Haryana Vigyan Ratna Award to Panjab University Chemistry Chairman
Panjab University(PU) Professor and Chairman, Department of Chemistry, PU Prof.
S.K.Mehta has been bestowed with the prestigious Haryana Vigyan Ratna Award for the year
2011-12 for his research contributions in the field of Science.
Haryana Vigyan Ratna Award is the highest honour of Haryana Government in the field of
Science. The award was instituted by Haryana Government to recognise and encourage
scientists.
Prof. Mehta will be honoured by Haryana Government with a cash award of Rs 2 lakh, a
citation and trophy as a token of appreciation and encouragement at a state-level function.
Prof. Mehta is Honorary DAAD Advisor and recipient of various prestigious honours and
awards. He has received German DAAD fellowship, Authors award of Royal Society of
Chemistry, U.K., and JSPS invitation fellowship of Japan, DST-DAAD PPP and DST-JSPS
international projects has made several visits abroad for collaborative research.
Prof. Mehta has published more than 190 research papers in high impact international
journals besides eight books/chapters. He is an expert member on Department of Science
and Technology Programme Advisory Committee (PAC) on Physical Chemistry, Member National
FIST committee and was also awarded Bronze medal by Chemical Research Society of India
(CRSI) in recognition of his contributions to research in Chemistry.