Article Posted on : - Mar 04, 2016

Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Shri Babulal Gaur presenting the "Vigyan Pratibha Samman 2016" to BrahMos Chief Sudhir K Mishra. A Brahmand photo

BHOPAL (BNS): BrahMos Aerospace CEO & MD Mr. Sudhir K Mishra has been honoured with the "Vigyan Pratibha Samman 2016" during the "Bhopal Vigyan Mela" organised by the Madhya Pradesh Council of Science & Technology last month.

Minister of Home, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh, Hon'ble Shri Babulal Gaur presented the award to the BrahMos Chief during the event organised on 19th February 2016 in Bhopal.

Also present on the occasion were Professor Pramod K Verma, DG & Scientific Adviser to the Govt. of Madhya Pradesh and Shri Tapan Bhowmik, Chairman, MP State Tourism Development Corporation.

"Immense feeling of satisfaction to be honoured by my home state," Mr. Mishra, who hails from Madhya Pradesh and has graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering (1982), Jabalpur Government Engineering College, remarked.

Addressing the event, he ignited the young minds through the vision of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam and motivated them to achieve excellence and serve the nation.

The Government of Madhya Pradesh has been organising the "Vigyan Melas" in order to create scientific awareness and science popularisation amongst the rural, tribal and urban people of the state.

The annual event provides a unique platform to Researchers, Scientists and students of the state.