A Prime Minister's Research Fellowship Is Awarded To 14 BHU Scholars

Fourteen Banaras Hindu University research scholars have been granted the Prime Minister's Research Fellowship. The Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, the departments of geology, chemistry, biochemistry, botany, and bioinformatics are home to the students. The researchers who have been chosen for the current PMRF cycle are: Ankita Gupta from the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Garima Kandwal from the Department of Biochemistry, Prashasti Pandey from the Department of Botany; and Syona Tiwari from the Department of Bioinformatics. From the geology department, the researchers are Bandan Kumar, Aindabi Maitra, Kuhoo Madhav, R B Ananth, Raju Rai, and Sudipa Bhunia; and from the chemistry department, Deepika Sharma, Karmdeo Prajapati, Nikhil Srivastav, and Ritesh Tolani.

Congratulating the research scholars on the achievement, BHU vice-chancellor Professor Sudhir Kumar Jain said the university is making remarkable progress in opening up new avenues of growth and excellence for its students and researchers.