The award for S&T Innovations for Rural Development 2009 will go to the Indian Oil Corporation's Research and Development Centre in Faridabad.
CSIR Director-General Samir Brahmachari said the award carries a cash prize of Rs. 5 lakh, a citation and a plaque and will be presented by the Prime Minister later this year.
The awardees for Biological Sciences are Sanjeev Galande of the National Centre for Cell Science, Pune and Shubha Tole of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.
The others are Swapan K. Pati, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore; Sandeep Verma, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur ; G.K. Ananthasuresh, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (Engineering Sciences); Mitali Mukerji, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi , Umesh Vasudeo Waghmare, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore and Kalobaran Maiti, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (Physical Sciences). This year no award is being given in Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences and Mathematical Sciences.
In his address, Minister for Science and Technology Prithviraj Chavan noted that India's research funding is almost one per cent of the GDP and is poised to go up. Emphasising that CSIR must have strong presence in the engineering research with other fields, he said “I keenly look forward to the day when CSIR would launch its own commercial entities based on the laboratory generated know-hows.”
He also expressed happiness over CSIR's plan for a “Vision Document-CSIR 2022” which is going to broadly focus on its strengths and needs and chart an action plan.
Mr. Chavan expressed concern over India sliding a place to be at the 31st spot in the world competitive index and called for bringing proactive and enabling measures which should propel India among the first 20 if not in the first 10.
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