S&T Awards*

Mahavriksha Puraskar

Category Name: Agriculture

Foundation Year of Award: 1993

Award Features: Cash Prize Rs. 26000

Award Periodicity: Annual

Award Recipient Category: Individual(M/F)

Objective: This fellowship is given in recognition of significantly important research and development contributions and is also intended to encourage talented individuals to devote themselves to R&D pursuits in the field of environmental sciences

Criteria: (i) Govt. departments like forests revenue or any other organisations/institutions if the tree exists on Government institutional land. In respect of forests/revenues as the case may be (iii) Individuals in case the tree exists on private land (iv) Botanical gardens will not be eligible for participation. department the competing unit shall be the forest division/Teh sil (ii) Municipalities village panchayats/village committees if the tree exists on municipal and/or panchayat/common lands

International:(Country/ Brain Gain): National

* Under Revision | Updated till 2021