VASVIK Industrial Research Award

VASVIK Industrial Research Award is an Indian award, instituted to recognize and promote excellence in industrial research in the areas of science and technology.[1][2] The award is given annually to individuals or groups and carries a citation and a cash prize of ₹ 100,000.[2][3]

VASVIK Industrial Research Award
Awarded for	Research in science in India
Location	Patel Vanika, Mumbai, India
Presented by	Vividhlaxi Audyogik Samshodhan Vikas Kendra
First awarded	1976
Website	VASVIK Award website

Profile

VASVIK awards have been instituted by Vividhlaxi Audyogik Samshodhan Vikas Kendra (VASVIK),[1] a non profit making non governmental organization established in 1974 by the Mumbai based business family of Patels,[2][4] headed by Mohan Patel, an ex Sheriff of Mumbai, who is credited with the development of the first ophthalmic nozzle pure aluminum tube.[5] The awards are annual in cycle and have been instituted with a view to promote industry based research in India in the fields of science and technology. Nine categories have been identified for the awards and individuals and groups are eligible for the awards, except one, which is reserved for women scientists.[2] The awardees are selected by a Board of Advisors nominated by the organization. The awards honour innovation in design and production techniques which foster economic growth of the country by way of import substitution, reduction of manufacturing costs and foreign exchange saving.[6]

Categories

The awards are distributed in nine categories of which 8 are open categories and Chandaben Mohanbhai Patel Industrial Research Award is extended to women scientists only.[7]

• Agricultural Sciences and Technology[8][9]
• Biological Sciences and Technology[10][5][11]
• Chemical Sciences and Technology[12][5][11]
• Electrical and Electronic Sciences and Technology[13][5]
• Environmental Sciences and Technology[14][5][15]
• Mechanical and Structural Sciences and Technology[16][5][17]
• Information and Communication Technology[18][19]
• Materials Sciences and Technology[20][5]
• Chandaben Mohanbhai Patel Industrial Research Award for Women Scientists[21][22][11]

Recipients

Agricultural Sciences and Technology

Year	Name	Place
1976	G. J. Patel	Gujarat
1977	M. J. Balakrishna Rao	Orissa
1977	C. T. Patel	Uttar Pradesh
1978	G. S. Venkataraman	Delhi
1978	S. H. Patil	Maharashtra
1979	Neelamraju Ganga Prasada Rao	Telangana
1980	E. A. Siddiq	Delhi
1981	B. H. Katarki	Karnataka
1982	S. K. Sinha	Delhi
1983	B. R. Tyagi	Uttar Pradesh
1983	Akthar Hussain	Uttar Pradesh
1984	S. Bhaskaran	Maharashtra
1985	Inder Pal Abrol	Haryana
1986	Dalbir Singh	Punjab
1986	S. C. Mohapatra	Uttar Pradesh
1987	S. M. Patel	Gujarat
1988	G. S. Sekhon	Haryana
1989	Anupam Verma	Delhi
1990	Yashpal Abrol	Haryana
1991	Raj Mani Pandey	Delhi
1992	Shanti Lal Mehta	Delhi
1993	Jawaharlal Sehgal	Nagpur
1994	Rattan Lal Yadav	Meerut
1995	M. S. Swaminathan	Chennai
1995	V. Arunachalam	Chennai
1996	Raj Krishan Gupta	Delhi
1997	Y. R. Sarma	Kozhikode
1998	Om Prakash Govila	Delhi
1998	Jeevan Prakash Verma	Delhi
1999	P. C. Thakur	Himachal Pradesh
1999	S. Joshi	Himachal Pradesh
1999	T. S. Verma	Himachal Pradesh
2000	P. Ananda Kumar	Delhi
2001	Subhas Chandra Mukherjee	Mumbai
2002	R. K. Pathak	Lucknow
2003	K. Saradamma	Thiruvananthapuram
2003	Thomas Biju Mathew	Thiruvananthapuram
2003	Naseema Beevi	Thiruvananthapuram
2004	C. Chattopadhyay	Bharatpur
2005	Paramvir Singh Ahuja	Palampur
2006	D. D. Patra	Lucknow
2007	R. K. Jain	New Delhi
2008	W. S. Lakra	Mumbai
2009	K. Gopakumar
2010	Subodh Kumar Bhatnagar
2011	T. R. Sharma
2012	T. K. Srinivasa Gopal
2013	Sanjay Kumar	Pune
2014	Prasun Kumar Mukherjee	Mumbai
2015	M.S. Chauhan	Mathura
2016	Pritam Kalia	New Delhi
2017	Shelly Praveen	New Delhi
2018	Amrish Kumar Tyagi	Karnal

Biological Sciences and Technology

Year	Name	Place
1976	No award
1977	No award
1978	V. Jagannathan	Pune
1979	P. S. Appukuttan	Kolkata
1979	Subal Bishayee	Kolkata
1979	Avadesha Suroli	Kolkata
1979	D. Thambi Dorai	Kolkata
1979	Shiv Pillai Kothari	Kolkata
1980	No award
1981	N. M. Khanna	Lucknow
1981	Jagat Pal Singh Sarin	Lucknow
1981	Satyawan Singh	Lucknow
1981	Ramesh Chandra Nandi	Lucknow
1982	No award
1983	Council for Scientific and Industrial Research	Delhi
1983	A. P. Joshi	Delhi
1983	S. V. Gangal	Delhi
1984	No award
1985	Prabhakar Shripad Borkar	Pune
1985	S. Ramachandran	Pune
1985	Churya Sivaraman	Pune
1986	B. N. Dhawan	Lucknow
1987	V. C. Vora	Lucknow
1987	M. C. Bhatia	Lucknow
1987	S. K. Chatterjee	Lucknow
1988	A. F. Mascarenhas	Pune
1989	Suprabhat Ray	Lucknow
1989	Ved Prakash Kamboj	Lucknow
1990	No award
1991	No award
1992	Lalji Singh	Hyderabad
1993	Ramamoorthy Vaidyanatha Swamy	Gwalior
1993	Karumuru Mallikarajana Rao	Gwalior
1994	Satish K. Gupta	New Delhi
1995	Suresh Ramnath Naik	Pune
1995	Girish Mahadeorao Bhopale	Pune
1996	N. Kochupillai	New Delhi
1997	Vijay K. Chowdhry	Delhi
1998	Rabindranath Mukhopadhyaya	Mumbai
1998	Surekha M. Zingde	Mumbai
1999	P. V. Subba Rao	Karnataka
2000	Girish Sahni
2001	Sudhanshu Vrati	New Delhi
2002	Kiran Katoch	Agra
2003	S. P. S. Khanuja	Lucknow
2004	Balram Bhargava	New Delhi
2005	Samir K. Brahmachari	New delhi
2006	A. Ahmed	Pune
2007	Navin Khanna	New Delhi
2008	No award
2009	Kasturi Datta
2010	Arvind M. Lali
2011	Anirban Basu	New Delhi
2012	Nihar Ranjan Jana
2013	Rohit Srivastava
2014	Pradip R. Vavia	Mumbai
2015	KSMS Raghavarao	Mysore
2016	No award	No Award
2017	Shyam Sundar	Varanasi
2018	Pankaj Seth	Gurgaon

Chemical Sciences and Technology

Year	Name	Place
1976	No award
1977	No award
1978	N. V. Bringi	Mumbai
1979	Sukh Dev	Nandesari
1979	K. S. G. Doss	Karaikudi
1980	L. K. Doraiswamy	Pune
1981	A. R. Vasudev Murthy	Bengaluru
1981	G. Suryan	Bengaluru
1982	Paul Ratnasamy	Pune
1983	M. R. Kurup	Nellore
1984	A. V. Rama Rao	Pune
1985	Gopalakrishna Thyagarajan	Adayar
1986	Rajinder Kumar	Bengaluru
1986	G. R. Venkitakrishnan	Pune
1987	M. Ravindranathan	Baroda
1987	S. Sivaram	Baroda
1988	U. T. Bhalerao	Hyderabad
1988	A. A. Khan	Hyderabad
1988	R. N. Parlikar	Hyderabad
1989	Raghunath Vitthal Chaudhari
1990	No award
1991	Subramanian Sivasanker
1992	Joshi Jyeshtharaj Bhalchandra	Mumbai
1993	Vasant Ramchandra Choudhary	Pune
1994	M. K. Gurjar	Hyderabad
1995	G. D. Yadav	Mumbai
1996	A. B. Pandit	Mumbai
1997	T. Ramasami	Chennai
1998	Maheshkumar Ramniklal Gandhi	Bhavnagar
1999	J. S. Yadav	Hyderabad
2000	G. N. Qazi	Jammu
2001	No award
2002	R. A. Joshi	Pune
2003	Prashant Purushottam Barve	Pune
2004	K. R. Krishnamurthy	Baroda
2005	A. B. Halgeri	Baroda
2006	R. V. Jasra	Baroda
2007	V. K. Gupta	Surat
2008	A. J. Varma	Pune
2009	Sandip Kumar Ghosh & N. P. H. Padmanabhan
2010	Pushpito Kumar Ghosh
2011	Darbha Srinivas & Ashok Kumar Shukla	Pune
2012	B. N. Thorat & R. B. N. Prasad	Mumbai
2013	Ulhas Kharul & A. V. R. Reddy
2014	Vivek Ranade & R. Natarajan
2015	A K Das
2016	R.S. Somani & A.A. Kulkarni
2017	Madhukar O.Garg
2018	Srivari Chandrasekhar

Electrical and Electronic Sciences and Technology

Year	Name	Place
1976	K. V. Ramanathan	Mumbai
1976	R. V. Sitaram	Mumbai
1977	J. Das	Kharagpur
1977	M. N. Faruqui	Kharagpur
1977	P. K. Chatterjee	Kharagpur
1977	C. V. Chakravarty	Kharagpur
1977	T. S. Lamba	Kharagpur
1977	S. Rakshit	Kharagpur
1978	M. S. V. Gopal Rao	Hyderabad
1978	C. R. Chakravarty	Hyderabad
1978	V. Narayana Rao	Hyderabad
1979	T. V. Ramamurthy	Sahibabad
1979	N. Radhakrishna Nair	Sahibabad
1980	U. R. Rao	Bengaluru
1981	B. D. Pradhan	Mumbai
1981	S. R. Borkar	Mumbai
1981	N. A. Gandhi	Mumbai
1981	S. A. Mhatre	Mumbai
1982	Srinivasan	Kochi
1982	A. Paulraj	Chennai
1983	R. P. Shenoy	Bengaluru
1983	V. Subramaniam	Bengaluru
1983	Y. Pichi Reddy	Bengaluru
1983	R. L. Verma	Bengaluru
1984	A. B. Bhattacharya	New Delhi
1984	S. N. Seshadri	Mumbai
1985	P. V. S. Rao	Mumbai
1985	A. B. Mehta	Mumbai
1985	J. R. Bankapur	Mumbai
1985	Sugata Sanyal	Mumbai
1985	Aniruddha Sen	Mumbai
1985	T. V. Venkataraman	Mumbai
1986	K. P. P. Nambiar	New Delhi
1986	M. Ramamoorty	Bengaluru
1987	S. Rajendran	Bengaluru
1987	V. V. Sastry	Chennai
1988	M. S. Narasimhan	Chennai
1988	Mukesh Bandari	Ahmedabad
1989	V. Prasad Kodali	New Delhi
1989	Hari Ram Sharma	New Delhi
1990	Vasudev K. Aatre
1990	S. Kedarnath Shenoy
1990	G. Devarajan
1990	S. C. Gupta	Thiruvananthapuram
1991	Lakshmi G. Menon	Mumbai
1991	S. C. Kapoor
1992	D. Lakshmi	Bengaluru
1992	P. S. Goel	Bengaluru
1993	Vijay P. Bhatkar	Pune
1993	A. R. Kalyanaraman	Coimbatore
1994	Bharathi Bhat	New Delhi
1994	Shiban K. Koul	New Delhi
1994	V. T. Ranganathan	Bengaluru
1994	V. Ramanarayanan	Bengaluru
1995	M. V. Pitke	Mumbai
1995	G. B. Meemamsi	New Delhi
1996	L. M. Patnaik	Bengaluru
1996	Sudhir Ganan Bhat	Satara
1997	P. S. Veeraraghavan	Thiruvananthapuram
1997	John P. Zachariah	Thiruvananthapuram
1997	R. Vikraman Nair	Thiruvananthapuram
1998	A. S. Kiran Kumar	Ahmedabad
1998	G. P. Shrivastava	Mumbai
1999	B. B. Bhattacharya	Kolkata
1999	M. K. Kundu	Kolkata
1999	C. A. Murthy	Kolkata
1999	R. Arockiasamy	New Delhi
2000	Bhaskar Ramamurthi	Chennai
2001	K. N. Shankara	Ahmedabad
2001	E. Bhagirath Rao	Pune
2002	S. Rangarajani	Chennai
2002	Krishna Rao Venkatesh	Bengaluru
2002	A. Rudhiramoorthy	Bengaluru
2002	J. B. Venkataratnam	Hyderabad
2002	Gadde Raja Koteswara Rao	Hyderabad
2003	R. R. Navalgund	Ahmedabad
2003	M. D. Raj Narayan	Hyderabad
2004	V. Chander	Kochi
2004	B. K. Sinha	Mumbai
2005	K. Radhakrishnan	Hyderabad
2005	M. Balakrishnan	New Delhi
2005	P. V. Madhusudhan Rao	New Delhi
2005	Kolin Paul	New Delhi
2005	Dipendra Manocha	New Delhi
2006	Vinay L. Deshpande	Bengaluru
2007	No award
2008	Kumar N.Sivarajan	Bengaluru
2009	A. N. Rajagopalan
2010	Abhay Karandikar
2011	Narasimhan Venkatesh	Bengaluru
2012	Rudra Pratap
2013	Shabbir N. Merchant
2014	C. S. Rao
2015	G. Venkatesh
2016	Shri Rakesh Goel
2017	Prof. V Kamakoti
2018	Prof. Kiran Kuchi

Environmental Sciences and Technology

Year	Name	Place
1999	A. K. Sharma	Kolkata
2000	A. P. Mitra	New Delhi
2001	V. P. Sharma	New Delhi
2002	R. Gadagkar	New Delhi
2003	H. Y. Mohan Ram	New Delhi
2004	Thirumalachari Ramasami
2005	C. R. Babu	New Delhi
2006	Paritosh C. Tyagi	New Delhi
2007	Tapan Chakrabarti	Nagpur
2008	S. K. Dube	New Delhi
2009	Ashok K. Singhvi
2010	C. K. Varshney
2011	Rakesh Kumar	Nagpur
2012	B. N. Goswami	Pune
2013	S. R. Wate
2014	Virendra Sethi	Mumbai

Mechanical and Structural Sciences and Technology

Year	Name	Place
1976	R. S. Bir	Bengaluru
1976	C. V. Venkatesh	Chennai
1977	S. V. Kothari	Nagpur
1977	Satish Mehta	Mumbai
1978	S. R. Valluri	Bengaluru
1979	S. Durvasula	Bengaluru
1979	S. N. V. Rao	Bengaluru
1979	T. N. Krishnaswamy	Bengaluru
1979	K. Ramamurthy Reddy	Bengaluru
1980	No award
1981	Santosh Kumar De	Kolkata
1981	Torun Chandra Boruah	Assam
1982	No award
1983	V. Ramamurti	Chennai
1984	No award
1985	Areckal Paul Jayarajan	Bengaluru
1985	Suresh Chandra Tapda	Bengaluru
1986	S. Rajagopalan	Bengaluru
1986	A. Krishnan	Bengaluru
1986	A. V. Ramani	Thiruvananthapuram
1987	P. C. Sasidharan Nair	Kalamasserry
1987	P. Venkatraman	Kalamasserry
1987	E. K. Sasidharan	Kalamasserry
1988	S. K. Mehta	Mumbai
1988	S. M. Sundaram	Mumbai
1989	Prem Nath Bhambi
1989	Harish Kumar Madan
1989	Kuldeep Narayan Dobhal
1990	Madhav Prabhakar Kawthekar
1990	Shreesh Prabhakar Kawthekar
1991	S. B. Bhagat
1991	Arun Kumar Roy
1992	S. B. Bhoje	Kalpakkam
1993	P. Muthukumaraswamy	Coimbatore
1993	S. S. Ramasamy	Coimbatore
1994	S. V. Damle	Mumbai
1995	M. K. Abdul Majeed	Thiruvananthapuram
1996	H. S. Chandraseckariah	Bengaluru
1997	No award
1998	R. K. Gargye	Uttar Pradesh
1999	V. S. Chandrasekharan	Mumbai
2000	Ratan Kumar Sinha	Mumbai
2000	B. B. Rupani	Mumbai
2000	B. S. V. G. Sharma	Mumbai
2001	P. M. Kantak	Mumbai
2002	R. S. Yadav	Mumbai
2002	A. B. Mukherjee	Mumbai
2002	C. N. Ravi	Mumbai
2003	Subhash Chander Chetal	Kalpakkam
2004	Prabir Chandra Basu	Mumbai
2005	Milind V Rane	Mumbai
2006	N. S. Mohan Ram	Tamil Nadu
2007	V. Bhujanga Rao	Visakhapatanam
2008	Dr. Pawan Kumar Goenka	Mumbai
2009	Perumal Chellapandi
2010	Pradip Dutta
2011	G. N. Dayananda	Kharagpur
2012	D. V. Singh	Roorkee
2013	R. N. Iyengar
2014	M. Vasudevan Unni
2014	G. Radhakrishnan
2014	R. N. Iyengar
2014	K. M. Chandran

Information and Communication Technology

Year	Name	Place
1999	F. C. Kohli
2000	P. P. Gupta
2001	N. Vijayaditya	New Delhi
2002	Om Vikas	New Delhi
2003	R. Narasimhan	Bengaluru
2004	D. Dutta Majumdar	Kolkata
2005	Rajendra Pawar
2006	Surendra Prasad	Delhi
2007	Rajeev Sangal	Hyderabad
2008	Vivek Sawant	Pune
2009	Raghunath K. Shevgaonkar
2010	Rajat Moona
2011	Pradeep Kumar Sinha
2012	Shiban K. Koul
2013	Hemant Darbari
2014	Sunil Khandbahale	Nashik

Materials Sciences and Technology

Year	Name	Place
1976	Brahm Prakash	Thiruvananthapuram
1977	T. R. Ananthraman	Varanasi
1978	S. Ramasheshan	Bengaluru
1979	C. V. Sundaram	Mumbai
1980	V. S. Arunachalam	Hyderabad
1981	T. Mukherjee	Jamshedpur
1981	A. N. Mitra	Jamshedpur
1981	M. D. Maheshwari	Jamshedpur
1981	S. C. Mohanthy	Jamshedpur
1982	V. Ramaswamy	Ranchi
1982	S. R. Mediratta	Ranchi
1982	S. M. Aeron	Ranchi
1982	N. S. Datar	Ranchi
1983	C. K. Gupta	Mumbai
1984	P. Rama Rao	Hyderabad
1984	S. L. N. Acharyulu	Hyderabad
1985	Pradip Ranjan Roy	Mumbai
1986	No award
1987	No award
1988	S. B. Subramayam	Hyderabad
1989	K. Balaramamoorthy
1990	Placid Rodriguez
1991	Gadamsetty Venkateswarlu
1991	B. Nageswara Rao
1991	V. Chandrasekaran
1992	C. G. Krishnadas Nair	Bengaluru
1993	R. M. V. G. Krishna Rao	Bengaluru
1994	Baldev Raj	Kalpakkam
1995	Raj Kishore Mahapatra	Hyderabad
1996	Y. V. R. K. Prasad	Bengaluru
1997	P. Ramachandra Rao	Jamshedpur
1998	K. Balasubramanian	Hyderabad
1999	T. K. Mukherjee	Mumbai
2000	P. P. Sinha	Thiruvananthapuram
2000	B. K. Das	Pune
2001	C. Ganguly	Hyderabad
2002	P. C. Deb	Ambernath
2002	S. B. Krupanidhi	Bengaluru
2003	P. M. Prasad	Hyderabad
2004	Y. R. Mahajan	Hyderabad
2004	J. Narayana Das	Ambernath
2005	A. K. Bhaduri	Kalpakkam
2005	G. K. Dey	Mumbai
2006	M. Subba Rao	Bengaluru
2007	Pradip	Pune
2008	G. Malakondaiah	Hyderabad
2009	Ashok Kumar Suri
2010	Dipak Mazumdar
2011	Srinivasan Srikhanth	Baroda
2011	Shrikant Vishwanath Joshir	Baroda
2012	B. K. Mishra
2013	Sanjay Chandra
2014	U. Kamachi Mudali & Prof. V. S. Raja

Chandaben Mohanbhai Patel Industrial Research Award for Women Scientists

Year	Name	Place
1981	Usha Madhusudhan Joshi	Mumbai
1982	Padma Vasudevan	New Delhi
1983	R. Vijayavali	Karaikudi
1984	Lakshmi Sita	Bengaluru
1985	Swarn	Lucknow
1986	Sulochana Gadgil	Bengaluru
1987	Malathy Puspavanam	Karaikudi
1988	Sharada J. Shenoy	Thane
1989	Indira Rajagopal	Bengaluru
1990	Rajani Satish Nadgauda	Pune
1991	Manju Sharma	New Delhi
1992	Mohini Saxena	Bhopal
1993	Sukhada Mohandas	Bengaluru
1994	Retal Goel	Pantnagar
1995	Shantra Krishnamurthy	Bengaluru
1996	Prabha R. Chatterji	Hyderabad
1997	Nilima Arun Kshirsagar	Mumbai
1998	Sujata Vasudev Bhat	Bengaluru
1999	Kalpana Sastry	Hyderabad
2000	Chitra Mandal	Kolkata
2001	Ganga Radhakrishnan	Chennai
2002	Namita Surolia	Bengaluru
2003	B. Meenakumari	Kochi
2004	Suman Kumari Mishra	Jamshedpur
2005	Charulata Padmakar Mahajan	Pune
2006	Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath	Bengaluru
2007	M. S. Shaila	Bengaluru
2008	Padma V. Devarajan	Mumbai
2009	Tessy Thomas, Scientist
2010	Prof. Jyotsna Dhawan
2011	M. Lakshmi Kantam	Hyderabad
2012	Madhu Dikshit
2013	Vandana B. Patravale	Mumbai
2014	Beena Rai

See also

• List of physics awards

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