{"id":14573,"date":"2023-09-12T03:30:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=14573"},"modified":"2025-04-02T21:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T16:00:19","slug":"shanti-swarup-bhatnagar-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/shanti-swarup-bhatnagar-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The award is named after the founder Director of the Council of Scientific &amp; Industrial Research (CSIR) India, the late Dr Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar.<\/li>\n<li>The Prize is given\u00a0<strong>each year for<\/strong> outstanding contributions\u00a0<strong>to science and technology.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Nature of the Prize<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It carries prizes amount\u00a0<strong>of Rs 5,00,000\u00a0<\/strong>(Rupees five lakh only).<\/li>\n<li>It is given for notable and outstanding research, applied or fundamental in the following disciplines: (i) Biological Sciences, (ii) Chemical Sciences, (iii) Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences, (iv) Engineering Sciences, (v) Mathematical Sciences, (vi) Medical Sciences and (vii) Physical Sciences.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eligibility<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Any\u00a0<strong>citizen of India engaged in research<\/strong> in any field of science and technology\u00a0<strong>up to the age of 45 years<\/strong> as reckoned on 31st December of the year preceding the year of the Prize.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Overseas citizen of India<\/strong> (OCI) and\u00a0<strong>Persons of Indian Origin<\/strong> (PIO) working in India are also\u00a0<strong>eligible.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Prize is awarded on the basis of contributions made through\u00a0<strong>work done primarily in India during the five years<\/strong> preceding the year of the Prize.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>In awarding the Prize, the Governing Body of CSIR is guided by the\u00a0<strong>recommendations of the Advisory Committees<\/strong> constituted with the approval of the Chairman of the Governing body of CSIR.<\/li>\n<li>The names of the recipients are made public on 26 September, the CSIR Foundation Day by the Director General, CSIR.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Who is\u00a0 an Overseas Citizen of India?<\/h3>\n<p>Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) is a special immigration status and lifelong visa granted to foreign citizens of Indian origin, as well as certain foreign spouses of Indian citizens and other eligible individuals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/centre-announces-winners-of-bhatnagar-prize-after-a-years-delay\/article67295145.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>After a year\u2019s delay, CSIR\u2019s Bhatnagar awards for 2022 Announced<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awards is named after the founder Director of the Council of Scientific &#038; Industrial Research (CSIR) India, the late Dr Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}