16 Scientists Chosen Under 5 Categories for Odisha Bigyan Academy Awards

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Bigyan Academy, with the approval of the Science & Technology department, announced awards for 16 scientists under five categories on Thursday.

Prof Khirod Kumar Jena of School of Biotechnology under KIIT University will get the ‘Biju Patnaik Award’ for Scientific Excellence.

Dr Sanghamitra Samantray, senior scientist of ICAR-NRRI at Cuttack, has been selected for ‘Samanta Chandrasekhar Award’ in the category of Life Science.

Prof Vedangdas Mohanty of NISER at Jatni wil get the award for Physical Science and Prof Subrat Kumar Panda of NIT, Rourkela for Engineering and Technology.

Prof Pinaki Dutta of PGIMER, Chandigarh has been selected in the field of Life Sciences.

Dr Sarita Sekhar Pattnaik, assistant professor, SCB Medical College and Hospital at Cuttack; Dr Apramita Chand, assistant professor, Regional Institute of Education, Bhubaneswar and Prof Rajesh Kumar Prusty of NIT, Rourkela have been selected for Odisha Young Scientist award.

This award for scientist working outside Odisha will be given to Dr Sanjay Kumar Panda, assistant professor, NIT, Warangal.

Rabindranath Majhi and Tulasi Swain have been selected in the General and Children categories respectively for Pranakrushna Parija Popular Science Book Award.

Dr Raja Kishore Paramguru, Dr Subhransu Sekhar Mohapatra, Prof Krushna Chandra Mohanty, Prof DR Bhima Rao and Prof Malay Kumar Mishra will also be felicitated at a state-level award ceremony to be in near future.