Om Prakash Bhasin Award for Science and Technology is an Indian award, instituted in 1985 to recognize excellence in the areas of science and technology.^[1] The award, given individually or collectively to a group, is annual in cycle and carries a plaque, a citation and a cash prize of ₹ 100,000.^[1][2] The winners are invited to deliver the Om Prakash Bhasin Memorial Lecture at a venue decided by the award committee.^[2]

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Om Prakash Bhasin Awards have been instituted by Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation, a New Delhi-based charitable organization^[1] founded by Vinod Bhasin, along with her two sons, Shivy Bhasin and Hemant Kumar Bhasin, to honour the memory of her husband, Om Prakash Bhasin, a non resident Indian businessman.^[3] The corpus for the award of ₹ 5,100,000 was formed by Om Prakash Bhasin as a trust before his death.^[3] The awards, started in 1985, are given in five categories. The selection is through a notified procedure and is decided by a committee appointed for the purpose.^[1] The committee includes the Chairman of the foundation, two trustees representing the foundation, a member of the scientific community and a representative of the State Bank of India, the bankers to the foundation. The incumbent committee members are:^[3]

• Shivy Bhasin - Chairman
• Hemant Kumar Bhasin - Foundation trustee
• Vinod Prakash Sharma - Scientist trustee
• Samar Vikram Bhasin - Foundation trustee
• State Bank of India nominee

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Recipients

Agriculture and Allied Sciences

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Biotechnology

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Electronics and Information Technology

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Engineering including Energy and Aerospace

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Health and Medical Sciences

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