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NAIP Intl. Training Fellowship Award in Mol. Microbial Taxonomy - Univ. of Georgia, Athens, USA, Aug-Nov. 2010.
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Rothamsted International Post-Doctoral Fellowship Award – 2007-08, Rothamsted Research, UK.
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ICAR Outstanding Interdisciplinary Team Res. Award in Agrl. & Allied Sciences for the biennium 2005-06.
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Best Poster Award – Intl. Conf. on Microbial Diversity: Current Perspectives and Potential Applications – Uni. of Delhi, South Campus, New Delhi, April 16-18, 2005
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MASHAV, Israel, Scholarship Award for undergoing graduate course in ‘Biotech. in Agrl. – Plants & Microorganisms’ at Hebrew Uni. of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agrl., Food & Environ. Quality Science, Rehovot, Israel- Jan-March 2004.
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Best Poster Award - National Conf. on Coastal Agrl. Res., ICAR Res. Complex for Goa , Old Goa, 6-7 April 2002.
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NET-ICAR Award – 1993, by ASRB, New Delhi.
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Gold Medal Award for Outstanding Academic qualifications in the M. Sc. Microbiol. at IARI, New Delhi, in 1992.
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DST/DBT/INSA/CSIR Intl. Travel Grant Awards to attend Intl. Conferences in Australia (2005) and Switzerland (2011).
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ICAR Jr. & Sr. Fellowship Award for doing M.Sc (1989) .& Ph. D (1991) in IARI, New Delhi.