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15/11/23 10:17 AM IST

Vigyan Puraskar’ awards

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  • Recently, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research announced the winners of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) awards for 2022.
A new System of Awards
  • The new system, called the ‘Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar’ (RVP), includes a bouquet of awards: Vigyan Shri, Vigyan Yuva-Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, Vigyan Team, and Vigyan Ratna.
  • The government has expressed an intention to keep the RVP at par with the Padma and other national awards.
  • The new awards will be open to an expanded group of “scientists, technologists and innovators (or teams) working in government, private sector organisations or individuals working outside any organisation”.
  • The RVP will be given across 13 scientific domains, including basic sciences, applied sciences, medicine, and engineering.
  • The award announcement stated that “representation from each domain/field, including gender parity will be ensured”.
  • The RVP awards will invite nominations for some time, and be evaluated by a RVP Committee comprising “the Principal Scientific Adviser to Government of India and … Secretaries of Science Departments, members of Science and Engineering Academies” and noted science/technology scholars.
Different from older version of awards
  • The newly proposed RVP structure is significant for many reasons.
  • The new awards are also open to innovators and technologists, including those in industry, and with diverse, non-regular affiliations.
  • The new awards will also have expanded eligibility criteria, including technology-led innovations or products, in addition to discovery-based research.
  • The RVP also includes a set of team awards (Vigyan Team), to acknowledge the increasingly collaborative, cross-disciplinary, translational and intersectional nature of scientific research.
  • With the exception of the Vigyan Yuva-SSB award – for scientists up to the age of 45 years – the other RVP awards don’t have an age limit, while explicitly committing to ensure equitable gender representation. 
  • The RVP awards will also be open to Persons of Indian Origin abroad, which is relevant given India’s large and accomplished scientific, engineering, and technology diaspora, and the increasingly global footprint of modern science.
  • Finally, the new award system has eliminated cash prizes, and will instead include certificates and medals.
Source- The Hindu

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