movement and need to make scientific research in our country more and more application based”. Congratulating the young scientists for their excellence in science and technology, Shri Chatterjee urged the scientific community to take on the challenges and underteke gigantic task of transforming India into a knowledge-driven, modern and a developed country. : : : Young scientists who received the awards are :
CSIR Young Scientists Awards 2005 These awards are given for outstanding contributions made by young CSIR scientists based on work done primarily in India. It comprises a citation, a plaque and a cash prize of Rs. 50,000/-. The award also carries a grant of Rs. 10 lakh spread over five years for pursuing a research project independently. Recipients of this year’s awards are: : : : Eath, Atmosphere, Ocean & Planetary Sciences: Dr. Mangesh Uttam Gauns of National Institute of Oceanolography, Goa for his significant contributions to the study of micro-zooplankton in the Arabian sea and for identifying existence of a ‘Microbial lop’, which has provided new insights into the biogeochemistry of a part of the Arabian Sea. Full details at: http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=26726 New Kerala.com Home > News > India News Posted on 28 Sep 2005 # freelancer
