INDIAN NATIONAL SCIENCE ACADEMY Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi – 110002
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INDIAN NATIONAL SCIENCE ACADEMY Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi – 110002 Minutes of the Virtual Annual General Meeting of the Indian National Science Academy held on 20 October, 2020. The following Fellows were attended the meeting: Professor Chandrima Shaha, President Professor Gaiti Hasan, Vice-President (Fellowship Affairs) Professor V Chandrasekhar, Vice-President (Science Promotion) Professor Jitendra Khurana, Vice-President (International Affairs) Professor AK Singhvi, Vice-President (Science & Society) Professor Subrata Sinha, Vice-President (Resource Management) Professor Tapan Adhya Professor Madhoolika Agrawal Professor Faizan Ahmad Professor Balasubramanian Professor Dhiraj Mohan Banerjee Dr Anirban Basu Professor BV Rajarama Bhat Professor SV Bhat Professor Bimla Buti Professor Praveen Chaddah Professor Supriya Chakraborty Dr SL Chaplot Professor Amitabha Chattopadhyay Professor KL Chopra Professor Arnab Rai Choudhuri Professor Debashish Chowdhury Professor Amitava Das Professor Pijush K Das Professor Somnath Dasgupta Professor VP Dimri Professor Eluvathingal Devassy Jemmis Professor Aswini Ghosh Professor Subrata Ghosh Dr Swapan K Ghosh Dr Ashok Kumar Giri Professor JN Goswami Professor S Gourinath Professor NR Jagannathan Professor Amitabh Joshi Professor VK Pillai Dr VP Kamboj Dr AK Kamra Dr Dinakar Kanjilal Professor Tarun Kant Dr Shyam S Kapoor Professor Santosh Kapuria Professor Gopal Krishna Professor SS Krishnamurthy Professor V Krishnan 1 Professor AN Lahiri Majumder Professor M Lakshmanan Professor Krishan Lal Professor Rentala Madhubala Dr Souvik Maiti Professor Uday Maitra Professor Hemanta Majumder Professor BD Malhotra Professor Mahitosh Mandal Professor Indranil Manna Dr RA Mashelkar Professor Bedangadas Mohanty Professor Rahul Mukerjee Professor Valakunja Nagaraja Professor KS Narayan Professor Janardhan Padmanabhan Professor Sankar K Pal Professor Sourav Pal Professor Mallayan Palaniandavar Dr AB Pandit Professor G Parthasarathy Professor Inder Bir Passi Professor Deepak Pental Professor Gilles Pisier Dr Pradip Professor GVR Prasad Dr Manoj Prasad Professor Agepati Raghavendra Professor MV Rajam Professor Rama Professor TR Ramadas Professor NV Chalapathi Rao Professor MRS Rao Dr T Ramamurthy Professor Saurabh Rindani Professor Krishanu Ray Professor S Sampath Professor Neelam Sangwan Professor RS Sangwan Professor Maithili Sharan Professor Anurag Sharma Professor Ajit Iqbal Singh Professor KP Singh Professor RN Singh Professor Vinod Singh Professor Pete Smith Professor SK Sopory Professor Ajay Kumar Sood Professor Srinivasan Professor Alexei Starobinsky Professor Subeer S Majumdar Professor Qudsia Tahseen Professor PN Takkar Professor SK Tandon Professor Pradeep Kumar Tripathi 2 Professor Rakesh Tuli Professor Jaya S Tyagi Professor Sandeep Verma Professor GD Veerappa Gowda Professor Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath Professor Mohan R Wani Professor GD Yadav At 16.00 hrs – 17.00 hrs INSA Medal for Promotion & Service to Science (2020) lecture on Inclusive Innovation : View from a Personal Lens by Professor RA Mashelkar, FNA was delivered during the Annual General Meeting (see Annexure-I). Annual General Meeting continued… At 17.00 hrs onwards President, INSA welcomed all the Fellows. Thereafter, the regular agenda items were taken up. 1. Condolence at the passing away of the distinguished Fellows. The sad demise of Professors Ramamirtha Jayaraman, Umakant Waman Kenkare, Govind Swarup and Khadg Singh Validya, Fellows of the Academy were reported. The obituary notes were read by the President, INSA and all those who were attending the meeting stood in silence for a minute as a mark of respect to the departed soul. 2. Confirmation of minutes of General Body Meeting held on 7 August, 2020. Professor Gaiti Hasan, Vice-President (Fellowship Affairs) gave a brief overview of the issues discussed in the General Body Meeting of the Academy held on 7 August, 2020. The minutes were, thereafter, confirmed by the members of the general body. 3. Announcement of result of scrutiny of voting papers for election of Officers and Members of the Council for the year 2021. President, INSA thanked Professor Subrata Sinha and Professor JP Khurana who were appointed as scrutineers for counting the e-votes for the election of Fellows, Foreign Fellows and INSA Council for 2021. She also profusely thanked Professor Gadadhar Misra, Vice-President and Mr Dhirendra Tripathi for their support in developing an e-voting portal and conducting the voting process for the election of Fellows, Foreign Fellows and Council during last two years. Professor Gaiti Hasan announced names of those who were elected as members of the Council 2021. The list is attached at Annexure-II. 4. Announcement of result of scrutiny of voting papers for election of Fellows and Foreign Fellows for the year 2021. Professor Gaiti Hasan, Vice-President announced names of those elected as Fellows and Foreign Fellows of INSA and read their citations as per Annexure-III. 3 5. Announcement of name of recipients of the INSA Medal for Young Scientist Award 2020. The names and brief citation of 40 scientists (Annexure-IV) selected as awardee of INSA Medal for Young Scientists 2020 were announced by Professor Gaiti Hasan, Vice-President. 6. Announcement of name of recipient of the INSA Young Historian of Science Award 2020. Professor Gaiti Hasan, Vice-President announced the name of the INSA Young Historian of Science Awardee for the year 2020: Ms. Barsha Ritu Goswami (b 13.02.1988), PhD Scholar, Dept. of Chemistry, Tejpur University, Assam for the significant contributions made by her towards a scientific study on Mahī, a traditional herbal ink of medieval Assam. 7. Announcement of name of recipients of the INSA Teachers Award 2020. Professor Gaiti Hasan, Vice-President announced the names of the 14 outstanding Teachers (Annexure-V) as recipient of the INSA Teachers Award for the year 2020. 8. To inform the Fellows about the creation a Data Cell in INSA. Professor Gaiti Hasan, Vice-President briefed the Fellows that INSA will create a Data Analytics, Data Interpretation and Program Evaluation Cell to assess the impacts of Science Initiatives of INSA / Nation. Council considered and agreed to create a Data Cell in the Academy. It was decided that a small Committee will be constituted to suggest the implementation of this proposal. 9. To inform the Fellows about instituting an award to recognize outstanding contributions in developing / improving new technology for the benefit of the society. Professor Gaiti Hasan, Vice-President informed the Fellows that the Council deliberated on the institution of an award to recognize life time achievements of scientist for developing / improving new technology for the benefit of the society. During the discussion, number of suggestions were proposed by Professor GD Yadav and others regarding streamlining of various INSA awards. It was noted that frequently many awards receive few or no nomination. The members felt the need to review INSA awards. Accordingly, President, INSA proposed that a small committee comprising of Professor GD Yadav and others will be constituted to review all existing 72 awards of INSA (including the above mentioned award). 10. Announcement of names of representatives of Cooperating Academies and the Govt. of India on the Council of INSA for the year 2021. The names of Professors Kunal Ghosh, Madhoolika Agrawal and Sandeep Verma as representatives of the Asiatic Society, the National Academy of Sciences (India) and the Govt. of India, Department of Science & Technology, respectively were announced. It was noted that the nomination of the representative of Indian Science Congress Association is awaited. 4 11. Submission of the list of Fellows corrected up-to-date. Professor Gaiti Hasan, Vice-President informed that the number of Fellows as on 20 October, 2020 stood at 929. A list of Fellows corrected up to date is available at www.insaindia.res.in. 12. To read as required under Rule 40(c) the name of nominees for election as INSA Fellow / Foreign Fellow from 26 June, 2020 to 25 July, 2020. Professor Gaiti Hasan, Vice-President, INSA read the names of those whose nominations were received for election as INSA Fellow and Foreign Fellow. 13. Annual Report of the Academy for the year 2019-20. Professor Gaiti Hasan presented the highlights of the annual report along with the audited annual balance sheet for FY 2019-20. The report have been submitted to DST. 14. Review of work of the Academy by the President, INSA. The highlights of the activities of the Academy in past one year was presented by President, INSA. A brief note is given at Annexure-VI. The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair. _____ 5 Annexure-I Professor RA Mashelkar, FNA, FRS National Research Fellow Inclusive innovation: View from a personal lens The post-pandemic devastation of lives and livelihoods is rapid and massive. Globally, in just over 100 days, around 100 million families plummeted from poverty to extreme poverty, 450 million jobs were lost, 1.6 billion children went out of school, with almost one third without access to online learning due to digital deprivation and inequalities increased sharply. We urgently need the magic of access equality despite income inequality. That means embracing inclusive innovation. The narrative will focus on the personal experience gained during the execution of Anjani Mashelkar Inclusive Innovation Awards as also through the championing globally of the concept of Gandhian Engineering, both