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Total registration
4,993 (PhD- 4,735, PDF-258 )
Male-2,756, Female- 2,237
Total stories submitted
1,948 (PhD-1,690, PDF-258)
Male-965, Female-983
Total stories evaluated
1,826 (PhD-1,582, PDF-244)
Male-900, Female-926
Hindi articles received
23 (PhD-19, PDF-04)
Sr No
Subject Category
AWSAR 2019
PhD
PDF
Total
1
Agriculture sciences
146
24
170
2
Chemical sciences
116
25
141
3
Earth and atmospheric sciences
68
15
83
4
Engineering sciences
458
34
492
5
Health sciences
193
26
219
6
Life sciences
341
87
428
7
Mathematical sciences
18
02
20
8
Physical sciences
110
19
129
9
Other
132
12
144
Total
1,582
244
1,826
160
and 10.2%, respectively. Remaining States and Union Territories showed less than 10% share of story submission. Whereas under PDF category, story submission share observed maximum from Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu, which was 5.7%, 5.5%, and 5.3%, respectively. Remaining States and Union Territories showed less than a 5% share of story submission.
Table 1: AWSAR 2.0 Registration overview
Table 2: Subject-wise distribution of evaluated stories
were awarded in the PDF category. One hundred twelve authors under Ph.D. Category and 21 authors under PDF Category were awarded Rs 10,000 and Certificate of Appreciation. On the eve of National Science Day, certificates were given to six Ph.D. scholars and two Post-doc fellows for winning the AWSAR awards. Chris Felshia from CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute, Adyar, Chennai won the first prize (Rs. 1,00,000) in the Ph.D. category; while Anand Abhishek and Sayantan Sur from CSIR-Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Pilani and Department of Zoology, University of Delhi won the second prize (Rs. 50,000); and the third prize (Rs. 25,000) winners were Anirban Sarkar, ChitrangDani and M L Bhavya from Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, Kolkata; Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru and CSIR- Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysuru, respectively. Dr. R. Chandran (from Marine Biology Regional Station, Zoological Survey of India, Chennai ) and Dr. Joyita Sarkar (from Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune) won the Rs. 1,00,000 prize in the Post-doc category. In the top 100 list, 29 students from IITs were selected in the Ph.D. category and six in the Post-Doctoral category. Moreover, twelve Ph.D. students and three PDFs from CSIR were also there. The details of top AWSAR awardees are presented in the table:
Top AWSAR Awards in Ph.D. Category: 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize were given to 6 Ph.D. scholars as per their score, and two outstanding PDFs
VIGYAN PRASAR ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020