Fellowships and Awards

• Awarded for Start Up Research Grant (Young Scientist), SERB, DST
• Dr. D.S. Kothari Post-doctoral fellowship
• Junior and Senior Research Fellowship from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi
• Prof. B.M. Johri memorial best poster award for the presentation of poster entitled “Biotechnological interventions in guava (Psidium guajava L.): current achievements and future prospects” in XXXII PTCA (India) meet organized by M.N. Institute of applied sciences, Bikaner (Rajasthan) on February 4-6, 2011.

Research Projects

1. Documentation of important trees of amarkantak and their multiplication for sustaining biodiversity

Start Up Grant, Basic Science Research (BSR) Program, UGC, New Delhi (April 3, 2018 – continue)

Total Cost - 10 lakhs

2. Molecular characterization of Prosopis and Acacia species – well accepted agroforestry trees of Indian Thar Desert

Start Up Research Grant (Young Scientist) Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) (June 4, 2014-May 22, 2017)

Total Cost - 29 lakhs

3. Molecular characterization, propagation and in vitro conservation of guava (Psidium guajava L.)

Dr. DS Kothari Post Doctoral Fellowship Scheme, UGC, New Delhi (June 24, 2010 – June 23, 2013)

Total Cost - 14.5 lakhs