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Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award was instituted by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in 1956 to provide incentives to research workers in India and to recognize their outstanding research work. Nine Awards are given biennially in seven disciplines of agriculture and allied sciences to a scientist who has made outstanding research contributions.^[1]

The award is given in fields of :

agriculture,
animal husbandry and
allied sciences(i.e. fisheries, aquatic sciences, and public health microbiology).

The award consists of a Gold medal, a citation, and a cash prize of 300,000 Indian Rupees. It is named after Indian freedom fighter and politician Rafi Ahmed Kidwai.

Awardee List

Following is list of the recipients of the Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award:

Year	Name of Awardees	Organization	Remark	Reference
Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award
1968
1968	Dr Pushkarnath	Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI)		[1]
1971
1971	Dr Triloki Nath Khoshoo	Government of India, Department of Environment	For research programmes on pollution effects on plants, prescription of air pollution, soil, noise and water pollution.	[2]
1972
1972–1973	Dr T.N Ramachandra Rao	CFTRI,Mysore
1978-1979
1978–1979	Dr Subrahmaniam Nagarajan	Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI)		[3]
1980-1982
1980-82	Dr R. P. Kapil, Dr. K. L. Jain, Dr. R.C.Sihag, Dr. J.P. Chaudhary	Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar	For their outstanding research work on the biology and management of some megachilid bees for pollination of crops. The award was given in the discipline of Agricultural Entomology.	[4]
1987
1987	Dr M. S. Aulakh	Punjab Agricultural University (PAU)		[5]
1995
1995	Dr. E. A. Siddiq	Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)		[6]
1996
1996	Dr. J. C. Katyal	Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA)		[7]
1996	Dr. K. Aruna	Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University (ARAU)	For outstanding contributions to research in Animal Nutrition.	[8]
1996	Dr. V. M. Mayande	Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA)		^{[citation needed]}
2000
2000	Dr G. S. Shekhawat	Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI)		[9]
2001-2002
2001-2002	Dr Parimal Roy,	Central University Laboratory, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chennai	For his outstanding contribution in the field of Animal Health
2003-2004
2003	Dr V. Sriramachandra Murthy	Division of Demersal Fisheries, Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI)	For his outstanding research in the field of marine fisheries development.	[10], [11]
2003–2004	Dr. Fasi-Uz Zaman	Division of Genetics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI)	For his contributions to plant breeding.	[12]
2003–2004	Dr. (Ms) P. Dureja	Division of Agricultural Chemicals, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI)	For her significant work in the field of agroche-micals.	[13]
2005-2006
2005-06	Dr B. Mishra	Directorate of Wheat Research (DWR)	For his contributions to rice and wheat research in the country.	[14], [15], [16]
2005-06	Dr I. Karunasagar	Karnataka Veterinary, Animal & Fisheries Sciences University (KVAFSU)	For his Research that has led to improvement in fish and shrimp health management and assessment of food safety.	[17]
2005-06	Dr. Nagendra Kumar Singh	NRCPB, IARI New Delhi	For his contributions to biotechnology in India
2005-06	Prof. Aditya Kumar Misra	Project Directorate on Cattle (ICAR)	For his outstanding research contribution in Animal Sciences.	[18]
2006-2007
2006-07	Dr S. K. Pandey	Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI)	For his outstanding achievements and contribution in diversification of potato production, storage and utilisation and improving productivity and profitability of small farmers.	[19],[20]
2007-2008
2007–2008	Dr. K. C. Bansal	National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, Pusa, New Delhi	Dr. Bansal developed transgenic wheat, mustard and tomato with enhanced tolerance to drought, salinity and cold stress. In addition, he has developed transgenic tomato with extended shelf life to save a huge post-harvest loss.	[21]
2007–2008	Dr. S. K. Rao	JNKV Jabalpur	Dr. Rao played a pivotal role in reorganizing crop improvement research and was responsible for the development of several crop varieties, infrastructure for maintenance breeding, diversified nucleus and breeder seed producing systems.	[22]
2007–2008	Dr. P. S. Minhas	Punjab Agricultural University (PAU)	The scientific contributions of Dr. Minhas have led to a better understanding of soil-water-plant interactions in saline environment and development of management strategies for the judicious use of low quality waters.	[23]
2007–2008	Dr. Sushil Kumar Kamra	CSSRI, Karnal	Dr. Kamra has made significant contributions in developing subsurface drainage technology for amelioration of waterlogged saline irrigated lands in India. He has developed a 2-dimensional finite element model that can make long term predictions on desalinization of soil and salt load of subsurface drainage water	[24]
2007–2008	Dr. Gaya Prasad	CCSHAU Hisar	Dr. Prasad studied the dynamics of bluetongue disease in India. His pioneering work on bluetongue virus (BTV) epidemiology, viral antigenic and genomic diversity, cell tropism, molecular diagnostics and vector identification laid the foundation for development of vaccine based on Indian strains of the virus.	[25]
2010
2010	Dr. J.S. Bentur	Directorate of Rice Research, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad	Crop and Horticultural Sciences - research pursued on insect plant interaction with reference to gall midge-rice.	[26]
2010	Dr. Narpinder Singh	Department of Food science and Technology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar	NRM and Agricultural Engineering - worked on establishment of structure-function relationship in starch present in different crops (potato, corn, rice, wheat, field peas, chickpea, kidney beans, blackgram, amaranth, mango kernel, unripeapples).	[27]
2010	Dr. Raj Kumar Singh	National Research Centre on Equines, Sirsa Road, Hisar	Animal & Fisheries Sciences - contributed significantly in terms of (1) development of a number vaccines and diagnostic tests/ assays / kits; (2) generation of baseline data on seroand molecular epidemiology of PPR, sheeppox, goatpox, buffaflopox, camelpox, equine influenza, glanders and equine infectious anaemia.	[28]
2010	Dr. Ramesh Chand	NCAP, DPS Marg, Pusa Campus, New Delhi	Social Science - developed an analytical framework to investigate and quantify the impact of different policy instruments and technological options on agriculture sector and to suggest set of measures to achieve desired goals of growth in output and farm income, efficiency, regional equity and stability.	[29]

2012	Dr. K. V. Prabhu	Joint Director (Research), Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi	Dr Prabhu was an effective team member in developing breeding strategies and methodologies that led to the release so far of 17 new varieties: eight of wheat, two of barley, five of mustard and two of basmati rice.	[30]

Controversy

There have been several complaints that Dr K.C. Bansal falsified the patent information on the basis of which Kidwai Award (2007-2008) was given to him. The Award was given to Dr Bansal for patenting a technique to transfer foreign gene to brinjal chloroplast. It was found that Dr Bansal did not have such a patent to his credit and that he filed an application for patent only after the award was given. The matter got wide publicity in press, media and scientific journals^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

Several scientists demanded Shri Sharad Pawar, Former Minister for Agriculture to remove Dr Bansal from the post of Director, NBPGR.^[7] Questions were raised in Indian Parliament.^[8] Mr Tariq Anwer, Minister of State for Agriculture has answered that an enquiry has been initiated to look into the issues. However, reports suggest that ICAR has hushed up the matter and RTI queries for the outcome of the enquiry were not answered.^[9]

References

[1] ttp://www.icar.org.in/merits.html

[2] India Today: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/genetically-modified-food-crops-researcher-kailash-c-bansal-grabbed-rafi-ahmed-kidwai-award-for-patent-claim/1/226654.html

[3] Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2224489/Top-GM-food-scientist-false-patent-claim.html

[4] Down to Earth: http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/maya-indian-science

[5] Down to Earth: http://www.downtoearth.org.in/category/tags/k-c-bansal

[6] Indian Institute of Patents: http://www.iipta.com/ipr/blog/forging-patent-claims-national-award-1007

[7] ttp://agrariancrisis.in/2012/10/31/join-us-in-demanding-the-removal-of-dr-k-c-bansal-as-nbpgr-head

[8] Lok Sabha: http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/psearch/QResult15.aspx?qref=132451

[9] India Today: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/need-to-think-through-ban-on-alcohol-says-dinesh-c.-sharma/1/379037.html

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