Dasika Durga Prasada Rao

Indian geoscientist

Dasika Durga Prasada Rao
Born1939
Hyderabad State, India
OccupationGeocientist
AwardsPadma Shri
Bhaskara Award

Dasika Durga Prasada Rao is an Indian geoscientist and the former director of the National Remote Sensing Agency.[1] Born in 1939 to a family of Guntur-Vijayawada region.[1] He is a 1998 Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India.[2] Rao was honored by the Government of India, in 2001, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri.[3] Two years later, he received the Bhaskara Award from the Indian Society of Remote Sensing in 2003.[4]

See also

  • flagIndia portal

References

  1. ^ a b "NASI". NASI. 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  2. ^ "NASI Fellows" (PDF). NASI. 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  3. ^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Padma Awards. 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
  4. ^ "ISRS". ISRS. 2014. Archived from the original on 18 November 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2015.

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Recipients of Padma Shri in Science & Engineering
1950s
  • Kshitish Ranjan Chakravorty (1954)
  • Habib Rahman (1955)
  • Laxman Mahadeo Chitale (1957)
  • Ram Prakash Gehlote (1957)
  • Krishnaswami Ramiah (1957)
  • Bal Raj Nijhawan (1958)
  • Benjamin Peary Pal (1958)
  • Navalpakkam Parthasarthy (1958)
  • Surendranath Kar (1959)
  • Om Prakash Mathur (1959)
  • Homi Sethna (1959)
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