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Awards & Honours

TECHNOLOGY COMMERCIALIZED

MoU has been signed for the first time in the University for seed multiplication of rye grass variety ‘Him Palam Rye Grass 1’ with Durga Seeds Pvt. Ltd., Krishma Seed Farm, Nutranta Seeds Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad & Hanstech Seeds Pvt. Ltd., Patiala and for maize hybrid seed production of Palam Sankar Makka 2 with Nutranta Seeds Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad.

PLANT GENOME SAVIOUR COMMUNITY AWARDS

v Chhohartu, a farmers’ variety of red rice grown in Chohara and Ransar valleys of Rohru, Distt. Shimla

v Three landraces of maize viz., Hachhi, Ratti and Chitku grown in Salooni block of Distt. Chamba, and

v Kala Zeera to Kala Zeera Utpadan Sangh of Kinnaur District of Himachal Pradesh have been registered and received Plant Genome Saviour Community Award under PPV&FRA.

 INNOVATIONS & TECHNOLOGIES GENERATED

v Developed an innovative chromosome elimination- mediated approach of DH breeding following wheat × Imperata cylindrica system for the acceleration of wheat improvement programme (Being adopted globally)

v Established and refined protocols for enhancing precision and efficiency of various crop improvement programmes by using Molecular Cytogenetic approaches.

  

AWARDS CONFERRED UPON FACULTY/INTERNATIONAL EXPOSURE

S. NO.

NAME OF THE TEACHER

AWARD

YEAR

1.

Dr. H.K. Chaudhary

ICAR Young Scientist Award for Agricultural Research (Presently Lal Bahadur Shastri Outstanding Young Scientist Award) for the biennium 1995-96 by the ICAR, New Delhi

1997

2.

Dr. Rajan Katoch

Young Scientist Award for Paper Presentation in Agricultural Research from Punjab Science Congress.

2001

3.

Dr. G.S. Sethi

Rai Bahadur Dr. Ramdhan Singh Memorial Trust Award for life term achievements in wheat and barley breeding & genetics during All India Wheat & Barley Workers Meet (ICAR)-2004

2004

4.

Dr. Naval Kishore

Crop Research Award by Agricultural Research Information Centre, HAU, Hisar

2004

5.

Dr. H.K. Chaudhary

Himachal Kesari Award-2007 conferred by Sh. Virbhadra Singh, Hon'ble Chief Minister, Himachal Pradesh

2007

6.

Dr. H.K. Chaudhary

Prerna Strot Samman Puruskar-2008-09 conferred by Prof PK Dhumal, Hon'ble Chief Minister, Himachal Pradesh on 15th August, 2009 for significant contributions in crop improvement and biotechnology

2009

7.

Dr. V. K. Sood

Certificate of Appreciation for outstanding performance in the field of Forage Resources Development by AICRP on Forage Crops & Utilization, ICAR-IGFRI, Jhansi

2017

8.

Dr. Vedna Kumari

Best Poster Presentation Award (2nd prize) during 3rd National Brassica Conference ‘Enhancing Oilseed Brassica Production through Climate-Smart Technologies’

2017

9.

Dr. Neelam Bhardwaj

 

Best poster award in National Conference on Organic and Natural Farming-A tool for sustainable Agriculture & Economic Development

2019

10.

Dr. Neelam Bhardwaj

 

First prize in oral presentation on “Analysis of an applied core collection of adzuki bean” in the International Conference on Recent Advances in Agricultural Sciences, ICRAAS-2021

2021

11.

Dr. Daisy Basandrai

Dr. M. S. Swaminathan Women Scientist award

2021

12.

Dr. Neelam Bhardwaj

 

Best Poster award on ‘Nutritional characterization and association studies in red rice germplasm of Himachal Pradesh’ on the Theme  ‘Cereal Diversity, Evolution, and Genetic Resources’ in three-day Ist International Symposium on ‘Cereals for Food Security and Climate Resilience’

2022

13.

Dr. Uttam Chand

Best poster award on ‘Biochemical and molecular characterization of locally adapted maize inbreds for kernel provitamin-A and α- tocopherol’ during National conference on ‘Maize for Resource Sustainability, Industrial Growth and Farmer’s Prosperity’

2022

14.

Dr. Vedna Kumari

International training on ‘Genome editing in soybean’ at IOWA State University of Science & Technology, Ames, USA

2023

 

Our Students' Recognition

MEDALS/AWARDS/HONOURS

M.Sc. Gold Medals

04

Ph.D. Gold Medals

03

Himotkarsh Award

02

ICAR-NAAS Elocution Award

03

Overseas Fellowships to PG student

02

Monsanto's Beachell- Borlaug International Scholarship

01

Rajiv Gandhi National Scholarship

01

DST- INSPIRE

08

ICAR Junior/Senior Fellowship

19

NET

65

ARS

10

ICAR International Fellowship

03

International Training/Exposure visit 

17

National Training/Exposure visit

11

Public Sector Jobs

29

Private Sector Jobs

15