Total 06 awards will be given with 02 awards from each subject category. The subject categories include:
| S. No. | Category | Subject/disciplines |
| 1 | Crop Improvement including Genetics and Plant Breeding and Biotechnology and allied disciplines | Genetics, Cytogenetics, Plant Breeding, Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Plant Physiology |
| 2 | Natural Resource management | Agronomy, Agro-climatology, Soil Science & Agricultural Chemicals, Farm Mechanization, Post-harvest Technology and Microbiology |
| 3 | Crop Protection and Social Science | Plant Pathology, Entomology and Nematology, Statistics, Computer Science and Agricultural Extension |
- The eligibility included life member of the Society continuously preceding last 10 years and has at least 15 years of research experience in regular service in pulses research and development.
- The allotted marks out of 100 marks for this award includes: 50 marks for publications, 30 marks for technology, and 05 marks for books, 15 marks for awards and recognitions with at least two publications in Journal of Food Legumes as First/Corresponding authors.
Guidelines for Evaluation of Nominations for Fellowship Award
Allocation of marks for different criteria:
Publications – maximum 50 marks
Products & Technologies – maximum 30 marks
Books – maximum 5 marks
Awards & honors – maximum 10 marks
Others (Outstanding Academic Contributions) – maximum 5 marks
1. PUBLICATIONS (Max. 50 marks)
- Forty most important publications will be considered. The Reviews and Review Articles will not be given any marks. The nominees should submit the list of their 40 best research publications, of relevance to the discipline. For each publication give name(s) of the author(s), indicate the corresponding author by asterisk‘*’ after his/her name, year of publication, full title, name of the journal, volume No. and page Nos. For NAAS scoring of journals, list of Journals as identified by NAAS rating (year 2025) and available on Academy website: www.naas.org.in may be consulted and the Journal ID should be mentioned in the column provided in the proforma against each publication. For Thomson Reuters Impact Factor (IF) journals, NAAS Score = 6.0 + IF (latest) with capping on 20.00.
- There should be at least 10 research papers on pulses in journals that should be indicated by asterisk in list of publications.
- Multiple authorship: First author and corresponding author will get full marks in a publication and rest of the authors 75% marks.
- The total NAAS Score of all 40 publications will be obtained and multiplied by 0.125 with a cap of maximum of 50 marks.
- PRODUCTS AND TECHNOLOGIES (Max. 30 marks)
15 best products and/or technologies should be given (each having 2 marks). The Committees may consider equivalent indicators for scoring and award of maximum marks as given below depending upon relevance and level of penetration of product/technology among stakeholders. For online products, URL should be accessible.
Note: An illustrative (but not exhaustive) description of indicators is provided below for allocation of marks.
| Products/technologies description |
| Each patented and commercialized product/each plant variety Gazette Notified by the CVRC/SVRC authenticated by accredited body (national level)/New extension models/concepts/methodologies developed and commercialized/ breeder of each non-notified/released crop variety protected under PPVFRA registry/unique indigenous germplasm/genetic stock registered at National repository/Development of smart village/Models of institutional innovations/ extension models/ ICT based extension programmes or any copyrighted product / technology comprehensive software/ Release/Policy Papers/Strategy papers/Strategy documents developed at National/ICAR/DARE level/comprehensive software/web resource. The product should be supported by documentary evidences. The technology should be supported by publications (other than listed 40 papers for publications) of NAAS rating 6.0 and above as first/corresponding author. |
Developer (one) shall be awarded 100% marks, while all Co-developers 75% .
- BOOKS (Max. 5 marks)
Books with a minimum of 100 pages with Copyright/ISBN No., published by a reputed publisher or organization, such as ICAR, CSIR and National Academies. Books published by the research institutes/universities will not be considered.
Each authored book scores 2 marks and edited book scores 1 mark. Each book Chapter will be given 0.25 marks subject to a maximum of 2 marks out of 5 marks given for Books.
4. AWARDS, HONORS, FELLOWSHIP OF NATIONAL SCIENCE ACADEMIES, etc (Max. 10 marks)
| National and international awards of high repute such as Rafi Ahmad Kidwai Award, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award and Norman E. Borlaug Award | (4 marks each) |
| Fellowship of National Science Academies (INSA, NASI, IAS, INAE, NAMS) | (4 marks each) |
| Awards by ICAR, CSIR, DST, DBT, NRDC, DRDO, ISCA, National Science Academies, Central Govt. Departments etc. | (2 marks each) |
| Young Scientist Award/Associateship by the National Science Academies | (2 marks each) |
| National and International level Professional Society and Academy (not covered above) Awards/Recognition (Fellowship; Lifetime Achievement Award; President, Editor-in-Chief (or equivalent), and Secretary positions | (1 mark each limited to maximum 5 marks) |
- Others (Outstanding Academic Contributions) (Max. 5 marks)
| Chairperson / Co-Chairperson / Convener of National Level Apex Body constituted by Government of India | (1 mark each) |
| More than 500 citations / research paper, review, review articles | (1 mark each) |
| Invited Lecture/Keynote Speaker/Chairman of a Technical Session during International Conference, Seminar etc. organized by reputed institutions/organizations abroad | (1 mark each) |
| Overseas Post-Doctoral Fellowship of minimum one year duration awarded by Fulbright; Humboldt; DAAD; FAO; CGIAR Institutes; Commonwealth; Overseas Universities; DBT; DST; BOYCAST; CSIR; ICAR; MHRD; INSA; UGC and others. | (1 mark each) |
General guidelines
- The awards are open to all the Indian Scientists who have worked or working in India or abroad, in the field of Pulses Research and Development subject to fulfilment of eligibility criteria laid down for the respective award.
- The applicant must be Life Member of the ISPRD (If any non-member wishes to apply, he/she should become a member before submission of application for the award).
- Executive Committee of the Indian Society of Pulses Research and Development (ISPRD) shall appoint a Judging Committee of 3-5 eminent scientists for evaluation of 100%.
- It may not be necessary to have a Separate Judging Committee for each ISPRD Award. The EC may constitute one, two or more Judging Committees for recommending names for ISPRD Awards.
- The EC shall finalize and approve the names of ISPRD awardees, whose decision shall be final and binding.
- Evaluation for all the ISPRD Awards shall be made based on score system developed for each award. The awards shall be given strictly on merit. However, minimum qualifying marks shall be 60 per cent in each case.
- The number of awards in a category may be increased/decreased as per the decision of Executive Committee.
- Only soft copy of award application with necessary attachment is required to submit through online at https://ncpulses.isprd.in/ starting from 20.12.2025.
- Applicants are advised to attach relevant documents for which marks are being claimed or wherever it has been asked in the application form to enable to judges to give marks accordingly. Attaching of non-asked documents will attract minus marking.
- The proofs of age, service experience, and ISPRD membership must be given along with application.
- The cut of date for respective year of application will be 31st December of that year for which award is applied.
- Supporting documents should be properly labeled with appropriate page number.
- Last date of receipt of nominations is: 15 January, 2026. Nominations received after the due date will not be considered.