Amritsar, January 5 – Prof. (Mrs.) Avinash Nagpal of Department of Botanical and Environmental Sciences of the Guru Nanak Dev University has been conferred with “Senior Scientist Award” during the 4th International Conference on Life Science Research for Rural and Agricultural Development organised jointly by the International Consortium of Contemporary Biologists (ICCB) and the Madhawi-Shyam Educational Trust (MSET) at Central Potato Research Station (CPRS), Patna (Bihar) recently.
On this occasion, the Young Scientist Award was awarded to Miss Rajneet Kour Soodan, a Ph.D. Scholar working under the proficient supervision of Prof. Avinash Nagpal and Dr. Jatinder Kaur, Assistant Professor in the same Department.
Besides this, Miss Soodan was also awarded with “Best oral presentation award” for oral presentation on the topic entitled “Assessment of physico-chemical parameters and genotoxicity of rice cultivated fields of Amritsar in Allium cepa”.
Both of them were also conferred with Fellowship certificates of MSET-ICCB on the occasion. Renowned scientists of national and international repute, technocrats and researchers from all over the world attended this international conference. From Guru Nanak Dev University Prof. Saroj Arora, Dr. Jatinder Kaur and Mrs. Rajinder Kaur from Department of Botanical and Environmental Sciences also presented their work. The contribution of the Department was highly appreciated. Dr. Adarsh Pal Vig, Head of the Department and other faculty members congratulated them for this achievement.
