Awards and Recognitions

Recognition:

  1. Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc)-2024
  2. Editorial Board member of the peer-reviewed international journal PLOS Climate(since 2022).
  3. Member of South Asia Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (SAADRI)- Since 2021
  4. Member of India Universities and Institutions Network for Disaster Risk Reduction (IUINDRR-NIDM)- Since 2021.
  5. Elected as MNASc (Member, The National Academy of Sciences, India)-2018
  6. Expert Member Global Technology Watch Groupon Climate Change and Agriculture, TIFAC, DST, Govt. of India-(2017-19)
  7. Member of the Expert Committee to design and draft the Course contents of -M.Sc./M.Tech. program in Rural Technology- reg. Kamataka State Rural Development and Panchayat Raj University Act,2016 as notified in Part-IVA No. 958 of Extraordinary Gazette, dated 26-07-2016.
  8. Nehru-Fulbright Fellow –Environmental Leadership (2011) (http://fulbright.state.gov/). At the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of California-Davis to work on ‘Carbon sequestration and GHG management under changing climate using simulation modelling approaches. Mentor: Prof Johan Six.
  9. Member of the Task Force on convergence of programmes/schemes with National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India (2008).
  10. Lead Fellow, India (2008) (www.lead.org)
  11. Research team member, Inter Academy Council (IAC), Hague, The Netherlands, special project on Role of S & T in African Agriculture.
  12. Invited Panel Speaker in the 95th Indian Science Congress, Vizag.
  13. Awarded the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Trust Scholarship for PhD thesis research.
  14. Member Assam State Academic Committee for National Children Science Congress (2014)
  15. Member Assam State Academic Committee for National Children Science Congress (2016)

Award:

2023 RESSUMMIT-2047 Springer Nature Award for the paper on “Blue-Green Infrastructure: Part of the future planning for Indian Megacities”(19.01.2023).
2011 2nd best poster in the International Conference on Preparing Agriculture for Climate Change, Feb 6-8, 2011, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India.
1990 Jindal Merit Scholarship in Agriculture
1980 National Merit Scholarship