Awards

CSIR launched ‘Diamond Jubilee Invention Award for School Children’ on April 26, the World Intellectual Property Day, in 2002, with the objective to foster scientific temperament, creativity and innovative spirit amongst school children as well as create awareness about IPR (Intellectual Property Rights). The competition was renamed ‘CSIR Innovation Award for School Children’ in 2011.

CSIR Technology Awards were instituted in 1990 to foster and encourage multi-disciplinary in-house team efforts and external interaction for technology development, transfer and commercialization. The ‘Most Significant CSIR Technology of the Five Year Plan Period’ is awarded once in 5 yrs coinciding with the plan period, to such technology which has proven in the market, atleast for 5 yrs. Accordingly, the X plan period technology (ies) will be considered in XII plan period.

CAIRD was initiated by CSIR in 2006 for recognizing and honouring outstanding S&T innovations that have created a paradigm shift and significant impact in transforming the quality of life of the rural people or demonstrated competitive advantage and positive user response, alleviated their drudgery or helped in generation of rural employment in the country and shown a new way of conducting business to achieve social and economic transformation in rural development. Successful S&T innovations that are implemented at ground level thus will be considered.

CSIR instituted the CDJTA, to be given annually, in commemoration of its Diamond Jubilee from the year 2003. This award acknowledges the most outstanding technological innovation that has brought prestige to our nation. It is envisaged that it will become the hallmark for Indian technological excellence in the years to come. The award is given to a technology that is developed in the country by Indian innovators and meets the highest global standards.

CSIR Young Scientist Awards were introduced in 1987, seeking to promote in-house excellence in various fields of science and technology. These awards are for promoting excellence and recognising outstanding contributions made by the young CSIR scientists for their work done primarily in India during the last 5 yrs preceding the year of the Award.

CSIR instituted this Gold Medal in 2004 in the fond memory of Prof. G N Ramachandran, a pioneer of protein chemistry and the founding father of structural biology in India for recognising excellence in the interdisciplinary field of Biological Sciences and Technology. A Gold Medal and a citation are to be presented to the awardee on 26 September, the CSIR Foundation Day.

Named after the founder Director of CSIR, the late Dr (Sir) Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, this prestigious award was instituted in the year 1957. SSB award is given each year in recognition of outstanding Indian work in science and technology. SSB Prize of Rs 5 Lakh each are awarded annually for notable and outstanding research, fundamental or applied in the concerned discipline.