30th Annual Report 2017-18

53 AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS Joydeep Bagchi and Research Team comprising of Shishir Sankhyayan, Somak Raychaudhury, Prakash Sarkar, Joe Jocab and Pratik Dabhade SanjeevDhurandhar ArvindGupta GirjeshGupta SanjitMitra Jayant V. Narlikar The Astronomical Society of India (ASI) year 2018 ' New Discovery Prize' was awarded to Joydeep Bagchi and the Research team for the discovery of Sarswati Supercluster. Majha SanmanAward byABPNews Network Pvt. Ltd. on July 28, 2017. TMC award for excellence ( Pune Gaurav ) onOctober 16, 2017, byTopManagement Consortium, Pune Senior Scientist Platinum Jubilee Fellowship awarded in January 2018, byNASc., Allahabad. Padma Shri 2018 by the Government of India Parvez Guzdar Young Scientist Award 2017 instituted by the Institute for Plasma Research (IPR), Bhat, Gandhinagar. Rutherford Fellowship 2018 tenable at the University of Cambridge by Commonwealth Scholarship Commission. Outstanding Faculty ResearchAward fromCareers360. Lakshmipat Singhania - IIM Lucknow National Leadership Award (2016-17), New Delhi, June 27, 2017, at the hands of the Honourable President of India. Bharat Asmita Vigyaan Tantragyaan Shreshtha -2018 Award from the MIT World Peace University, Pune, February 3, 2018.