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About AWSAR

"Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research (AWSAR)" is an initiative that aims to disseminate Indian research stories among the masses in an easy to understand and interesting format to a common man. Under this initiative, PhD Scholars and Post-Doctoral Fellows (PDFs) in Science and Technology (S&T) streams would be encouraged to write at least one popular science article during the tenancy of their fellowship, and to participate in a national competition. Read more

For PhD Scholars

  • 1st Prize: 1,00,000 (one)
  • 2nd Prize: 50,000 (one)
  • 3rd Prize: 25,000 (one)
  • 100 selected entries: 10,000 (each)

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For Post Doctoral Fellows

  • One Outstanding story: 1,00,000
  • 20 selected entries: 10,000 (each)

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Selection Criteria

A panel consisting of eminent scientists and science communicators, constituted by DST, would evaluate the entries.

Entries can be submitted from 15 August 2019 till 31 October 2019

Who can apply

Indian citizen pursuing PhD or PDF in any stream of Science and Technology (S&T), within the tenancy period of her/his research, can submit the entry. The story must relate to research being pursued by him/her.

Basic Guidelines for Submitting a Popular Science Story under Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research (AWSAR) Programme

  1. Any Indian citizen pursuing PhD or Postdoctoral Fellowship in any Science...
  2. The scholars should be enrolled in PhD program from Government approved...
  1. Preference will be given to applicants with published paper(s) of their research...
  2. The article should indicate complete research story in simple language...
  3. Only original articles sent exclusively for nomination for AWSAR award will be...
  4. The applicants are requested to mention the theme, title of the paper along with...
  5. Articles submitted should carry a declaration that the article is original...
  6. Article of 1000-1500 words (A4-size with 2.5 cm margin on all sides, single...
  7. Applicants found guilty of plagiarism and multiple submissions by same author...

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Announcement

Science and Technology of the country has been rapidly progressing in the recent few years and Department of Science and Technology (DST) have played a pivotal role in its promotion through various programs and dynamic policy interventions across the scientific ecosystem. To further strengthen this, Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Hon’ble Union Minister for Science & Technology & Earth Sciences launched the AWSAR (Augmenting Writing Skills Read more

AWSAR Awardees

AW/2019/1566 | Dr Madhuree Kumari

AW/2019/4511 | Dr Aditya Parekh

AW/2019/996 | Dr Harshini Chakravarthy

AW/2019/4381 | Dr Parul Sood

AW/2019/1079 | Dr Balaram Mohapatra

AW/2019/1871 | Dr Parmeshwar Prasad

AW/2019/1518 | Dr Himanshi Kapoor

AW/2019/4302 | Dr Sripriya Rengaraju

AW/2019/3051 | Dr Debostuti Ghoshdastidar

AW/2019/1797 | Dr Nihit Saigal

AW/2019/4431 | Dr Sirisha Boddapati

AW/2019/208 | Dr Arun Kumar

AW/2019/3084 | Dr Raviteja S.

AW/2019/1272 | Dr Viji Vijayan

AW/2019/3986 | Dr Vaishali Verma

AW/2019/1306 | Dr Dipak Gade

AW/2019/2821 | Dr Gayatribahen Joshi

AW/2019/4084 | Dr Vaishali Phatak Londhe

AW/2019/956 | Dr Alibha Rawat

AW/2019/2713 | Dr Nandini B.

AW/2019/1983 | Dr Paramvir Singh

AW/2019/2532 | Ms. Dipita Ghosh

AW/2019/4755 | Mr. Avinash Ingle

AW/2019/1690 | Mr. Khandekar Jishan Bari

AW/2019/4411 | Ms. Subhadra M.

AW/2019/1923 | Mr. Bhanu Kumar

AW/2019/3253 | Ms. Dyana Joseline

AW/2019/569 | Mr. Pranav Kherdekar

AW/2019/4751 | Ms. Sumedha Sharma

AW/2019/4417 | Mr. Tirtharaj Dash

AW/2019/4433 | Mr. Gaurav Bansal

AW/2019/3995 | Mr. Himanshu Joshi

AW/2019/3497 | Mr. Sunil Abraham

AW/2019/1349 | Ms. Indu V.

AW/2019/4772 | Ms. Mahima Sharma BS

AW/2019/3082 | Mr. Omkar Hegde

AW/2019/2864 | Mr. Rajeev Rajak

AW/2019/3890 | Ms. Mamta Thakur

AW/2019/4858 | Mr. Rohit Kannattukunnel

AW/2019/5043 | Mr. Aliarshad Kothawala

AW/2019/3410 | Ms. Anju S.

AW/2019/4644 | Mr. Jervis Fernandes

AW/2019/2002 | Ms. Mithra K.

AW/2019/756 | Ms. Nimisha Roy

AW/2019/4638 | Mr. Chandra Shekhar Singh

AW/2019/2450 | Mr. Sidhartha Rout

AW/2019/1406 | Mr. Aakash Agrawal

AW/2019/4253 | Ms. Priyanka Jain

AW/2019/887 | Ms. Samatha Mathew

AW/2019/3550 | Ms. Taiyaba Ansari

AW/2019/4246 | Ms. Aashna Sharma

AW/2019/4539 | Ms. Ankita Rathore

AW/2019/1311 | Ms. Sapna I.

AW/2019/3983 | Ms. Supriya Bharte

AW/2019/4623 | Ms. Suvarna Kadam

AW/2019/4375 | Mr. Mitul Srivastava

AW/2019/4467 | Ms. Samipta Singh

AW/2019/4718 | Ms. Debasree Purkayastha

AW/2019/4152 | Mr. Jyotirmoy Paul

AW/2019/3366 | Mr. Nitheesh M. Nair

AW/2019/5032 | Mr. Patanjali S.L.P.S.K.

AW/2019/2218 | Ms. Keerthi K.

AW/2019/4665 | Ms. Krishna Kumari

AW/2019/622 | Mr. Abhijeet Anand

AW/2019/4023 | Mr. Abhishek Kesarwani

AW/2019/4627 | Ms. Chinmayee Mishra

AW/2019/4585 | Mr. Gaurav Hedau

AW/2019/4251 | Mr. Nettimi Satya Sai Srinivas

AW/2019/3101 | Mr. Pranesh Chandrasekaran

AW/2019/4682 | Mr. Viney Ghai

AW/2019/3313 | Mr. Andrew Peter Leon M.T.

AW/2019/4599 | Ms. Dhanya T. M.

AW/2019/4765 | Ms. Oyahida Khatun

AW/2019/4948 | Ms. Sreyashi Bhowmick

AW/2019/2975 | Mr. V. Srinivasa Rao

AW/2019/4524 | Ms. Debika Ojha

AW/2019/4752 | Mr. Nishant Shakya

AW/2019/4746 | Mr. Ajinkya Sirsat

AW/2019/2476 | Ms. Reema Narayan

AW/2019/240 | Mr. Shanay Rab

AW/2019/2137 | Ms. Smita Patil

AW/2019/4715 | Ms. Sujaya Dasgupta

AW/2019/2615 | Mr. Debprasad Dutta

AW/2019/904 | Mr. Jithin Vishnu

AW/2019/2533 | Ms. Jyoti Tiwari

AW/2019/4761 | Ms. Kirti Gupta

AW/2019/4613 | Ms. Leena Fageria

AW/2019/3978 | Ms. Medha Dandu

AW/2019/3676 | Mr. Raj Kamal Yadav

AW/2019/4813 | Mr. Sachin Shetty

AW/2019/4621 | Mr. Ajin Joy

AW/2019/2402 | Mr. Anirban Basu

AW/2019/2638 | Ms. Ankeeta Amonkar

AW/2019/2422 | Mr. Chetan Agrawal

AW/2019/2891 | Mr. Habeeb Rahman A.P.

AW/2019/2637 | Mr. Mohd Moiz Khan

AW/2019/3615 | Ms. Nippatlapalli Narasamma

AW/2019/2717 | Mr. Rahul Sheoran

AW/2019/3936 | Ms. Sandhya R. Shewale

AW/2019/2508 | Mr. Ajay S. V.

AW/2019/4269 | Mr. Anoop Kadan

AW/2019/3850 | Ms. Arpita Shome

AW/2019/3207 | Mr. Gaurav Kumar

AW/2019/4382 | Mr. Mikhil Surendran

AW/2019/1647 | Ms. Shikha Binwal

AW/2019/2974 | Mr. Tanmoy Kundu

AW/2019/4893 | Mr. Tomson Devis

AW/2019/4277 | Mr. Amol Kulkarni

AW/2019/2724 | Mr. Anil Vishnu G. K.

AW/2019/1192 | Mr. Karthik Mahesh

AW/2019/1844 | Ms. Krittika Sudhakar

AW/2019/4956 | Ms. Mrunal Barbhai

AW/2019/3764 | Ms. Prachi Gupta

AW/2019/4472 | Ms. Suchismita Behera

AW/2019/3973 | Ms. Anjali Garg

AW/2019/4915 | Ms. Rashmi Chawla

AW/2019/2884 | Ms. Rasika Pawar

AW/2019/4400 | Mr. Abrar Bhat

AW/2019/3698 | Ms. Aleena Alex

AW/2019/4397 | Ms. Amrita Chaudhary

AW/2019/4291 | Mr. Bijoy Dey

AW/2019/4800 | Mr. Haseen Siddiqui

AW/2019/4104 | Ms. Lipa Deb

AW/2019/4313 | Ms. Mahima Makkar

AW/2019/1348 | Ms. Malu S.

AW/2019/3113 | Ms. Puja Patel

AW/2019/4636 | Mr. Rajat Kumar

AW/2019/3874 | Ms. Rakhi S.

AW/2019/4716 | Ms. Sandhya Birla

AW/2019/4426 | Mr. Santoshkumar Palanirajan

AW/2019/2982 | Ms. Sathiya Ramu

AW/2019/1571 | Ms. Sukanya Som

AW/2019/4686 | Mr. Vineet Singh

AWSAR Top Awardees

Department of Science and Technology (DST) had received overwhelming response under AWSAR programme and would like to thank all the participants for submitting their research story for AWSAR Awards. After the series of evaluation process, DST had selected Best Popular Science Stories for the Award of ₹1,00,000/- ₹50,000/- and ₹25,000/- (First, Second and Third respectively) under PhD Category and Outstanding story under Postdoctoral Fellow (PDF) Category for ₹1,00,000/.

Sample Research Stories

These Sample stories are selected from the bouquet of published popular science stories in
various science magazines. These stories will serve as reference for Awarded aspirants.

An isabgol based wound material to treat diabetic wounds

Treatment of chronic non-healing wounds in diabetes is a major clinical challenge...

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Botanical garden

It is almost like going around a botanical garden full of exotic flowers, some of which may look similar to lilies and marigold...

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Distribution of monsoon rainfall connected to global sea surface temperatures

The All India Monsoon Rainfall has been a target of monsoon prediction...

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Indian scientists find out how zika virus causes microcephaly in infants

Zika virus spreads through mosquitoes and is known to cause microcephaly...

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Western Ghats biodiversity is a significant source of moisture for monsoon

The mountain range that runs along the west coast of peninsular...

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Distribution of monsoon rainfall connected to global sea surface temperatures

The All India Monsoon Rainfall has been a target of monsoon prediction...

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AWSAR workshops will strengthen the skills of PhD scholars and PDFs for writing Popular Science
Stories. Author of selected 100 stories will be invited to attend the Science Filmmaking workshops

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AWSAR Workshop

AWSAR workshops will strengthen the skills of PhD scholars and PDFs for writing Popular Science
Stories. Author of selected 100 stories will be invited to attend the Science Filmmaking workshops.

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