President Pranab Mukherjee presented the National Geoscience Awards – 2014

President Pranab Mukherjee presented the National Geoscience Awards – 2014 today on Tuesday at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Speaking on the occasion, Mukherjee said that availability and use of minerals in any country has been one of the factors determining self-sufficiency of its economy. These natural resources have to be explored, extracted, refined and processed to use them for national building. At the same time, we must understand that sustenance of mankind depends only on environmentally sustainable mining practices. Our effort to use our natural resources should be informed by the dangers of natural and man made disasters. He stated that he was happy to note that the Geo scientists of the country are working hard to meet these challenges. The diverse fields work of the awardees are testimony to this inherent spread of the geo scientific developments in the country.

Here is the list of National Geo science Award – 2014