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The Lifetime Achievement Award instituted by the Karnataka Science and Technology Academy (KSTA) was awarded to 2 distinguished elder scientists connected Tuesday.
The Prof. C.N.R. Rao – KSTA Lifetime Achievement Award was fixed to Dr. Ramakrishna, idiosyncratic and erstwhile manager of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), successful designation of his immense publication to the tract of Science and Technology. The awardee gets ₹2 lakh worthy golden medal and ₹1 lakh cash.
The KSTA Lifetime Achievement Award successful Science Communication successful Kannada (2023) was conferred upon Sreemathi Hariprasad, erstwhile idiosyncratic astatine CFTRI, for her exceptional work successful popularizing Science, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, and Medicine (STEAM) successful the Kannada language. The awardee gets ₹1 lakh worthy golden medal and ₹75,000 cash.
The Fellow of KSTA honour to recognise the contributions of academicians, researchers, engineers, and technologists from world institutions and industries crossed assorted fields of Science and Technology, was besides fixed connected the occasion. This favoritism has been awarded since 2021 and for the twelvemonth 2023, a full of 33 achievers were selected.
Minister for Science and Technology N.S. Boseraju, who presented the awards, said that the State authorities is committed to the broad improvement of the Science and Technology assemblage successful the State. “By providing further indispensable enactment to the KSTA successful the coming days, we volition signifier it into a exemplary instauration for the full country,” helium said.
The Minister added that cultivating a technological temper and rational reasoning among students and the younker is the urgent request of the hour. “Research and innovations should not beryllium constricted to laboratories; their benefits indispensable scope the past idiosyncratic successful society. Such programmes are inspiring successful bridging the spread betwixt subject and society,” the Minister said.
