The State Government on Monday announced the names of 13 scientists working in and outside Odisha for various categories of awards and honours for the year 2012 in the filed of science and technology.
While former IIT Bhubaneswar director Prof Dr Ganapati Panda would be honoured with the Biju Patnaik Award for Scientific Excellence for his significant research in engineering and technology, Prof Sushil Kumar Dutta (life Science) of Indian Institute of Science (IIS), Bangalore, Dr Birendra Kumar Mohapatra (Physical Science), chief scientist CISR-IMMT, Bhubaneswar, Prof Sanghamitra Mohanty, Vice Chancellor of North Odisha University and CISR senior scientist Dr Ajit Kumar Sasani would receive the Samanta Chandrasekhar Award.
Similarly, Banikalyan Swain, senior Research Fellow, CIFA (life Science), Dr Diptiprakasani Das, junior scientist, CSIR-IMMT (Physical Science) and Dr Punyapriya Mishra (Mechanical Engineering) of VSS Engineering College will receive Young Scientist Award.
Besides, State Health and Family Welfare Department Deputy Director Purabi Mohanty (general category) and retired headmistress Dr Jyotirmayee Mohanty would be felicitated with Pranakrushna Parija Janapriya Bigyan Puraskar.
Besides, former Utkal University Vice Chancellor Prof Sanatan Acharya, retired Professor Bhabendra Kumar Patnaik and retired engineer-in-chief Gobindra Chandra Sahu would also be felicitated at the function.
The awardees would be felicitated at a special function of the Odisha Bigyan Akademi shortly, sources said.