Absolute Power of Women Scientists in M.P. Young Scientists Congress

Bhopal: The two-day 32nd Madhya Pradesh Young Scientists Congress organized by Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology in Bhopal concluded on Saturday. Director General of the Council Chandrakant Patil said that we should compete with ourselves daily. We should think of doing better than what we did yesterday. This time the number of awards has been increased for encouraging research in the field.

Senior Head Scientist Dr. G.D. Bairagi presented the Young Scientist Congress report at the concluding ceremony. Total 184 out of 206 young scientists selected from the entire state presented their research papers. These include 117 female scientists and 67 young male scientists. This time maximum research papers were presented in Physical Science.

Former Director General of the Council Dr. Ramprasad and Private University Regulatory Commission Chairman Dr. A.K. Pandey also expressed their thoughts.

Lecture on Popular Science in Plenary Session

Experts gave lecture on the Popular Science subjects at the Plenary Session of the Congress. UGC-DAE Consortium, Indore Director Dr. V. Ganeshan gave information about the state of the art research facilities in his centre. He said that a research on Low Temperature Application was going on in his centre. There are UGC-DAE Consortiums at four places in our country, which includes Indore. Dr. Ganesh Arun Joshi of Composite Regional Centre for Persons with Disabilities expressed his thoughts on the role of science and technology in the assistance of the disabled. Head Scientist of MAPCOST Tasneem Habeeb gave information about the activities and programmes of the Council.

Awarded scientists include Asha Sahu and Priyanka Joshi in Agricultural Science, Shivangi Sharma in Chemical Engineering, Anjali Pal and Gagandeep Kaur Reen in Chemical Sciences, Pratyush Motwani in Civil Engineering, Vaishali Gupta in Computer Science, Shobharam Ahirwar in Geological Science, Sunanda Ambulkar in Electrical Engineering, Aparna Singh in Environment, Archana Mal in Home Science, Aijaz Ahmed Naik and Deepali Sahu in Life Science, Prerna Choubey in Mathematical Science, Priyanka Joshi in Mechanical Engineering, Shailaja Godha and Smriti Pandey in Medical Science, Kalyani Choubey and Madhuri Shigrishi in New Biology, Ankit Jain and Prashant Sahu in Pharmaceutical, Sagar Sen, Chandrashekhar Jani and Toshik Ahmed Para in Physical Science and Deepa Yadav and Vinita Singh in Plant Science and Pankaj Jain in Veterinary Science.-WTN