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Laxmipat Singhania award for missile scientist

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CHENNAI: B.K. Das, Joint Director, Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur, Orissa, has been awarded the Laxmipat Singhania–Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow National Leadership Award for 2008 for his outstanding achievements as a young leader in science and technology.

Vice-President M. Hamid Ansari gave away the award in New Delhi on June 10.

The citation said Dr. Das had created the kernel that would provide the basis for many breakthroughs in electro-optics and its applications in the tracking systems of the missile programme.

Three categories

The Vice-President said the awards honoured outstanding leaders in the three categories that were important for national development: business; science and technology; and community service and social uplift. Laxmipat Singhania, in whose name these awards had been instituted, was an entrepreneur with a human touch, he said.

Dr. Das, 42, holds a doctorate in image processing from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He has been associated with the missile programme of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) at the ITR for the past 20 years and has contributed to the indigenisation of the range instrumentation system.

It is from the ITR that the DRDO’s missiles are launched.

Previous recipients

The previous recipients of the award include R.A. Mashelkar, C.N.R. Rao, K. Kasturirangan and Anil Kakodkar.

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