Here is an award you can apply for if you are technically skilled. To encourage and promote technical innovation, IIT Kharagpur in mid 2006 announced the Nina Saxena Excellence in Technology Award.
The award commemorates the spirit and memory of its illustrious alumna Dr. Nina Saxena, B.Tech (Hons.), ECE 1992, who passed away in 2005.
It is open to all technologists who are Indian citizens (resident or non-resident). Nominations for entries to the award will remain open till May 31, 2007.
Nominations can also be submitted by post to The Director, IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, 721302 or by email to director@iitkgp.ernet.in.
The nominations will be judged on the basis of the following dimensions and order of importance — innovation above and beyond well known results, novel application of a well known result, societal improvement and benefit to India
This year’s award is the first and will be conferred on August 18, 2007.
The award is funded through an endowment of the Nina Saxena Memorial Fund that has been collected through IIT Foundation (a non-profit organisation and a US 501(c) organisation). .
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