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Indian National Science Academy Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi - 110002 INDIAN NATIONAL SCIENCE ACADEMY BAHADUR SHAH ZAFAR MARG, NEW DELHI - 110002 Minutes of the 85th Anniversary General Meeting of the Indian National Science Academy held on 16-18 December, 2019 at CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Goa. The following Fellows were present: Professor Ajay K Sood, President, INSA Professor Anurag Sharma, Vice-President (Fellowship Affairs) Professor JP Khurana, Vice-President (International Affairs) Professor Gadadhar Misra, Vice-President (Informatics and Publications) Professor AK Singhvi, Vice-President (Science & Society) Dr Anurag Agrawal Professor Madhoolika Agrawal Professor SK Apte Professor S Baskaran Professor Nita Bhandari Professor SV Bhat Professor Anil K Bhatnagar Professor Alok Bhattacharya Professor NM Bujurke Professor Supriya Chakraborty Professor Mamta Chawla-Sarkar Professor BM Choudary Professor Debashish Chowdhury Professor GP Dutta Professor Shankar Prasad Das Professor Sushanta Dattagupta Professor KRK Easwaran Professor SR Gadre Professor Lalit C Garg Professor Swapan K Ghosh Professor KC Gupta Professor PK Gupta Professor HA Haider Professor RV Jasra Professor Bhavnath Jha Professor AK Kamra Professor M Lakshmi Kantam Professor Tarun Kant Professor Sanjeev Khosla Professor Paturu Kondaiah Professor M Krishnamurthy Professor Tapas K Kundu Professor Sandeep Kunnath Dr Pawan Malhotra Professor Mahitosh Mandal Professor G Marimuthu Professor Neelesh B Mehta 1 Professor Parthasarathi Mitra Professor NK Mondal Professor ML Munjal Professor Ritabrata Munshi Professor R Nagaraj Professor Utpal Nath Professor J Padmanabhan Professor Veena K Parnaik Professor Sankar K Pal Dr Sneh Lata Singla-Pareek Professor G Parthasarathy Professor Manoj Prasad Professor PD Prasada Rao Professor AS Raghavendra Rao Professor K Ramasubramanian Professor AJ Rao Professor Ashit Baran Roy Professor Probir Roy Professor M Sabu Professor SK Saidapur Professor PV Sane Professor S Sankararaman Professor Utpal Sarkar Dr Chandrima Shaha Professor Shyam Lal Professor SK Singh Professor Yashwant Singh Professor Subrata Sinha Professor Kandasamy Subramanian Professor BC Tripathy Professor Prabodh K Trivedi Professor KC Upadhyaya Professor RK Varshney Professor MK Verma Professor MR Wani Professor Graner Andreas, Foreign Fellow In addition to the above Fellows who participated in the formal AGM, the following Fellows and other scientists (non Fellows) also attended different sessions during 16-18 December, 2019: Fellows: Professors V Chandrasekhar, Manju Bansal, Madhu Dikshit, Chanda Jayant Jog, Rentala Madhubala, HK Majumder, R Narasimhan, Sourav Pal, GP Pandey, SK Satheesh, Abhijit Sen, Shobhona Sharma, Yashwant Singh, GD Yadav, GC Mishra, Gaiti Hasan, Tom S Blundell, PK Garg, CNR Rao, Shekhar Mande, Srivari Chandrasekhar, Santosh Kapuria, Ashok Jhunjunwala, S Sivaram, LS Shashidhara, SC Lakhotia, Amitabh Joshi, Pankaj S Joshi, MS Raghunathan, Rajeeva Karandikar, R Balasubramaniam, Raman Parimala, RK Kohli, Gagandeep Kang, Rajesh S Gokhale, VM Katoch, Shinjini Bhatnagar, Anil K. Bhowmick, PK Chattaraj, Kedar Damle, D Dash, Amit Ghosh, Aswini Ghosh, Subrata Ghosh, AK Giri, H Ila, H Junjappa, Bhavanath Jha Arun K Joshi, Dinakar Kanjilal, Anil Kumar, AC Mishra, Ashwini Nangia, SS Rai, AV Rama Rao, Rajender 2 Sangwan, Neelam Sangwan, Manmohan Sarin, Kalidas Sen, Maya Shankar Singh and BC Sinha. Other scientists (Non-Fellows) : Shri R Gopalakrishnan, Drs Jitendra Jadhav, Indranil Chattoraj, Anjan Ray, Gitanjali Yadav, Felix Blast, Bhushan Patwardhan, Arvind A, R Ramanujam, Andre Krolak, Ken-ichi Nakao, KP Singh, Amber Habib, MS Balasubramaniam, JR Bhatt, Asad Rahmani, Chandish R Ballal, Anurudh K Singh, K Srinath Reddy and Manish Gupta. During the Anniversary Meeting (16-18 December 2019) the following eight symposia, one award lecture, two public lectures and the anniversary address by President, INSA were organized: The inaugural session : Professor Sunil K Singh, FNA, Director, CSIR-NIO, Goa welcomed the participants and expressed his gratitude for holding this important event in his institution. He presented a brief overview on history and research activities of the institute. Opening remarks were given by Professor AK Sood, President, INSA and Dr Shekhar Mande, FNA, DG, CSIR. Professor AK Singhvi made a brief presentation of the entire 3-day programme. At this stage, President, INSA released a publication on Biomaterials Science and Implants : Status, Challenges and Recommendations by Dr Bikramajit Basu. In addition, Meghnad Saha, his Science and Persona through Selected Letters and Writings was also released. The vote of thanks were presented by Professor Singhvi. The inauguration was followed by the Presidential address on Science Without Borders by Professor AK Sood, President, INSA (Summary of the address and brief profile is given at Annexure-I, p/ 9) Symposium 1 : Science at CSIR- Future Outlook by Dr Shekhar Mande, FNA Symposium 2 : Science of Indias’ Tomorrow by Professor AK Singhvi, FNA Symposium 3 : Future Science Education and Research : What India Needs to do by Professors SC Lakhotia, FNA and Amitabh Joshi, FNA Symposium 4 : Black Hole Physics by Professor Pankaj S Joshi, FNA Symposium 5 : Mathematics and Society by Professor Gadadhar Misra, FNA Symposium 6 : Biodiversity : Issues Science and Challenges by Professor RK Kohli, FNA Symposium 7 : Future of Health Care by Drs Gagandeep Kang, FNA and Anurag Agarwal, FNA Symposium 8 : Ethical and Scientific Dimensions of Treatment of Rare and Incurable Diseases by Professors Alok Bhattacharya, FNA and VM Katoch, FNA (Summaries of the talks and the brief profile of the speakers are attached at Annexure-II, p/ 10-65) 3 INSA Award Lecture : Professor TS Blundell, Foreign Fellow delivered the PMS Blackett Memorial Lecture (2019) on Structural Biology, Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery: Fighting the Emergence of Resistance in Cancer and Mycobacterial Infections (Summary of the lecture and brief profile of the speaker is given at Annexure-III, p/ 66-67) Public Lecture : Bharat Ratna Professor CNR Rao, FNA delivered the Public Lecture on Climbing the Limitless Ladder of Excellence (Summary of the lecture and brief profile of the speaker is given at Annexure-IV, p/ 68) Shri R Gopalakrishnan, former Director, Tata Sons, Distinguished Professor, IIT Kharagpur delivered the Evening Lecture on Lessons and Reflections: The Science of Business and the Business of Science (Summary of the lecture and brief profile of the speaker is given at Annexure-V, p/ 69) Anniversary General Meeting 1. Condolence at the passing away of the distinguished Fellows and Foreign Fellow: The sad demise of Professors Anand Swarup Arya, Coluthur Gopalan, Sunil Kumar Mukerjee, Nurani Sivaramakrishna Narasimhan, Pran Nath Pandita, Sishta Venkata Seetharama Shastry, Badanaval Venkata Sreekantan, Nekkalapudi Chinna Subrahmanyam, Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan, Fellows and Professors Murray Gell-Mann, Michael G Rossmann, Ahmed Hassan Zewail, Foreign Fellows was reported. The obituary notes were read by the President, INSA and all those present stood in silence for a minute as a mark of respect to the deceased. 2. Confirmation of minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 26 July, 2019. The minutes of the General Body Meeting held on 26 July, 2019 were read by Professor Anurag Sharma, Vice-President, INSA. These minutes were already uploaded on INSA website. No comments were received. Thereafter, the minutes were confirmed. 3. Announcement of the award of the General Medal / Lecture due for the year 2020. Professor Anurag Sharma announced the name of Professor RA Mashelkar, past President, INSA for the INSA Medal for Promotion and Service to Science (2020) and Dr Madhu Dikshit, FNA for Daulat Singh Kothari Memorial Lecture. The Fellows present approved the names. 4. Announcement of name of recipients for Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Lecture for the year 2020. Professor Anurag Sharma announced the names of Professors Sriram R Ramaswamy, FNA in Physical Sciences and NR Jagannathan, FNA in Biological Sciences. The Fellows present approved the names. 4 5. Announcement of name of recipient for Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Visiting Fellowship for the year 2019. Professor Anurag Sharma announced the name of Professor JP Khurana, FNA for Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Visiting Fellowship for the year 2019. The Fellows present approved the name. 6. Announcement of the award of the Indira Gandhi Prize for Popularization of Science for the year 2020. Professor Anurag Sharma announced the names of the awardees of Indira Gandhi Prize for Popularization of Science - 2020 as follows: a) Science popularization efforts in English language by a career media personnel i. Dr Manoj Kumar Patairiya, Director, NISCAIR, New Delhi ii. Shri Hari Pulakkat, F 902, Purva Venezia, Yelahanka New Town, Bengaluru b) Science popularization efforts in English language by a career scientist i. Dr Vinay Baburao Kamble, 16 Aangan Apartments, Near JL Commerce College, Vastrapur, Ahmedabad c) Science popularization efforts in any language other than English either by a career media personnel or a career scientist i. Shri Anant Pandurang Deshpande, B-5, Jalaram Jyot, VB Lane, Ghatkopar, Mumbai ii. Professor R Ramanujam, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, CIT Campus, Chennai The Fellows present approved the names. 7. To read as required under Rule 40(c) the name of nominees for election as INSA Fellow from 11 July, 2019 to 25 November, 2019. Professor Anurag Sharma read the names of those whose nominations
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