Prime Minister presents DRDO Awards
Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh presented the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Awards for the Year 2007 to various scientists and engineers in a simple ceremony held here today. The following is the full list of awardees:-
1. SILICON TROPHY for the Best Systems Laboratory: Aeronautical Development Agency, Bangalore
2. TITANIUM TROPHY for the Best Science Laboratory: High Energy Materials Research Laboratory, Pune
3. DRDO AWARD FOR PATH BREAKING RESEARCH/OUTSTANDING TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT: Sh Avinash Chander, Project Director ‘AGNI’ and his team of 40 scientists
(Dr VG Sekaran, Sh B Sankara Rao, Sh PVG Brahmanandam, Sh MRM Babu, Sh S Vara Prasad Rao, Sh S Bhaskar, Sh RK Gupta, Sh D Lakshminarayana, Smt Tessy Thomas, Sh N Manickam, Sh V Venkateswara Rao, Sh J Chattopadhyaya, Sh G Ramaguru, Sh P Srinivas Reddy, Smt R Sheena Rani, Sh R Venugopal, Smt N Ranjana, Sh VK Agarwal, Sh KS Vara Prasad, Sh M Manickavasagam, Sh M Raghavendra Rao, Sh Ch Satyanarayana, Sh DK Yadav, Sh SK Ray, Dr SK Chaudhuri, Sh K Jagadisan, Sh G Satheesh Reddy, Sh L Sobhan Kumar, Sh PSRS Sastry, Sh BHVS Narayana Murthy, Sh G Venkat Reddy, Brig N Rangarajan, Sh MS Date, Sh PK Mehta, Sh T Mohan Reddy, Dr A Subhananda Rao, Sh SP Dash, Sh Prateek Kishore and Sh R Vijay Vittal)
4. LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Dr. Kota Harinarayana
5. TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP AWARD:
Dr. Dipankar Banerjee, DS & CC R&D and Dr. VK Saraswat, DS & CC R&D.
6. AGNI AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN SELF RELIANCE:
(i) Dr. Raju Venkata Narayana, Sc ‘G’ and his team of 14 scientists
(Sh AN Srikantaiah, Smt V Sangamithra, Sh M Arokiasamy, Sh Ajai Kumar Pathak, Lt Col SN Aithal, Smt P Rajani, Sh Sumanta Pal, Sh Pallav Kumar Tripathi, Sh RPS Rathore, Sh Venugopal Kulkarni, Smt Paramita Barua, Sh Prabhat Kumar, Sh Mohamed Husain AK and Smt Saltanat Ara)
(ii) Sh RB Subramanyam, Sc ‘G’, (Retd) and his team of 29 scientists
(Dr TS Sitaraman, Sh CS Ramachandran, Sh R Guruprasad, Dr Ch RVS Nagesh, Sh GVS Brahmendra Kumar, Sh M Kirtania, Sh S Alla Bhakshu, Sh BV Doraswamy, Sh V Ramanarayanan, Sh P Johnsree, Sh Shanker, Dr. PK Sagar, Dr TK Nandy, Dr Amit Bhattacharjee, Sh S Satyanarayana, Sh G Omkar, Dr K Muraleedharan, Dr T Raghu, Dr N Srinivasan, Sh N Sudhakar Rao, Sh I Balasunadar, Sh MK Rohatgi, Sh A Anand Rao, SC Chetal, Dr. C Chellapandi, Dr. R Srinivasan, Shri D Sridhar, Shri C Phani Babu and Dr AK Gogia)
(iii) Dr. VC Padaki, Director and his team of 12 scientists
(Dr AS Krishnaprasad, Dr. PP Krishnapur, Sh TM Kotresh, Sh M Anandan, Sh R Indu Shekhar, Lt Col Surjit Sahu, Smt MS Subbulakshmi, Smt SN Vijayalakshmi, Sh Tapan Khilariwal, Sh Ajaz Ahmed Bhat, Sh T Raghuram and Sh V Rajendran)
(iv) Sh S Vijayan Pillai, Sc ‘F’ and his team of 11 scientists
(Sh OR Nandagopan, Sh KA Unnikrishna Menon, Sh N Hari, Sh AA Mohan Ram, Ms Beenamma Antony, Sh M Gopakumar, Sh N Sivakumar, Sh M Boominathan, Sh S Vasudevan, Sh PM Manoj and Ms Manjula, Raj)
(v) Dr Abhijit Bhattacharyya, Sc ‘E’ and his team of 59 scientists
(Sh K Vamsi Krishna Reddy, Sh Amit Kumar, Sh PN Dwivedi, Sh Prashant G Bhale, Sh SN Tiwari, Sh Abhishek Anil Bhagat, Sh Prem Kumar, Sh RA Srivardhan, Sh Rakesh Kumar, Ms Shashikala Sinha, Sh S Ravikrishna, Sh Shri Yogesh Verma, Sh P Vishnu Vardhan, Sh Laxman Prasad, Sh D Venugopal, Sh M Shiva Kumar, Sh J Senthil Ranga Rajan, Ms S Rama, Sh AP Vardhan, Sh Ramesh Jha, Sh A Linga Murthy, Sh G Venkat Reddy, Ms P Gajalakshmi, Sh M Kannan, Sh Soumya Shankar, Sh Deepak Yadav, Sh KV Ramana Rao, Sh Subhamay Das, Sh MVKS Prasad, Sh Gandham Ramesh, Sh Kranthi Kumar Rentala, Ms Banda Rukmini, Ms Amritha Singh, Sh D Mallikarjuna Rao, Sh Harish Kaushal, Sh K Hanumesh, Sh Anil Kumar, Sh Suresh Kumar, Sh K Sampath Kumar, Sh Mahesh Kumar Raj Purohit, Sh U Subha Rao, Sh S Narayanan, Sh VV Parlikar, Sh PP Singh, Ms Sucharita Biswas, Sh Gokul Panda, Sh A Thyagaraj, Sh RK Behera, Dr VN Lal, Sh Suneel Kumar Tata, Sh V Srinivasa Rao, Sh Uttam Kumar Sahu, Sh G Praveen, Smt G Sharada, Sh Indra Deo Kumar, Sh A Kamlesh, Shri K Venkatesha, Shri LGM Prakasam and Shri K Ajit Kumar)
7. DRDO AWARD FOR PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE:
(i) Sh AK Chakrabarti, Outstanding Scientist & Sc ‘H’ and his team of 86 scientists
(Sh N Mohan, Sh MSR Prasad, Sh A Joseph, Sh AK Verma, Sh GAS Murthy, Sh PD Srinivas, Sh JC Sharma, Sh M Srinivas, Sh P Dhanasekharan, Sh AP Dash, Sh P Rama Krishna Rao, Commander ML Narayana, Commander P Pande, Commander AB Uday Prasad, Commander PR Pawar, Commander R Barua, Commander DP Joshi, Sh A Madhusudhan Rao, Sh M Bheemsen Rao, Sh GP Biradar, Sh K Sayibaba, Sh Aditya Kumar, Sh S Rengasami, Sh Saiju Sukumaran, Sh Ashish Kumar Gupta, Sh D Siva Prasad, Mrs T Jayasree, Sh A Sudheer Raju, Sh SK Pandey, Lt Cdr G Sowjanya Sree, Sh A Leena Raj, Ms Ruchita Gharwal, Sh VK Aggarwal, Sh PC Jain, Dr Y Krishna, Sh R Krishna Mohan Rao, Sh V Shanmugam, Sh Vijay Kumar, Sh KK Mangrulkar, Sh G Naresh Kumar, Sh B Shivdayal Rao, Mrs J Roopavathi, Sh KS Varaprasad, Sh A Anbarasu, Sh K Tiwari, Sh B Penchal Rao, Sh BV Papa Rao, Sh M Venkanna, Sh S Varaprasad Rao, Sh N Suresh Babu, Mrs G Rohini Devi, Sh G Rama Guru, Sh Anil Kumar, Mrs S Shyamala Devi, Mrs Sarada Prabhakar, Sh S Seetharaman, Sh M Ugender Reddy, Sh SK Mahata, Sh Lokanathan, Sh A Haribabu, Sh VV Ramana Rao, Sh BHVS Narayan Murthy, Sh A Rambabu, Sh Unnata Layak, Sh N Girija Kumari, Sh P Rajani, Sh T Rambabu, Sh A Subhananda Rao, Sh B Bhattacharya, Sh KK Radha Krishnan, Sh B Rajagopalan, Sh Sangam Sinha, Sh DK Biswas, Sh DB Pedram, Mrs Vandana Gandhi, Sh Guru Prasad, Sh RG Gabhale, Sh SP Dash, Dr BK Das, Sh A Appavu Raj, Captain S Nandula, Cdr S Mandi, , Cdr R Maroli, Dr VB Pillai and Shri K Rajasekharan)
(ii) (A) Shri RP Ramalingam, DS, Director and his team of four scientists
(Dr K Maheswara Reddy, Mrs Mini Cherian, Sh M Srinivasa Rao and Mrs S Sarala)
(B) Sh Sanjay Burman, Sc ‘G’ and his team of four scientists
(Smt Manimozhi Theodore, Sh Sanjeev Gupta, Sh Philip Abraham and Sh GVK Sasi Rekha)
The teams mentioned at serial (ii) (A) & 2 (B) have been jointly given the performance excellence award.
8. DEFENCE TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION AWARD:
M/S Premier Explosive Ltd, Secundrabad and M/S SEC Industries Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad
9. ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AWARD:
Prof G Venkataraman and his team of four scientists
(Dr. D Chandrasekharam, Dr YS Rao, Dr R Nagarajan and Dr MV Khire)
10. SCIENTIST OF THE YEAR AWARD
Sh R Srinivasa Rao, Sc ‘G’, Sh Ramachandra Kuloor, Sc ‘G’, Dr. Subir Kumar Chaudhuri, OS,/Sc ‘H’, Sh B Bhattacharya, Sc ‘G’, Dr. Arun Kumar, Sc ‘G’, Sh D Purushottama Rao, Sc ‘G’, Sh Chander Mohan Dhawan, Sc ‘G’, Sh J Shanker Rao, Sc`F’, Dr. Ratnakar Narayan Sarwade, Director, Dr. Beer Singh, Sc ‘F’, Dr. Mahendra Jha, Sc ‘F’, Sh Nalam Veera Raghava Rao, Sc ‘G’, Sh Dhirendra Kumar, Sc ‘G’, Sh Sibnath Som, Sc ‘G’, Sh LC Raghavan, Sc ‘F’, Sh PK Mehta, Sc ‘F’, Sh D Pandurengan, Sc ‘F’, Sh Ashok Kumar Yadav, Sc ‘E’, Dr. Surinder Singh Bedi, Sc ‘G’ and Sh GS Malik, Sc ‘G’.
11. DEFENCE TECHNOLOGY SPIN OFF AWARD
Research and Development Establishment (ENGRS), Pune, Defence Research and Development Establishment, Gwalior, Defence Institute of Psychological Research, Delhi, Field Research Laboratory, Leh and Naval Materials Research Laboratory, Ambernath.
SPECIAL AWARD FOR STRATEGIC CONTRIBUTION
Dr SK Vasudeva, Sc ‘G’ and his team of 38 scientists
( Sh SK Jindal, Sc G, Sh Anand Kumar Gupta, Sc ‘F’, Sh Vishnu Chander Jha, Sc ‘F’, Smt U Jeya Santhi, Sc ‘E’, Sh Amod Mathdur, Sc ‘E’, Sh Sandeep Chopra, Sc ‘E’, Sh D Bala Subrahmanium, Sc ‘E’, Sh Sandeep Sharma, Sc ‘D’, Sh KVP Chandra Shekha, Sc ‘D’, Sh Jitender Kumar, Sc ‘D’, Wg Cdr Samrendra Ghosh, Wg Cdr Rajeev Mittal, Sh M Mukesh Kumar, Sc ‘C’, Sh Ramesh Chand, Sc ‘C’, Sh Shyam Prakash, Sc ‘C’, Sh Sanjeev Kumar Singh, Sc ‘C’, Sh Anjesh Kumar, Sc ‘C’, Sh VS Chauhan, Sc ‘C’, Sh Praphull Kumar, Sc ‘C’, Sh Sourav Kumar, Sc ‘C’, Sh Sreejesh K, Sc ‘C’, Sh Naveen Kumar, Sc ‘C’, Sh Pankaj Aggrawal, Sc ‘C’, Sh Brajraj Sharma, Sc ‘C’, Sh BP Gupta, Sc ‘B’, Sh Gaurav Kumar Kalal, Sc ‘B’, Sh Vijay Kumar Mittal, Sc ‘B’, Sh Tarun Kumar Sahoo, Sc ‘B’, Sh Vibhu Sharma, Sc ‘B’, Sh Rajendera S Paroda, Sc‘B’, Sh Partha Jyoti Gayan, Sc ‘B’, Sh Manjinder Singh, Sc ‘B’, Sh Arka Jyoti Dey, Sc ‘B’, Sh KNV Surya Prakash, Sc ‘B’, Sh Bijay Karunamay, Sc ‘B’, Sh. Ritesh Kumar Aggarwal, Sc ‘B’, Sh Arvind Kumar, Sc ‘C’ and Sh Suchit Saxena, Asstt Contract Engineer.
