Dr. O. P. S. Sengar Memorial Young Scientist Award
Dr. O.P.S. Sengar (1929-2001) was one of India’s pioneering and most distinguished personality and a leading figure in India’s twentieth century intellectual life in the arena goat breeding, genetics , Reproductive Physiology and Nutrition with Omni disciplinary approach. A graduate of the Agra University, where he groomed with Prof. S N Singh, whom approach and ideas had a lasting influence on his work. He attained his Masters of Science degree from University of Illinois USA in the field of Reproductive Physiology and returned to India in 1958, thereafter devoted his whole life primarily in initiating goat research in the country.
Dr. Sengar trained in the Indian tradition of Goat rearing in specific and was a fierce advocate of empirical fieldwork as a critical method for the study of Goat production and management. Much of the power and insight of Prof. Sengar’s work as he was, in many respects a traditionalist, even a conservative; yet he was fascinated by the extraordinary process of goat breeding and management in a period, when the poor animal was blamed of deforestation. Dr. Sengar pleased and felt enlighten to published, his bible of goat, a project report, facing so many obstacles, with a heart engraving title on the front page “only for those who loves goat”. This made him in some respects a renounced figure by his tracing the fast changes in goat population, through crossing of indigenous goats instead of exotic blood entrance from abroad under the null hypotheses of rejection, during the critical period, when the conventional breeders were behind the crossbreeding of native cattle population with exotic blood. Dr Sengar, with his forecast, who opposed the cross breeding long back, and followed his innovative ideas by using the latest technology of specific and general combining ability under the estimation of heterosis of direct and reciprocal crosses. In those days the process of heterosis was merely conventionally opted in plant and poultry breeding area, where it was neither opted in cattle nor in buffaloes but in goat, it was first time adopted by Dr Sengar with a great success in producing foundation seed of desired characters showing over dominance and superior genetic merit.
This award of Rs.11000/ every year is jointly given by Nano & Molecular Society and Sengar family to outstanding young scientist.
Dr. Pranjal Chandra, Laboratory of Bio-physiosensor and Molecular Diagnostics, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology – Guwahati has received “Dr. O. P. S. Sengar Memorial Young Scientist Award” 2016 for his outstanding scientific contribution in the area of nanoscience and nanotechnology at award ceremony in National Conference on Trends in Nanobiotechnology (NCTN 2016) from 29th-30th Nov 2016 organized by Department of Molecular Biology, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar. The award was given by Prof. K. P. Singh, Vice –Chancellor, C. C. S. Hisar Agriculture University, Hisar(Haryana).
Dr. Parag Sharma, Scientist, National Physics Laboratory, New Delhi, has received “Dr. O. P. S. Sengar Memorial Young Scientist Award” 2015 for his outstanding scientific contribution in the area of nanoscience and nanotechnology at award ceremony in 3rd International Conference on Nano structured Materials and Nano composites (ICNM 2015) at Hindustan College of Science and Technology, Farah (Matura) U. P. The award was given by Mrs Laxmi Kunwar Sengar (wife of late Dr. O. P. S. Sengar) with family members on 14th Dec 2015.
Dr. Anu Singh, Advanced Instrumentation Research Facility, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, has received “Dr. O.P.S. Sengar Memorial Young Scientist Award” 2017 for her outstanding scientific contribution in the area of nanoscience and nanotechnology at award ceremony in International Conference on Applied Nanotechnology & Nanoscience (ICANN-2017) from 7th -9th December, 2017 at Tuljaram Chaturchand College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Baramati (Pune) Maharashtra, India