Citations: ICAR Award Ceremony 2020

Abstract

Incentivizing individual employees and teams for their outstanding performance, across organizations, make them more efficient, responsive and productive apart from improving their level of job satisfaction. The awards, besides recognizing merit and accomplishments, generate healthy competition among individuals, groups and institutions to strive and attain still higher levels of excellence in their respective areas of work. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research has been recognizing and rewarding the institutions, scientists, teachers, farmers and agricultural journalists every year. It is satisfying to note that during this year; 161 awardees under 20 different categories have been selected. These comprise three Institutions, two AICRP, 14 KVKs, 94 Scientists, 31 farmers, 6 journalists and 10 staff members of various ICAR Institutes. It is heartening to note that of the 141 awarded persons 19 are women. Among the Agricultural Universities and Deemed universities, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar has been bestowed upon the Best Agriculture University Award for the rapid strides in all spheres of teaching, research, extension and innovations, ICAR- Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Cochi has been awarded the Best Institution Award among the large institute category whereas, the ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Cotton Technology, Mumbai has been adjudged the best ICAR institution among smaller ICAR Institutes category. All India Coordinated Research Project on Sorghum, Hyderabad and All India Coordinated Research Project on Maize, Ludhiana have been jointly conferred Chaudhary Devi Lal Outstanding All India Coordinated Research Project Award 2019. Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award has been bagged by 6 scientists for outstanding contributions in Crop/Horticultural Sciences, NRM/ Agricultural Engineering and Animal/Fisheries Sciences respectively, two of whom are from outside NARES. Lal Bahadur Shastri Outstanding Young Scientist Award 2019 has been bagged by 4 scientists one each in Crop/ Horticultural Sciences, Animal/Fisheries Sciences and Social Sciences. Jawaharlal Nehru Awards for high quality Ph.D. thesis are being given to 18 scholars. There are 3 awardees for Panjabrao Deshmukh Woman Scientist Award. The Vasantrao Naik Award for Outstanding Research and Applications in Dryland Farming Systems for 2014 has gone to research team from CAZRI, Jodhpur. Dr. Devvrat Singh, ICAR-Indian Institute of Soybean Research, Indore (M.P.) has been conferred NASI-ICAR Award for contributions in developing equipments to encourage mechanization &reduce drudgery. Deendayal Upadhyay Krishi Vigyan ProtsahanPuruskar for KVKs at National Level has been jointly bagged by Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Datia, Madhya Pradeshand Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Venkataramannagudem, Andhra Pradeshfor outstanding extension/ outreach activities having significant impact in developing agriculture and allied sectors of the district. The awards in the best KVK at Zonal level were also bagged by 12 outstanding KVK's in different zones. Jagjivan Ram Abhinav KisanPuruskar has been awarded to 15 farmers, one at National level and 14 at Zonal level. The N.G. Ranga Award for Diversified Agriculture has been awarded to Shri Raghupat Singh, a farmer from Moradabad (UP) forhis outstanding achievements in diversified farming. Two farmers one each from Rajasthan and MP, one among whom is woman are being recognized for their outstanding contributions in promoting organic farming. Deendayal Upadhyay Antyodaya Puraskar for small and marginal farmer category has been bagged by 13 outstanding farmers 1 at National and 12 at zonal levels. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Award for Outstanding Research in Tribal Farming Systems has been bagged by 4 teams of the Scientists one each from ICAR-Indian Institute of Spices Research, Kozhikode, Kerala, ICAR Research Complex for NEH, Tripura Centre, AICRP on Dryland Agriculture IGKV, Jagdalpurand ICAR-Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Regional Research Station, Leh (Ladakh). Swami Sahajanand Saraswati Outstanding Extension Scientist Award has gone to 3 scientists, one each from Manipur, Telengana and Tripura for their outstanding work with the farming community towards promotion of the sustainable development models. The authors of 4 technical books in Hindi, one each on Crop Science/Horticulture, National Resource Management/Agricultural Engineering, animal/ Fisheries Sciences and Social Sciences have been selected for Dr. Rajendra Prasad Puruskar. Sixprofessors/scientists have been selected for the Bharat Ratna Dr. C. Subramanian Best Teacher Award in the fields of Crop/Horticultural Sciences, NRM/ Agricultural Engineering, Animal/Fisheries Sciences and Social Sciences. Six journalists comprising of 4 from Print and 2 from electronic media have been given the Chaudhary Charan Singh Award for agricultural journalism 2019. Nine staff members of various ICAR Institutes 3 each in administrative and supporting categories and 4 in technical category are also being recognized for their contributions to the system.