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30 SEPTEMBER 2006 273 FICCI Award CIMAP gets FICCI Award for Rural Development W W HE Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CIMAP), Lucknow, has Tbeen awarded the prestigious FICCI Award for the year 2004-2005, in the area of Rural Development. The award was presented to the CIMAP Director, Dr S. P. S. Khanuja by Hon’ble Prime Minister of India Dr Manmohan Singh at a function of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) held at Vigyan Bhawan. The award, consisting of a shield and a certificate, has been given to CIMAP for its outstanding work towards catalyzing rural employment and income enhancement through medicinal and aromatic plants based entrepreneurship with special reference to CIMAP’s ‘Biovillage mission’ approach of technological intervention. 274 CSIR NEWS SSB Prize-winners SHANTI SWARUP BHATNAGAR PRIZE-WINNERS FOR 2006 HIRTEEN scientists have been selected for 2006 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) Prize for Science and Technology for the year 2006. These will be presented by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India Tshortly. The winners along with the citations are: CITATIONS contributions in developing temperature regional scale Biological Sciences supercapacitors and nano- metamorphism. bimetallics and their novel applica- Dr Vinod Bhakuni tions. Engineering Sciences Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow Dr K George Thomas Dr Ashish Lele Regional Research Laboratory, Dr Bhakuni has made outstanding National Chemical Laboratory, Thiruvananthapuram contributions to our understanding Pune the role of noncatalytic structural Dr Thomas has made significant Dr Lele has made pioneering domains and ionic interactions in contributions to photoresponsive contributions by probing micro and regulating the functional activity of nanomaterials and their mesostructure of polymeric the catalytic domains in proteins applications. materials and relating it to the macroscopic dynamical and Dr Rajesh Sudhir Gokhale Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean National Institute of Immunology, equilibrium properties using a New Delhi & Planetary Sciences combination of theory and experiments. Dr Gokhale’s work has discovered Dr Gufran-ullah Beig a new family of long-chain fatty acyl- Indian Institute of Tropical Dr Sanjay Mittal AMP ligases (FAALs) and has also Meteorology, Pune Indian Institute of Technology, elegantly elucidated ‘biochemical Kanpur crosstalk’ between fatty acid Dr Beig has made significant synthases and polyketide synthases, contributions related to middle and Dr Mittal has made fundamental which produce diverse unusual upper atmospheric response to contributions to the understanding lipids of the complex cell wall of anthropogenic emissions of green of flow instabilities in the presence Mycobacterium tuberculosis. His house gases. His prediction of of fluid-structure interactions, studies have significantly expanded mesospheric cooling by 2 to 4k/ specially when structure is flexible our understanding of how pathogens decade has serious future and interactions are highly dynamic evolve their gene products to implications. and unsteady. generate metabolic diversity. Dr Pulak Sengupta Mathematical Sciences Chemical Sciences Jadavpur University, Kolkata Dr Sengupta has made Dr Vikraman Balaji Dr Srinivasan Sampath fundamental contributions to an Chennai Mathematical Institute, Indian Institute of Science, understanding of grain-scale Siruseri Bangalore reaction mechanism and its Dr Balaji has made significant Dr Sampath has made outstanding application to ultra-high contributions to moduli problems of 30 SEPTEMBER 2006 275 SSB Prize-winners/MoUs principal bundles over algebric quantum theory modifies the varieties, in particular on the Medical Sciences entropy of black holes and for his Uhlenbeck-Yau compactification of pioneering studies on the Moduli Spaces of µ-semistable Dr Virender Singh Sangwan supersymmetric solitons in string bundles. Further his work on L V Prasad Eye Institute, theory. holonomy groups for stable bundles Hyderabad on surfaces is significant. Dr Sangwan has made outstanding Dr Sanjay Puri contribution to the application of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Dr Indranil Biswas limbal stem cell biology to restore New Delhi Tata Institute of Fundamental vision to victims of corneal injury. Dr Puri has made outstanding Research, Mumbai contribution to understanding Dr Biswas is a very productive Physical Sciences problems in nonequilibrium mathematician who contributed statistical physics, such as kinetics significantly to algebric geometry, Dr Atish Dabholkar of phase ordering, including the centering around moduli problems effects of confined geometries, as Tata Institute of Fundamental of vector bundles. He is also an well as the role of defects in phase Research, Mumbai acknowledged expert on moduli of separation dynamics. parabolic bundles. Dr Dabholkar has established how The SSB Prizes are given to scientists for their outstanding scientific contributions made primarily in India during the last five years preceding the year of the Prize. Those who are not more than 45 years of age, as reckoned on 31 December of the year preceding the year of the Prize, are eligible. The SSB Prize comprises a citation, a plaque and a cash award of Rs 2,00,000. CRRI signs MoU with AITS HE Central Road Research Institute (CRRI), New Delhi and Association for Intelligent Transport System (AITS), TNew Delhi, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), to collaborate towards the development of a National ITS Centre of Excellence (NITS) and undertake research, consultancy development and knowledge dissemination in the field. While CRRI is a premier institute for road research, AITS is a premier organization for development of Intelligent Transport System (ITS) as well as for undertaking user-oriented research. The MoU was signed by Dr P. K. Nanda, Director, CRRI and Shri Amitabh Bajpai, President, AITS . Dr P.K. Nanda, Director, CRRI, and Shri Manoj Kawatra, Director, AITS, exchanging the MoU documents 276 CSIR NEWS MoUs CSMCRI signs MoU with Archean Chemical Industries for manufacture of potash HE Central with high bromine Salt & Marine atom efficiency. T Chemicals Aforesaid processes are Research Institute protected by half a (CSMCRI), dozen US patents Bhavnagar, has signed granted recently and an MoU worth Rs 1.09 related PCT and crore on 21 July 2006 Indian patent applica- with M/s Archean tions have been also Chemical Industries, filed. Additionally, two owner of Jakhau Salt more patent applica- Works in Kutch, for tions on the improved Dr Pushpito K Ghosh, Director, CSMCRI, and Shri P B Anandam, CMD, Archean licensing the know how Group of Industries, Chennai, exchanging the agreement documents magnesia process have for production of been filed. sulphate of potash The total techno- (SOP) fertilizer, refractory grade applications. CSMCRI has logy licensing fee is Rs 1.09 crore. magnesia and eco-friendly additionally developed a process to The license is being given on brominating reagent in an produce magnesia of up to 99% non-exclusive basis and annual integrated manner. purity, which would be of interest royalty is additionally payable. A Jakhau Salt Works, which is for magnesium metal production and foreign consultant from Salt Lake reputed to produce the finest quality other high-end applications. The City, USA, with experience in the export grade salt in India, now eco-friendly brominating reagent area of large marine chemicals intends to manufacture these bypasses the production of liquid works, is being appointed by the products in Greater Rann of Kutch bromine and yet is capable of doing party to undertake detailed where natural salt bitterns are many of the commer-cially engineering based on CSMCRI available in abundance. important bromination reactions process. Presently, India’s annual import of muriate of potash fertilizer (MOP) Corrigendum is around three million tonnes. SOP 3 MW S-band Magnetron is a superior fertilizer to MOP and it will be produced at a competitive In the above news item published on p 227 of CSIR News, 15 cost using CSMCRI technology. August 2006, please note: A glass version of water-cooled The magnesia produced will be of mechanically tunable unpackaged pulse magnetron, with peak more than 95% purity, and with low power 3 MW in S-band, has been developed by the Central boron content. The Central Glass & Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI), Ceramic Research Institute Pilani, [and not National Institute of Oceanograophy (NIO), (CGCRI), Kolkata, has evaluated performance of the magnesia Goa, as reported] in collaboration with Centre for Advanced prepared by CSMCRI and found it Technology, Indore. quite suitable in refractory The error is very much regretted. 30 SEPTEMBER 2006 277 R&D Highlights NIO participates in Indo-Norwegian Programme on Shrimp Aquaculture in Sustainable Manner OND-based coastal for better utilization of nutrients. aquaculture, Adoption of these technologies P particularly of shrimps, will result in increasing the has gained considerable yields by about 20-25% for two momentum in India due to reasons: Due to the optimal quick r eturns from both national environmental conditions in the and international markets. pond during the production Today, India occupies fourth cycle and the increased position amongst the major phytoplankton production due to shrimp farming countries in the re-suspension of available world. The past decade nutrients. The HOBAS aerator witnessed a remarkable increase also showed a strong ability and in annual