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. 

• Listed in the world's top 2% of scientists published by Elsevier and Stanford University (USA) for the year 2024 and 2025

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 – 2020)

      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