The
National Mineral Awards instituted by the Ministry of Mines were given away by
the Minister of Mines Shri Sis Ram Ola
for the year 2005, here today to outstanding geoscientists, technologists and
mining engineers for their extraordinary achievements and special contributions
in the field of fundamental or applied geosciences, mining and allied
disciplines. Congratulating the
winners, Shri Ola called upon young geo-scientists, mining engineers and
technologists to look into various aspects of locating concealed and deep
seated mineral deposits. He emphasized
the need for developing state-of-art technologies for using low grade ores and
mineral waste for value addition, which will go a long way in sustainable
mineral development in order to make country self reliant.
Shri Ola further said that there appears a
strong need to reorient our priorities and strategy. With the rise in demand of the society, globalization and
economic liberalization, changes in demand pattern for non-renewal resources
and National Mineral Policy, a number of Indian as well as foreign companies
have shown keen interest in investing in the field of mineral exploration,
mining and value addition, Shri Ola added.
Dr.
T. Subbarami Reddy, Minister of State for Mines lauded the role of our
scientists, technocrats, engineers who are contributing phenomenally in the
field of geophysics, geochemistry, disaster management, environment geosciences
and mining discoveries and explorations.
He called upon the scientists of mineral sciences to make an effort for
bridging the gap between India and the
developed countries by discovering the huge potential of minerals that are
available in the country. He further
stated that in the development of Indian economy, mining sector plays a very
important role. It contributes 2.6% to
the country’s GDP, i.e. around Rs.75000 crore. He said that even though GSI has identified probable minerals to
the tune of 18.5 sq.km. in the country, we have to make serious attempts on war
footing to realize the same. Dr. Reddy
also stated that 90% of diamonds that are used all over the world are processed
in India. He mentioned that we have
identified about 450 m carat diamonds and urged the scientists to make efforts
to avoid imports and earn wealth for the country. Dr. Reddy also urged the scientists to find technological
solutions to calamities like earthquake, tsunami etc.
Shri J.P. Singh, Secretary, Mines emphasized that
his Ministry is fully geared to play a pro-active role in exploring and
producing more minerals, adding value and also in earning more foreign exchange
for the country. He added that over the years Indian Mining Sector has
established itself as an important segment of the Indian economy. In pre-independence period, mineral production was only 0.56% of
GDP. As of now, India produces as many
as 90 minerals. The total value of country’s production (mining & quarrying)
excluding atomic minerals, but including minor minerals during 2005-06 touched
an impressive figure of Rs. 75,121 crore, which constitutes around 2.04% of the
country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
As
many as 23 eminent geoscientists, engineers and technologists received National
Mineral Award for the year 2005 and 1 geoscientist received award for the year
2003. With this, so far, 538
geoscientists, engineers and
technologists have been conferred this award since its inception in 1966. Besides a galaxy of eminent geoscientists
and engineers, Dr. Pradeep Kumar, Special
Secretary, Ministry of Mines was also present on the occasion.
Following is the list of awardees:
|
S.No.
|
Awardee
|
Field of
Specialization
|
Organisation
|
|
1.
|
Dr. Kameswara Rao Tadicheria
|
Mineral Discovery
|
Geological Survey of India
|
|
2.
|
Shri Vakalapudi Srinivasa Chowdary
|
Mineral Discovery
|
Geological Survey of India
|
|
3.
|
Shri Sridhar Mondreti
|
Mineral Discovery
|
Geological Survey of India
|
|
4.
|
Shri Reddy Suryanarayana Nalabolu
|
Mineral Discovery
|
Geological Survey of India
|
|
5.
|
Shri Krishan Kant Sinha
|
Mineral Discovery
|
Geological Survey of India
|
|
6.
|
Shri Ram Lal Jat
|
Mineral Exploration
|
Geological Survey of India
|
|
7.
|
Shri D.B. Guha
|
Mineral Exploration
|
Geological Survey of India
|
|
8.
|
Shri Surendra Singh Garhia
|
Mineral Exploration
|
Geological Survey of India
|
|
9.
|
Dr. Pijush Pal Roy
|
Mining Technology
|
Central Mining Research Institute
|
|
10.
|
Shri Raghavan Pattathil
|
Mineral Beneficiation
|
Regional Research Laboratory, Trivandrum
|
|
11.
|
Shri Biswajit Mishra
|
Geology
|
IIT, Kharagpur
|
|
12.
|
Shri Hari Bahadur Srivastava
|
Geology
|
Banaras Hindu University
|
|
13.
|
Shri Rohtash Kumar
|
Geology
|
Wadia Institute of Himalyan Geology
|
|
14.
|
Shri Sumit Kumar Ghosh
|
Geology
|
Wadia Institute of Himalyan Geology
|
|
15.
|
Shri Satish J. Sangode
|
Geology
|
Wadia Institute of Himalyan Geology
|
|
16.
|
Dr. Shailesh Nayak
|
Applied Geology
|
Indian Space Research Organisation
|
|
17.
|
Dr. N. Sundararajan
|
Applied Geophysics
|
Osmania University
|
|
18.
|
Shri N.V. Chalapathi Rao
|
Geochemistry
|
Indian Bureau of Mines
|
|
19.
|
Dr. Govind Joseph Chakrapani
|
Environmental
Geosciences
|
IIT, Roorkee
|
|
20.
|
Dr. Imtiyaz Ahmed Parvez
|
Disaster Management
|
C-MMACS, Bangalore
|
|
21.
|
Shri Abhey Ram Bansal
|
Ocean Development
|
National Geophysical Research Institute
|
|
22.
|
Shri Lehmbar Singh
|
Oil & Natural Gas
|
Oil & Natural Gas Corporation
|
|
23.
|
Dr. Kalachand Sain
|
Oil & Natural Gas
|
National Geophysical Research Institute
|
National Mineral Award – 2003
|
1.
|
Shri
Bhupendra Singh
|
Mineral
Exploration
|
Geological
Survey of India
|
RCJ/ls
(Release ID :24806)