Awards

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2024

• Shine Award  – As Best People Manager to Dr Ramesh Singh

• Shine Award – As Mentor of the Year to Dr Gajanan Sawargaonkar

• Exceptional Scientific Article – ICRISAT Honors Dr Rajesh, Dr Gajanan, Dr Santosh, Dr Vinod, Dr Pushpajeet, Dr Ramesh, Dr Moses and Dr ML Jat for innovative bio-pyrolytic method for efficient biochar production from maize and pigeonpea stalks and their characterization

• Outstanding Partnership Award – ICRISAT Honors Dr Gajanan, Dr Rohan, Dr Prasad, Dr Aviraj, Dr Pushpajeet, Dr Rajesh, Dr Ramesh and Dr ML Jat for Odisha Livelihood Mission(OLM), Department of Mission Shakti, Govt of Odisha

• Outstanding Scientific Article – ICRISAT Honors Dr Naveen, Dr Kaushal Garg, Dr Venkataradha, Dr Anantha KH, Dr Ramesh Singh, Dr ML Jat and Dr Bhabani Das for Applicability of calibrated Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy models Across Spatial and Temporal Boundaries

2023

• UNDP Mahatma Award for Biodiversity – recognized ICRISAT for its work in the Bundelkhand region of India

• Science Award – ICRISAT Honors Dr Kaushal Garg First Grant from a New Donor Award for the Project “Landscape Resource Management for Augmenting Groundwater Recharge and Sustainable Intensification of Farming Systems and Building Resilience for Improved Livelihoods of Smallholder Farmers in Drylands of Maharashtra, India

• Shine Award – for Best Initiative to Dr Aviraj Datta and Mr Hari Om Singh

• Science Award – ICRISAT Honors Dr Aviraj Datta First Grant as Principal Investigator for the Project “Sustainable Valorization of water Hyacinth biomass through aerobic composting as rural enterprise- A Waste to Wealth Initiative

2022

• Bhagirath Samman Award – Government of Uttar Pradesh honoured Dr Ramesh Singh for doubling farmers’ income through natural-resource management in Bundelkhand

• Society for Science of Climate Change and Sustainable Environment – Fellowship Award to Dr Ramesh Singh

• Science Award – ICRISAT Honors Dr Anantha KH, Dr Kaushal Garg, Dr Ramesh Singh, Dr Venkataradha and Dr Sreenath Dixit with Outstanding Scientific Article on “Landscape resource management for sustainable crop intensification”

• Outstanding Partnership Award – to Team IDC for the GIZ–UP–MP–ICRISAT–ICAR collaboration

• First Grant as Principal Investigator – Dr Ramesh Singh for the project “Agro-forestry-based Landscape Resource Conservation”

2021

• Outstanding Scientific Article – ICRISAT Honors Dr Kaushal, Dr Anantha, Dr Sreenath Dixit, Dr Ramesh Singh ,Dr Venkata Radha and Dr SP Wani for Building climate resilience in degraded agricultural landscapes through water management

• Outstanding Partnership Award – ICRISAT Honors Dr Kaushal Garg, Dr Sreenath Dixit, Dr Ramesh Singh, Dr Anantha KH, Dr Venkataradha from ICRISAT, ICAR-CAFRI, ICAR-IGFRI, IIT Kharagpur, KVK, Banda University, BAIF and NGO Partners for ICRISAT-GoUP initiative for Doubling Farmers Income in Bundelkhand region

• Science Award – ICRISAT Honors Dr Anantha KH First Grant from a New Donor Award for the Project “Restoring degraded landscapes for improving livelihood and nutritional security of the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTG) in Odisha