Csir To Tighten Criteria For Naming Awards

CSIR director-general R A Mashelkar said yesterday the selection criteria had been made more stringent without spelling what the changes were. There is no awardee this year for the engineering sciences as it did not fit into the changed criteria, Mashelkar said. The coming years will see a further tightening of criteria.

Announcing the recipients of the 1996 awards here yesterday, Mashelkar named the winner of mathematical sciences award as V S Sunder of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences at Madras. This award had been the subject of a controversy earlier as it was alleged that the previously chosen candidate had not done his work in India.

 

The prize for physical sciences was claimed by Thanu Padmanabhan of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Pune.

N Chandrakumar of the Central Leather Research Insti- tute and Mariappan Periaswamy of the Hyderabad University jointly claimed the prize for chemical sciences.