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JNU sheen remains intact as University wins President’s award for excellence in research and innovation
Notwithstanding the sedition case whirling around, JNU has won the Visitors award for research and innovation. Tezpur university has bagged the Visitors best university award. Visitors awards were instituted in 2014 by President Mukherjee as he is the Visitor of Central Universities.
Inspite of the raging political row over sedition, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has won the President's award for excellence in research and innovation.
President Pranab Mukherjee had instituted these awards at the Vice Chancellors' Conference in 2014 with the aim of encouraging central universities to adopt best practices and benchmarks from across the world and to promote healthy inter-university competition. These awards are named after the President who is the Visitor of central universities.
Mukherjee will present the Visitor's awards for 2016 at the ‘Festival of Innovations’ a felicitation event to be held at Rashtrapati Bhavan on March 14.
While the visitor's award for innovation will be given to Prof Rakesh Bhatnagar for development of a genetically engineered vaccine and a therapeutic antibody against anthrax, Tezpur University in Assam has won annual Visitor's award for 'best university'.
The visitor's award for research will be conferred upon the Molecular Parasitology Group of JNU for its path-breaking achievement in the area of molecular parasitology, especially anti-malaria, leishmaniasis and amoebiasis.
"Tezpur University has won the annual Visitor's award for the best university and Prof Rakesh Bhatnagar as well as the Molecular Parasitology Group of JNU have won the Visitor's awards for 'research' and 'innovation' respectively," a press release issued today by Rashtarapati Bhavan said.
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