Uttarakhand Governor KK Paul honoured six best researchers for the year 2015 from State universities of Uttarakhand for their excellent research work. They were honoured with the Governor’s Award.
A three-member committee assessed the research work for being awarded. Thee, committee consisted of Dr Mangla Rai ,VC of GB Pant University (chairman of the committee) Prof VK Jain, VC of Doon University and Prof HS Dhami, VC of Kumaon University (KU).
The committee decided upon the parameters of evaluating the research and asked researchers, through widespread publicity, to send in their work. A total of 26 research papers were received which were evaluated by the committee. On the basis of this evaluation, the researchers awarded are –First prize (jointly) to Dr Ramesh Chandra (KU) and Dr Anil Kumar (GBPU). Dr Ramesh Chandra’s research was on Peculiar Stationary EUV wave fronts in eruption of May 2011 while Dr Anil Kumar’s work is on “Genotyping by-Sequencing Analysis for Determining Population Structure of Finger Millet Germplasm of Diverse Origins”
The second position was bagged by the research work of Tarun Belwal of Kumaon University and Alka Singh of Doon University while the third position was given to the work of Ruchi Aggarwal and Veena Pandey (both from GB Pant university). The first second and third position researchers were given Rs 20,000 each, Rs 15,000 each and Rs 10,000 respectively.