Ans. A panel of awardees would be prepared by a Selection Committee for final selection by the President. The committee will have the following composition:
S.No.
|
Nomenclature of the ex-officio post |
Names of Incumbents |
i) |
Secretary to the President – Chairperson |
Shri K D Tripathi |
ii) |
Secretary, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education – Member |
Shri K Sanjay Murthy |
iii) |
Secretary, Department of Science & Technology – Member |
Prof. Ashutosh Sharma |
iv) |
Secretary, Department of Biotechnology – Member |
Dr. Renu Swarup |
v) |
Executive Vice-Chairman, National Innovation Foundation – Member |
Dr. P.S. Goel,Chairman |
vi) |
Director, IIT Delhi – Member |
Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao |
vii) |
Professor, IISc.-Bangalore – Member |
Prof. Govindan Rangarajan,Director |
viii) |
Five persons of eminence in the field of academic, research and other relevant fields to be nominated by the President – Member(s) |
|
|
a) Chairman, University Grants Commission |
Prof. Dhirendra Pal Singh |
|
b) Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education |
Prof. Anil D. Sahasrabudhe |
|
c) Director, NIPER Ahmedabad |
Dr. Kiran Kalia |
|
d) Member Secretary, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi |
Prof. Virendra Kumar Malhotra |
|
e) Former Director, International Centre for Genetic, Engineering & Biotechnology, New Delhi |
Prof. V.S. Chauhan |
ix) |
An Officer from the President’s Secretariat – Member Secretary |
Shri Jagannath Srinivasan, OSD |
x) |
Any other Special Invitee(s) as decided by Chairperson |
|
|
(a) Additional Secretary, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education |
Dr. Vineet Joshi |
|
(b) Joint Secretary to the President |
Shri Ajay Bhadoo |
The Selection Committee will invite online nominations in prescribed formats. The Selection Committee will devise its own procedure to select the awardees, which will be put on the website of the President of India.