Awards & Honours

Last Updated: September 16, 2023

Awards / Honours

Name of faculty Member	Name of award / honour	Year of award / honour	Organization
Dr Ajai Srivastava	Best AICRP Scientist (Entomology)	2009-10	IIRR, Hyderabad
Dr P K Sharma	Best AICRP Scientist (Entomology)	2009-10	IIRR, Hyderabad
Dr (Mrs.) Vijay Rana	DR Appreciation Letter	2013 - 14	CSKHPKV, Palampur
Dr S K Rana	DR Appreciation Letter	2013 - 14	CSKHPKV, Palampur
Dr Sandeep Manuja	DR Appreciation Letter	2013 - 14	CSKHPKV, Palampur
Dr (Mrs.) Vijay Rana	Fellow ,Society for Advancement of Wheat Research	2014	IIWBR, Karnal
Dr Sachin Upmanyu	Best AICRIP Center Award – Plant Pathology	2015	IIRR, Hyderabad
Dr Daisy Basandrai and Dr Ashwani Basandrai	Best Poster Award – 2^nd	2015	AICRP on MULLaRP at PAU, Ludhiana
Dr Sachin Upmanyu & Dr Sandeep Manuja	Best Poster Award	2018	CSKHPKV, Palampur
Dr Ajai Srivastava (Student Research)	Best Oral Presentation	2017	NBAIR, Bangalore
Dr (Mrs.) Vijay Rana	Zonal Councilor (North Hill Zone), SAWBAR, ICAR-IIWBR, Karnal	2019	ICAR-IIWBR, Karnal
Dr Ajai Sriastava	Outstanding Scientist Award during 2^nd International Scientist Awards on Engineering, Science and Medicine	2019	VDGOOD Professional Association.
Dr Ajai Sriastava & Team	Get awarded Genome Savior Community Award for red rice farmers of Rohru	2021	PP&FRA, New Dehli

Red rice farmers of Rohru get award

Palampur, November 11

Red rice farmers of Rohru received Rs. 10 lakh Plant Genome Saviour Award from Union Agriculture Minister Narinder Singh Tomar at a function held in New Delhi.

Varsha Sharma, Pradhan, Leela Vati, Dipna Mehta sent the Red Rice Farmers Society and Dr. Ajai Srivatava, Scientist In-charge Rice and Wheat Research Centre, Malan, and Ram Krishan, Subject Matter Specialist (SMS), Jubbal were present to receive the award worth Rs. 10 lakh, a citation and a memento.

Prof H. K. Choudhary, Vice Chancellor, CSK Himachal Pradesh Agriculture University, conveyed his greetings to the farmers and appreciated the efforts of the University scientists to extend technical support to the farmers to bag the award.

He said this is India’s highest award for the farmers, given in recognition of their contribution in conserving and developing plant varieties. The Vice Chancellor assured the farming community of extending all assistance, guidance and support in such endeavours in the coming times too.

Ø Patents awarded:

A repellent agent and a process for the preparation thereof”

Dodonea viscosa

Patent No 317940

Date of grant: 08/08/2019

Applicant: CSK HPKV, Palampur

Inventor: Dr Ajai Srivastava

National and International Visitors to the Centre (2017-19)

· Prof Ian Phillip King, Director WRC and Dr Jaswant Singh, Nottingham (UK) on 1-4-2018

· Dr. M.S.Saharan, Principal Scientist (Plant Pathology), IARI New Delhi on 13.09.2017.

· Dr Ashwani Kumar, Librarian CSK HPKV Palampur on 13-9-2017 and 7-3-2018

· SDM, Nagrota Bagwan on 14-7-2017

· Dr M C Kharakwal Retd Geneticist IARI New Delhi on 13-9-2017

· Dr LV Subba Rao, PS, A P Padmanabhan , PS Entomology, Jawahar Lal Katara Scientist, Biotechnology on 21& 22 Sept 2017 (AICRP Rice monitoring Team, IIRR,Hyderabad)

· Dr N K Gupta, Director, HPSS&OPCA, Shimla on 27-9-2017

· Dr G P Singh Director IIWBR, Karnal and Dr Ravish Chatrath on 25-11-2017

· Dr Sukhwinder Singh ,CIMMYT Mexico on March 7, 2018

· Director, IIRS, Dehradun on 7-4-2018

· Dr D P Walia, Dr Dibakar Mahanta, Dr Sudhir, Dr Lokender Kumar on 12-4-2018 ( AICRP Wheat Monitoring Team, IIWBR, Karnal)

· Dr S. Jambhulkar, BARC, BARC, Mumbai in June- July, 2018

· Dr Sanjay Marwaha, Director HPSS&OPCA, Shimla on 27.07.2018

· Dr Desh Raj, Director of Agriculture, Himachal Pradesh, September, 2018

· Rice monitoring team visited on 20.09.20

· Dr G.S. Katti, Head Plant Protection IIRR, Hyderabad on 5.10.2018

· Dr Sanjay Marwaha, Director HPSS&OPCA, Shimla on 8-10-2018

· Hon’ble Vice-Chancelloer, Prof A. K. Sarial visited on 30.11.18

· Dr Suman Bakshi, BARC, Mumbai

· AICRP (Wheat & Barley) monitoring team visited on 11.04.2019

· AICRP (Rice) monitoring team visited 28.09.2019

· DR Yog Raj, Asia Head and Dr P. N. Singh from Bayer visited on 03.10.2019