Awards & Honours

Awards/Honours

• On the basis of Research work done  on Apis mellifera, Dr Rajesh Garg  got admission in Univ. of Cardiff (U.K.)

• On the basis of Research work done on Apis mellifera Dr Rajesh Garg  made Patron of Northern India Beekeepers Association( NIBA, Chandigarh)

• Dr Rajesh Garg made life member of National Bee Board, New Delhi in recognition of work done on Apis mellifera.

• Dr Rajesh Garg is  member of Acarological society of India, Bangalore

• Dr Rajesh Garg is  member of Bee Research Association, Pune

• Dr Rajesh Garg is  member of The Entomological Society of India ,New Delhi

• Dr Rajesh Garg is member of Plant Protection Association of India, Hyderabad.

• Dr Rajesh Garg is member of Insect study and conservation network Bangalore.

• Dr Rajesh Garg is  member  of Patron, Northern Bee Keepers Association Chandigarh

• Dr Rajesh Garg is member of National Bee Board. New Delhi.

• Dr Dhanbir Singh awarded UNDP Senior Fellowship during PhD.

• Dr Dhanbir Singh elected Councillor of North zone of Indian Society of Mycology and Plant Pathology in 1997.

• Dr S.L. Gartan admitted as Fellow of Indian Society of Pulses Research and Development in the year 1994.

• CSK HPKV, HAREC Dhaulakuan was awarded Vice Chancellor’ Appreciation Awards -2002 and 2003 for excellent work done on ginger.

• Dr Akhilesh Singh awarded Univ. Merit scholarship during graduation (1979-82)

• Dr Akhilesh Singh awarded ICAR Sr. Res. Fellowship for Ph.D. (1986-89)

• Dr Akhilesh Singh awarded Fellow of Indian Phytopathological Society (1995)

• Dr Akhilesh Singh is a member of REC of National Research Centre for Seed Spices, Ajmer w.e.f. 2009.

• Dr (Ms) Daisy Basandrai awarded Best poster award was given for the paper entitled, “Variation in Botrytis  cinerea populations from Western Australia causing Botrytis Grey Mould of chickpea presented in the on February, 14-16, 2009.

• Dr (Ms) Daisy Basandrai nominated as member Monitoring team for MULLaRP group of crops (Rabi and Kharif, 2008-2011, Hissar, IARI New Delhi, Bawal), Project Coordinator, MULLaRP (ICAR) 2009 in International Conference on Grain Legumes, held at IIPR, Kanpur,2009.

• Dr (Ms) Daisy Basandrai nominated as Referee for the Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences and Journal of food legumes, ICAR in 2004 onwards.

• Dr (Ms) Daisy Basandrai nominated as Member of the National team who visited ICARDA, Aleppo Syria to interact with legume breeders of ICARDA regarding improvement of Indian Lentils under ICAR- ICARDA collaborative project ICAR in 2006.

• Dr (Ms) Kanika Baghla awarded “Woman Scientist Award” in online ‘National Conference online on “sustainable development through Agriculture Production, Protection and Policy Landscape for crop care” at MVN University, Palwal Haryana during Jan. 18-19, 2023.

• Dr. S.S. Paliyal, Principle Scientist (Soil Science)-cum-Associate Director(R&E), HAREC, Dhaulakuan, awarded “Sirmour Gaurav Vashisht Saman, 2023” in the field of Agriculture by Shankhnad Media and Shankhnad Social Organization, Nahan, Sirmour H.P. on June 24, 2023.

Awards and Honours of Dr. Ashwani Kumar Basandrai:

• Invited to attend 2^nd International Ascochyta Workshop. Ascochyta, Washington University Pullman, (USA) May 26-29, 2009) and presented three papers.

•  Nominated as National PI, MULLaRP Pathology (2007-2016)

•  Fellow Indian Society of Plant Pathologists, PAU Ludhiana (2009)

• Fellow Indian Society of Pulses Research and Development  (2016)

• Fellow Indian Phytopathological Society (2018)

• Best poster award at 6^th IFLRC held at IIPR, Kanpur  (2009)

• Best paper poster award at 12th Maize Workshop at Bankok (Thailand)  (2012)

• II best poster at Brain Storming Meeting on Promotion of Pulses in North India (2014)

• KC Mehta and Manoranjan Mittra Award by Indian Phytopathological Society (2022)

• Recognition Award in Crop Protection, by Indian Society of Pulses Research and Development, IIPR, Kanpur (2023)

• Chairman/convenor of Technical Program Formulation Committee for planning and executing technical programs of  as National PI of pathology of MULLaRP crops.

• Convenor of Team for monitoring Kharif and Rabi breeding, agronomy, pathology, nematology, microbiology, physiology trials of moong, mash, lentil, lathyrus, lentil and field peas during the years(2008-15).

• Member of the team constituted for the monitoring of AICRP Maize (1997, 2012)

• Member editorial board of the Journal Research on Crops    2010-2012 (NAAS rating 4.75)

•  Invited lecture on “Status of ascochyta blight of chickpea” at ICRISAT, Patencheru in ICRISAT-ICAR sponsored High Throughput Training on Chickpea and Pigeon pea diseases  and was awarded Director Generals Appreciation Award

• Invited to attend  National Seminar on Spices at Sher-e-Kasmir University of Agriculture Sciences and Technology, Chatha, (Jammu) and presented lead lecture on Diseases of spices. (2010)

• Delivered the lecture on “Integrated disease management of  important spice crops of Himalayan region with special reference to ginger” in the Annual Meeting of INSOPP at PAU, Ludhiana (2007)

• Member of the delegation of scientists, deputed to visit  ICARDA, Syria  in 2007.  Member of the Traveling Workshop on Lentil, Chickpea and Lathyrus under ICAR-ICARDA collaborative programme in India during March, 2008

•   Organizing Secretary, Annual Group Meeting of MULLaRP group of crops and Pigeonpea May 15-17, 2010.

• Attended brain storming Session on Challenges, Prospectus and Strategies to enhance the pulse production in North India. Presented paper on various means to increase pulses production in North HILL Zone.

• Brain Storming Session on prospectus of pulses in coastal area at II (2014).