NATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT 2024

(Single Award)

Prof. Shyam Sundar Rai

Senior Scientist, INSA &

Visiting Professor, IISER, Pune

NATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AWARD 2024 (10 Awards)

SECTION I: Mineral Discovery & Exploration (3 Awards)

Field (i): Mineral Discovery & Exploration (excluding fossil fuels) of economic and/or strategic importance and application of innovative techniques. Out of the two awards in the field, at least one shall be given for critical minerals. (2 Awards)

1. Geological Survey of India (GSI) team comprising of
   1. Shri Haraman Mahanta, Senior Geologist,
   2. Shri Utpol Kumar Das, Senior Geologist,                          
   3. Shri Syam Kumar Sangamreddi, Senior Geologist, and
   4. Shri Sai Kumar Samala, Geologist

2. Geological Survey of India (GSI) team comprising of
   1. Shri Navjeet Singh Nayyar, Director,
   2. Shri Amit Kumar, Senior Geologist,                      
   3. Ms. Tripti Baba, Senior Geologist, and
   4. Dr. Sandeep Kumar, Geologist

Team

Award

Team

Award

Field (ii): Coal, Lignite and Coal Bed Methane Discovery & Exploration of economic and/or strategic importance and application of innovative techniques and Oil, Natural Gas, Shale Gas and Gas Hydrates Discovery & Exploration (including project development and planning leading to exploitation of resource and reservoir management). (1 Award)

 Geological Survey of India (GSI) team comprising of

1. Smt. Sradhanjali Subhadarshini, Superintending Geologist,
2. Shri Supriya Chakraborty, Senior Geologist, and 
3. Shri Jaydip Mukherjee, Director       

Team

Award

SECTION II: Mining Technology, Mineral Beneficiation & Sustainable Mineral Development (2 Awards)

Field (iii): Mining Technology including development and application of new methods and technologies, research & development. Conservation of mineral resources, systematic mine planning, mine safety, mine fires, mine hazards, mine reclamation & rehabilitation. (1 Award)

Dr. Jai Krishna Pandey                                               

Chief Scientist,

CSIR-Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, Dhanbad

Individual

Award

Field (iv): Mineral Beneficiation (including mineral processing, project development for utilization of low-grade ores & production of value-added mineral products and mineral economics) and Sustainable Mineral Development (including mine closure, project development, institutional development and capacity building). (1 Award) 

Dr. Ranjeet Kumar Singh                                                       

Principal Scientist,

CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur

Individual

Award

SECTION III: Basic Geosciences (2 Awards)

Field (v): Basic Geosciences including Stratigraphy, Structural Geology, Paleontology, Geodynamics, Geochemistry, geochronology and Isotope Geology, Ocean Development (Oceanography and Marine Geology), Glaciology and Arctic & Antarctic Research including Geoscientific Expeditions: and science surveys/baseline geoscience data collection including Geological and Geochemical mapping & survey and Systematic Thematic mapping. (2 Awards) 

1. Dr. Vedula Venkata Subrahmanya Srinivasa Sarma              

Chief Scientist, CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography,

Regional Centre, Visakhapatnam

2. Dr. Mekala Ram Mohan

Chief Scientist,

CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad

Individual

 Award

Individual

 Award

SECTION IV: Applied Geosciences (3 Awards)

Field (vi): Applied Geology: Engineering Geology, Geothermal Energy, Seismotectonics, Geostatistics, Remote Sensing and Geo-Information System (including spatial data management applications and data integration); Groundwater Exploration (including project development, hydrogeological studies and management of groundwater resources; Geo-Environmental Studies relating to mining, urban, industrial, coastal and desert management, paleoclimate, paleoenvironment, medical geology, climate change and studies related to their impact on ecosystem. (1 Award)

Prof. Ghulam Jeelani

Professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences

and Dean, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences,

University of Kashmir

Individual

 Award

Field (vii): Geophysics / Applied Geophysics: New Technologies in geophysical exploration, application of geophysical methods, geo-magnetism, geophysical survey techniques and instrumentation. (1 Award)

Prof. Sanjit Kumar Pal

Professor & Head,

Department of Applied Geophysics, IIT (ISM), Dhanbad

Individual

 Award

Field (viii): Natural Hazard Investigation including scientific studies related to natural hazards such as earthquakes, landslides, floods and tsunamis. (1 Award)

Prof. Mukat Lal Sharma                                                          

Professor, Earthquake Engineering

and Head, International Center of Excellence for Dams, IIT-Roorkee

Individual

 Award

NATIONAL YOUNG GEOSCIENTIST AWARD 2024 (Single Award)

Shri Susobhan Neogi

Senior Geologist,

Geological Survey of India