Category Name: Agriculture
Foundation Year of Award: 1956
Award Features: Cash Prize Rs. 100000Citation
Award Periodicity: Biennial
Award Recipient Category: Individual(M)
Announcement Time: Upto the end of November/December of the year of the award.
Objective: All agricultural scientist above 40 years of age engaged in research in agricultural and allied sciences in India are eligible for these award. The research work must be original and must have been conducted under an integrated well-focused research programme/project. Though the award is primarily meant for individual senior scientists in cases where more than the scientist may have made distinctive significant and complementary contributions towards the final outcome of the research effort only one scientist may be included as an associate of the principal scientist.
International:(Country/ Brain Gain): National
* Under Revision | Updated till 2021