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On the eve of the 77th Republic Day, President Draupadi Murmu announced the conferment of 131 Padma awards recognising distinguished work crossed fields ranging from creation and societal enactment to subject and medicine. The list, released by the Ministry of Home Affairs, comprises 5 Padma Vibhushan, 13 Padma Bhushan, and 113 Padma Shri awardees.
The laureates see 8 individuals dedicated to agriculture, carnal husbandry, and harvest sciences. While immoderate are celebrated academicians who person helmed India’s premier cultivation universities, others are grassroots innovators moving connected the ground.
Ashok Kumar Singh is simply a works geneticist and erstwhile manager of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), champion known for his enactment processing high-yielding Basmati atom varieties. His probe has focused connected integrating molecular breeding with accepted methods to amended atom prime and illness resistance.
Gopalji Trivedi is an cultivation acquisition seasoned and erstwhile vice-chancellor of the Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University successful Pusa, Bihar. He helped signifier cultivation pedagogy successful the portion and championed the usage of exertion to empower farmers successful Bihar’s unsocial agro-climatic zones.
K. Ramasamy is an cultivation idiosyncratic who served arsenic the vice-chancellor of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. He played an important relation successful modernising cultivation acquisition successful Tamil Nadu and served connected assorted nationalist committees for the ICAR and UGC.
Prem Lal Gautam is presently the chancellor of Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University and a noted geneticist and works breeder. He antecedently served arsenic the Deputy Director General (Crop Science) astatine ICAR and is credited with processing much than 12 improved harvest varieties, including wheat and foxtail millet.
Jogesh Deuri is simply a sericulture adept and presently the Director of Sericulture for the Bodoland Territorial Council. He’s recognised for his enactment successful promoting ‘Eri’ silk farming successful Assam — a method of ‘nonviolent’ silk breeding. He besides helped modernise accepted rearing methods to make incomes for agrarian younker and tribal communities successful Kokrajhar district.
Shrirang Devaba Lad hails from Maharashtra and has been recognised for his work to agriculture successful the State, apt representing the assemblage of progressive farmers driving innovation astatine the tract level.
The past 2 laureates, Rama Reddy Mamidi and Raghupat Singh, person been awarded posthumously. Mr. Reddy was a towering fig successful the cooperative question and founded the Co-operative Development Foundation and championed the Mulukanoor exemplary to empower agrarian communities done democratically managed dairy and recognition cooperatives successful Telangana. Mr. Singh has been recognised for his contributions to grassroots agriculture successful Uttar Pradesh.
Beyond agriculture, the ‘Science and Engineering’ class features a divers group. A.E. Muthunayagam was an designer of ISRO’s liquid propulsion systems. Former DRDO idiosyncratic Chandramouli Gaddamanugu spent much than 3 decades starring the improvement of the Akash rocket system. Juzer Vasi from IIT Bombay has been honored for his enactment successful star photovoltaics.
The database besides includes IIT-Madras manager and SHAKTI microprocessor developer V. Kamakoti; elder CSIR-CCMB idiosyncratic Kumarasamy Thangaraj, renowned for his enactment successful colonisation genetics; and Praveen Kumar, an IIT-Mandi researcher processing AI-based early-warning systems for landslides successful the Himalaya. Rounding retired the database are Krishnamurty Balasubramanian for his enactment successful materials subject astatine the Nonferrous Materials Technology Development Centre.
The sole pistillate connected the ‘Science and Engineering’ list, Shubha V. Iyengar, has been feted for her enactment astatine the intersection of chemistry, materials science, and aeronautical engineering.
