| Om Prakash Bhasin Award | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Research in science in India | 
| Location | India | 
| Presented by | Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation | 
| First awarded | 1985 | 
| Website | opbfawards.com | 
Om Prakash Bhasin Award for Science and Technology is an Indian award, instituted in 1985 to recognize excellence in the areas of science and technology.[1] The award, given individually or collectively to a group, is annual in cycle and carries a plaque, a citation and a cash prize of ₹ 100,000.[1][2] The winners are invited to deliver the Om Prakash Bhasin Memorial Lecture at a venue decided by the award committee.[2]
Profile
Om Prakash Bhasin Awards have been instituted by Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation, a New Delhi-based charitable organization[1] founded by Vinod Bhasin, along with her two sons, Shivy Bhasin and Hemant Kumar Bhasin, to honour the memory of her husband, Om Prakash Bhasin, a non resident Indian businessman.[3] The corpus for the award of ₹ 5,100,000 was formed by Om Prakash Bhasin as a trust before his death.[3] The awards, started in 1985, are given in five categories. The selection is through a notified procedure and is decided by a committee appointed for the purpose.[1] The committee includes the Chairman of the foundation, two trustees representing the foundation, a member of the scientific community and a representative of the State Bank of India, the bankers to the foundation. The incumbent committee members are:[3]
- Shivy Bhasin - Chairman
- Hemant Kumar Bhasin - Foundation trustee
- Vinod Prakash Sharma - Scientist trustee
- Samar Vikram Bhasin - Foundation trustee
- State Bank of India nominee
Categories
Recipients
Agriculture and Allied Sciences
Source: Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation
| Year | Recipient | 
|---|---|
| 1985 | B. P. Pal | 
| 1986 | H. K. Jain | 
| 1987 | V. L. Chopra | 
| 1988 | G. S. Venkataraman | 
| 1988 | S. K. Sinha | 
| 1989 | S. S. Parihar | 
| 1989 | T. N. Khoshoo | 
| 1990 | Prem Narain | 
| 1991 | Rajendra Singh Paroda | 
| 1991 | Y. L. Nene | 
| 1992 | Anupam Verma | 
| 1992 | Krishna Lal Chadha | 
| 1993 | M. R. Sethuraj | 
| 1993 | R. B. Sawhney | 
| 1994 | S. N. Dwivedi | 
| 1994 | E. A. Siddiq | 
| 1995 | M. S. Swaminathan | 
| 1996 | A. N. Purohit | 
| 1997 | S. L. Mehta | 
| 1997 | H. Sekhar Shetty | 
| 1998 | A. Seetharam | 
| 1999 | R. P. Sharma | 
| 2000 | Sushil Kumar (biologist) | 
| 2001 | S. Nagarajan | 
| 2002-2003 | Motilal Madan | 
| 2006-2007 | Baldev Singh Dhillon | 
| 2008-2009 | Deepak Pental | 
| 2010-2011 | Akhilesh Kumar Tyagi | 
| 2012 | Vijay Pal Singh | 
| 2014 | H.S. Gupta | 
| 2015 | Subanna Ayyappan | 
Biotechnology
Source: Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation
| Year | Recipient | 
|---|---|
| 1985 | G. Padmanabhan | 
| 1986 | K. K. G. Menon | 
| 1986 | H. Y. Mohan Ram | 
| 1988 | V. Jagannathan | 
| 1989 | V. Sasisekharan | 
| 1989 | Sipra Guha-Mukherji | 
| 1990 | Indira Nath | 
| 1990 | Jyotimoy Das | 
| 1991 | S. Ramachandran | 
| 1992 | A. K. Sharma | 
| 1993 | Avadhesha Surolia | 
| 1993 | Obaid Siddiqui | 
| 1994 | C. R. Bhatia | 
| 1994 | H. K. Das | 
| 1995 | Asis Datta | 
| 1995 | Brahm Shanker Srivastava | 
| 1996 | P. K. Mehta | 
| 1996 | Lalji Singh | 
| 1997 | S. K. Basu | 
| 1997 | D. Balasubramanian | 
| 1998 | Manju Sharma | 
| 1999 | C. M. Gupta | 
| 2000 | M. Vijayan | 
| 2001 | Partha P. Majumder | 
| 2002-03 | Virander Singh Chauhan | 
| 2002-03 | M. R. S. Rao | 
| 2004-05 | Seyed E. Hasnain | 
| 2004-05 | J. Gowrishankar | 
| 2008-09 | Samir K. Brahmachari | 
| 2010-11 | Kanury V. S. Rao | 
| 2012 | Navin Khanna | 
| 2014 | Chandrima Shaha | 
| 2015 | M. K. Bhan | 
|2020 || Asad Ullah Khan |}
Electronics and Information Technology
Source: Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation
| Year | Recipient | 
|---|---|
| 1985 | M. G. K. Menon | 
| 1986 | P. V. S. Rao | 
| 1987 | A. P. Mitra | 
| 1988 | Narasimhan | 
| 1989 | N. Seshagiri | 
| 1990 | S. Ramani | 
| 1993 | Sam Pitroda | 
| 1993 | V. Rajaraman | 
| 1994 | G. M. Cleetus | 
| 1994 | Surendra Prasad | 
| 1995 | B. L. Deekshatulu | 
| 1995 | Neelakanthan | 
| 1996 | Sudhansu Datta Majumdar | 
| 1997 | Surendra Pal | 
| 1998 | Shankar K. Pal | 
| 1999 | K. G. Narayanan | 
| 2000 | Vijay P. Bhatkar | 
| 2001 | Lalit Mohan Patnaik | 
| 2002-03 | Amitava Sen Gupta | 
| 2004-05 | Ashok Jhunjhunwala | 
| 2006-07 | V. Narayana Rao | 
| 2008-09 | Shiban Kishen Koul | 
| 2011 | Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri | 
| 2013 | Bishnu P. Pal | 
| 2014 | Subrat Kar | 
| 2015 | Ajoy Kumar Ghatak | 
| 2016 | Manav Bhatnagar | 
| 2017 | Anirban Pathak [9] | 
| 2020 | Swades De [10] | 
Engineering including Energy and Aerospace
Source: Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation
| Year | Recipient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Raja Ramanna | |
| 1985 | M. M. Sharma | |
| 1985 | Satish Dhawan | |
| 1985 | S. Roy Choudhary | |
| 1986 | Narla Tata Rao | |
| 1986 | S. Varadarajan | |
| 1986 | L. K. Doraiswamy | |
| 1986 | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | |
| 1987 | Amulya Kumar N. Reddy | |
| 1987 | S. C. Dutta Roy | |
| 1987 | R. M. Vasagam | |
| 1987 | George Joseph | |
| 1988 | P. R. Roy | |
| 1988 | R. K. Bhandari | |
| 1988 | K. Kasturirangan | |
| 1989 | V. S. Arunachalam | |
| 1989 | K. L. Chopra | |
| 1989 | J. C. Bhattacharya | |
| 1989 | P. Banerji | |
| 1990 | N. B. Prasad | |
| 1990 | Keki Hormusji Gharda | |
| 1990 | R. A. Mashelkar | |
| 1990 | M. A. Ramaswamy | |
| 1991 | Rajinder Kumar | |
| 1991 | T. K. Bose | |
| 1992 | M. S. Vasudeva | |
| 1992 | Paul Ratnasamy | |
| 1992 | P. Ramachandran | |
| 1992 | R. Balakrishnan | |
| 1993 | P. Rama Rao | |
| 1993 | Udupi Ramachandra Rao | |
| 1994 | H. S. Mukunda | |
| 1994 | A. V. Rama Rao | |
| 1994 | K. K. Mahajan | |
| 1995 | Jyoti Parikh | |
| 1995 | S. Sivaram | |
| 1995 | G. Madhavan Nair | |
| 1995 | Prem Shanker Goel | |
| 1996 | M. R. Srinivasan | |
| 1996 | T. S. R. Prasada Rao | |
| 1996 | C. G. Krishnadas Nair | |
| 1997 | K. S. Narasimhan | |
| 1997 | K. N. Shankara | |
| 1998 | Patcha Ramachandra Rao | |
| 1999 | Placid Rodrigues | |
| 2000 | Thirumalachari Ramasami | |
| 2001 | Suhas Pandurang Sukhatme | |
| 2002-03 | E. Sreedharan | |
| 2004-05 | Prem Chand Pandey | |
| 2006-07 | Kota Harinarayana | |
| 2008-09 | Narinder Kumar Gupta | |
| 2011 | Baldev Raj | |
| 2013 | G. Sundararajan | |
| 2014 | Bhim Singh | |
| 2015 | Sneh Anand | |
| 2019 | Devang Vipin Khakhar | 
Health and Medical Sciences
Source: Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation
| Year | Recipient | 
|---|---|
| 1985 | Vinod Prakash Sharma | 
| 1985 | P. K. Rajagopalan | 
| 1986 | M. S. Valiathan | 
| 1987 | Prakash Narain Tandon | 
| 1988 | M. G. Deo | 
| 1989 | A. N. Malaviya | 
| 1990 | B. N. Dhawan | 
| 1990 | J. S. Guleria | 
| 1991 | Madan Mohan | 
| 1991 | U. C. Chaturvedi | 
| 1992 | Fali S. Mehta | 
| 1992 | S. K. Kacker | 
| 1994 | Asha Mathur | 
| 1995 | V. Ramalingaswami | 
| 1995 | V. I. Mathan | 
| 1997 | Kalyan Banerji | 
| 1997 | Ved Prakash Kamboj | 
| 1995 | N. K. Ganguly | 
| 1997 | Sneh Bhargava | 
| 1998 | Gourie Devi | 
| 1999 | Geeta Talukder | 
| 2000 | Narinder Kumar Mehra | 
| 2001 | Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath | 
| 2002-2003 | A. S. Paintal | 
| 2004-2005 | Pradeep Seth | 
| 2006-2007 | Shiv Kumar Sarin | 
| 2008-2009 | Jitendra Nath Pande | 
| 2011 | Viswa Mohan Katoch | 
| 2013 | Girish Sahni | 
| 2014 | Balram Bhargava | 
| 2015 | Nikhil Tandon | 
| 2018 | Rohit Srivastava | 
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation for Science & Technology". National Academy Science Letters. 37 (5): 483–486. October 2014. doi:10.1007/s40009-014-0281-0. S2CID 189869935.
- 1 2 "OPBF Award". OPBF. 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
- 1 2 3 "OPBF profile". OPBF. 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
- ↑ "Agriculture". Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation. 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
- ↑ "Biotechnology". Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation. 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
- ↑ "E and IT". Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation. 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
- ↑ "Engineering". Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation. 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
- ↑ "Medicine". Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation. 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
- ↑ "Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Award".
- ↑ "IIT Delhi, Hauz Khas, Delhi (2021)".















