NISER Director Dr Sudhakar Panda to Get ‘Biju Patnaik Award for Scientific Excellence’

Bhubaneswar: NISER director Prof Sudhakar Panda will receive the ‘Biju Patnaik Award for Scientific Excellence’. ‘Odisha Bigyan Academy’ has announced various awards for scientists for the year 2020 following approval of the Science and Technology Department.

The ‘Biju Patnaik Award for Scientific Excellence’ conferred on the NISER director carries a cash award of Rs. 2 Lakh along with citation and memento.

In the category of “Samanta Chandra Sekhar Award”,  Prof. Luna Samanta of Ravenshaw University, Dr. Danda Srinivas Rao, Chief Scientist, CSIR-IMMT, Bhubaneswar, Prof. Anup Kumar Panda, of NIT, Rourkela and Dr. Saroj Kanta Barik Director, National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow will be awarded with cash award of Rs. 1 Lakh along with citation and memento.

Dr. Shasank Sekhar Swain, ICMR-RMRC, Bhubaneswar, Dr. Nibedita Dash of NISER, Dr. Jnana Ranjan Senapati of NIT, Rourkela and Dr. Satyaprasad P. Senanayak of NISER will be awarded in “Young Scientists” category. Prof. Sangeeta Rath and Himansu Sekahar Fatesingh will receive “Prana Krushna Parija Popular Science Book Award”.

The young scientists and the authors will receive cash award of Rs. 25,000/- with citation and memento. Senior scientists, Prof. Bhaskar Dash, Sanjukta Dash, Prof. Satyananda Swain and Prof Ajay Kumar Patra will be felicitated as senior scientists.