The Governor Baby Rani Maurya said that research scholars have an important role in developing Uttarakhand into a prosperous and progressive State. Research scholars should research more on the local problems and challenges.
Research work should be conducted on the issues of organic farming, migration, woman empowerment, folk culture, traditions, folk languages and other untouched aspects of the state. The Governor said this while presenting the Governor’s Research Award 2019 to five research scholars at the Raj Bhawan here on Tuesday.
The governor said that research works should also be conducted in the sphere of higher education to benefit the society. The research should be done in accordance with the motto of ‘lab to land’. Maurya added that quality and uprightness of research work must be maintained. “We should develop such system where scientists and social scientists from other countries may take interest in conducting research work in our universities,” she added.
Secretary to the governor, Ramesh Kumar Sudhanshu said that research work on e-waste management and migration is very beneficial for the State. Suggestions of research scholars will be included in new e-waste management policy. “We have to promote qualitative research work for permanent solution of the problems in the State,” he said.
First prize under the science and technology category was given to Richa Chandel for her work on tapered fed compact UWB MIMO-diversity antenna with dual band-notched characteristic. Second prize was given to AE Kante for his research on development and testing of apricot pit decorticator.
The third prize was jointly given to Prasanjeet Debbarma and Saurabh Gangola. Debbarma did research on selection of potential bacterial strains to develop bacterial consortia for the remediation of e-waste and its in situ implications while Gangola did research on presence of esterase and laccase in Bacillus subtilis facilitates biodegradation and detoxification of cypermethring. Niyati Naudiyal was awarded in the social science category for her research on the future of mountain agriculture amidst continual farm-exit, livelihood diversification and outmigration in the central Himalayan villages.