Past Award Winners

Excellence / Distinction in Corrosion Science & Technology Award

Year Award 1 Award 2 Award 3 Award 4
1995 P F Anto (IEOT, ONGC) &
Prof A S Khanna (IIT Bombay)
1997 Dr. L K Agrawal (CBRI, Roorkee) &
Dr. D D N Singh (NML, Jamshedpur)
Dr. M A Qureshi (AMU, Aligarh)
1998 Viju Cherian &
Sunil Kr. Chug (IEOT, ONGC)
1999 Dr. M K Totlani (BARC, Mumbai) Dr. M K Totlani (BARC, Mumbai) Narendra Kumar (GAIL, New Delhi)
2000 Dr. D S R Murthy Dr. Anil Bhardwaj (IEOT, ONGC) P M Fanse (GAIL, Baroda) A K Sinha (NTPC, Noida)
2001 Prof. S K Roy (IIT, Kharagpur) M R Verma (IOCL, Panipat) R P Nagar (SSS Electricals, Bombay) Prof. S R Rajendran (GTN Arts College, TN)
2002 Dr. S Rajeshwar (Univ. of Madras) Dr. K C Koshal (IMD, ONGC) Partha Jana (GAIL)
&
V P S Bagga (ONGC)
Dr. G Saha (EIL, New Delhi)
2003 Dr. U Kamachi Mudali IGCAR, Kalpakkam &
Dr. B V Appa Rao, National Institute of Tech, Andhra Pradesh.
S S Gupta IOCL, Viramgam Dr. M B Mishra , Noida Manickam Valliappam Corrosion Management Services, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu.
2004 Dr. Vivekanand Kain (BARC, Mumbai) Dr. I Gurrappa DMRL Ayush Gupta GAIL (India) Ltd, Agra V P Sastry Reliance Industries Ltd
2005 Dr. B K Shah (BARC, Mumbai) S Subrahmanya Bhat (ONGC, Panvel) M. Suresh (Larsen & Toubro, Mumbai)
2006 Dr. Nikhiles Bandopadhay, (TATA Steel) Not recommended N Manohar Rao, BPCL, Mumbai Dr. T S Rao, IGCAR, Kalpakkam
2007 Dr. Mohammad Mobin, AMU, Aligarh Rajendra Kumar, IOCL, Noida V S Rao, HPCL, Visakhapatnam
2008 Dr Indranil Chattoraj, NML, Jamshedpur Bhola Singh Negi (IOCL, Noida) Santosh Kumar J K Surface Coatings Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai Sunil Kumar Chaudhary Indian Railway, Visakhapatnam
2009 Dr. M. Natesan (CECRI, Karaikudi) Keshav Kishore (IOCL, Panipat) K Ramesh Reliance Industries Ltd., Surat
&
Dr. Jaya Rawat, BPCL, Noida
Surinder Pal GAIL (India) Ltd. , Guna
2010 Dr. Rani P George (IGCAR, Kalpakkam) Jitendra Prasad Sinha (IOCL, Noida) Sandeep H Vyas (RGTIL, Navi Mumbai) Dr. N Rajendran Anna University, Chennai
&
Dr. S Sathiyanarayanan, CECRI, Karaikudi
2011 Dr. Tapan Kumar Rout (Tata Steel Group) Mr. V P Sastry Relene Petrochemical Pvt. Ltd.,Navi Mumbai S Sriram (Steel Authority of India Ltd, Ranchi) Dr V Saraswathy CECRI, Karaikudi
2012 Raghuvir Singh,CSIR – NML, Jamshedpur Bhupendra Gaur,Reliance Industries Limited, Navi Mumbai Dr. Deepashri D. Nage, Larsen & Toubro, Mumbai Dr. Supratik Roychowdhury,BARC, Mumbai
2013 Dr. M A Quraishi (BHU, Varanasi) Dr. S K Srivastava (ONGC, Mumbai) Ashish Khera (Allied Engineers, New Delhi) Kiran Kumar M (BARC, Mumbai)
2014 Dr. R Vedalakshmi, CECRI, Karaikudi Dr. P. Sarvanan (SAIL, Ranchi) Sunil Kumar Dayarambhai Kahar (M S Univ of Baroda)
2015 Dr. Jayanta Kumar Saha (Institute for Steel Development & Growth, Kolkata) Mr. Satendra Kumar JSW Karnataka Dr. J. Jayaraj (Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam)
2016 Dr. Bharat Bhushan Jha (CSIR-Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar) Mr. Shailesh D. Javia (SGB Scaffolding and Industrial Services Pvt Ltd, Ahmedabad) Dr. R. Baloji Naik (Naval Materials Research Laboratory, Ambernath) Mr. Rituraj Mishra (Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd, Mumbai)
2017 Dr. Sublime Ningshen (Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam) Sahab Singh Gurjar (Cairn India Ltd, Ahmedabad) Dr. A. Ravi Shankar (Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam) Rukmangad Kondamgire (GSPL India Gasnet Ltd, Gandhinagar)
2018 Dr. T P D Rajan (CSIR-NIIST, Trivandrum) Pankaj Panchal (Corrosion Protection Specialist Pvt Ltd, Ahmedabad) Dr. Anita Toppo (Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam)
2019 Dr. Radhakrishna G. Pillai (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai) Basanta Kumar Lenka (Technimont Pvt Ltd, Mumbai) Dr. S. C. Vanithakumari (Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam) Viswanathan Venkateswaran
&
Dr. Anil Krishna Kar
2021 Dr. T. M. Sridhar (University of Madras, Chennai) Ms. Nivedita S. Bhattacharyya (Engineers India Ltd, Gurugram) Dr. Poulami Chakraborty (Homi Bhabha Research Institute, Mumbai)
2022 Prof. Jyotsna Dutta Majumdar (IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal) Dr. Punita Mourya (CSIR – IIP, Uttarakhand) Dr. Ruchi Grover (Oxycoats, Delhi)
2023 Dr. Sunil Kumar Dayarambhai Kahar (The M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara) J. N. Agrawal (Corrsol Tech, Noida) Dr. Raffi Mohammed (National Institute of Technology, Andhra Pradesh) Dr. Dyana Joseline (Larsen & Toubro Construction, Chennai)
2024 Prof. Smrutiranjan Parida (IIT Bombay) Prof. Ambrish Singh (Nagaland University) Mr. T Siva Central Institute of Petrochemical Engineering & Technology (CIPET), Chennai

Excellent / Best Laboratories Award

Year National Laboratory R & D Laboratory in Industry
1997 IEOT, ONGC, Panvel Navdeep Chemicals, Mumbai
1998 Deioners Speciality Chem Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai
1999 NTPC, Noida OTIS, Mumbai
2000 GAIL (India) Ltd., Noida
2001 IOCL, Faridabad Larsen & Toubro Ltd., Mumbai
2002 IIT, Mumbai SPIC Ltd.
2004 IGCAR, Kaplakkam Tata Steel, Jamshedpur
2005 National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur
2006 No application received No application received
2007 TCR Engineering Services Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai
2008 Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai PSL Limited, Kutch
2009 Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., Faridabad Larsen & Toubro Ltd., Mumbai
2010 BPCL, Noida
2011 IOGPT, ONGC, Panvel
2013 Welspun Corp Ltd., Mumbai
2014 CSIR – SERC, Chennai Welspun Corp Limited, Bharuch
2015 L & T Hydrocarbon Engineering Ltd., Mumbai
2016 L & Tata Steel – Advanced Corrosion Research Centre, Jamshedpur
2018 L & CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi
2019 L & Corrosion Laboratories at IIT Madras, Chennai
2021 NA
2022 Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Bengaluru
2024 Gail (India) Ltd., Rajamundry

Students Awards – Ph.D. Degree / M.Tech Degree

Year NIGIS Best PhD Award NIGIS Best M.Tech Award
1996–97 Dr. Rajan Ambat (IIS, Bangalore) & Dr. Arun K. Pattanaik (IIT Bombay) Mr. Bhujang Rao (IIT, Jamshedpur) & Ms. Priya Smapath (IIT Bombay)
1998 Ms. N Parvathavarthini (IGCAR, Kalpakkam) & Dr. K Shridhar (NMRL, Thane) Diwakar Toner (IIT Bombay)
1999 Dr. Jaya Rawat (AMU, Aligarh) Riju Bhargava (IIT Bombay)
2000 Dr. G Raghava (Anna Univ., Madras) Atul Gadkari (Airforce, Gurgaon)
2001 Dr. Janardhan Swaroop (CSIR, Delhi)
2002 Dr. T.M Shridhar, Univ. of Madras & Dr. R Venkatesan
2003
2004 Dr. K S Ghosh, NIT, Warangal Lt. Cdr. A Vinith, IIT Bombay
2005 Dr. M Bobby Kannan, IIT Bombay Supratik Roychowdhury, IIT Bombay
2006 Dr. T S Sidhu, IIT Roorkee Lt. Cdr Shishir Dixit, IIT Bombay, Mumbai
2007 Dr. S Ninghsen, IGCAR, Kalpakkam Swati Ghosh, IIT, Kharagpur
2008 Dr. Vagge Shashikant Tukaram, IIT Bombay Ajit Bhaskar Bhandarkar, IIT Bombay
2009 N Muthukumar Mahesh Alahalli
2010 Dr. R C Saxena, IIP CSIR, Dehradun D Bhuvaneshwar, Anna University, Chennai & K Rajesh Kumar, Shalimar Paints Ltd, Nashik
2011 Manpreet Kaur – Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Engg College, Punjab
2012 Dr. Swati Ghosh, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai
&
Dr. Kamlesh Chandra Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai
Rajan Bhambroo IIT Bombay, Mumbai
2013 Dr. Georgy Jiju Abraham, IIT Bombay, Mumbai Mohammad Umar Farooq Khan, IIT Bombay, Mumbai
2014 Dr. K Rajesh Kumar, IIT Bombay, Mumbai
&
Jagadessh Sure, IGCAR, Kalpakkam
Dinesh Bapurao Balgude, ICT, Mumbai
2015 Dr. C Arunchandran, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam Mr. Anup Manohar Panindre, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
2016 Dr. L Mohan Anna University, Chennai Ms. P Krishnaveni P.S.G.R Krishnammal College for Women, Peelamedu
2017 Dr. T Siva CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi Sooraj Kumar A. O, IIT Madras, Chennai
2018 Dr. Liju Elias Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Mr. Bidyut Dutta IIT Bombay, Mumbai
2019 Dr. M Ajay Krishnan, IIT Bombay, Mumbai
&
Dr. Poulami Chakraborty, Homi Bhabha Research Institute, Mumbai
Madhura B Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam
2021 Dr. Arvunan Vijay Ingle IIT Bombay, Mumbai
&
Ms. S Chandralekha University of Madras, Chennai
Dr. Deepak Kumar Kamde IIT Madras, Chennai
&
Ms. Divya Rachel Robby National Institute of Technology, Calicut
2022 Dr. Geetisubhra Jena, IGCAR, Kalpakkam Mr. Naveen Krishnan IIT Madras, Chennai
2023 Dr. Sai Karthik Nouduru, Homi Bhabha National Institute
2024 Ankur Kumar, IIT Roorkee

Meritorious Contribution Award

Year Meritorious Contribution Award
2000 C R Prasad (Gail, New Delhi) & B C Bora (ONGC, Delhi)
2002 Dr. U K Chatterjee, IIT Kharagpur
2003 Dr. R S Chaudhary, Maharshi Dayanand University, Haryana
2004 Dr. N. Palaniswamy, Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CERI), Karaikudi
2005 Dr. G Venkatachari, Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CERI), Karaikudi
2006 Dr. Baldev Raj, IGCAR, Kalpakkam
2007 Dr Mumtaz Ahmad Quraishi, BHU, Varanasi
2008 Prof. Gumreet Singh, University of Delhi, Delhi
2009 Dr. V S Raja, IIT Bombay Mumbai; U Kamachi Mudali, IGCAR Kalpakkam; Anand Kumar, IOCL Noida
2010 Dr. I Gurrappa, DMRL, Hyderabad
2011 Narendra Kumar GAIL Complex, Vijaipur & Dr Vivekanand Kain Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai
2013 Dr. R Venkatesan, NIOT, Chennai & P M Fanse, Gujarat
2014 Dr. Sunil Kumar Chaudhary, Road Construction Dept, Dharbhanga; Indranil Chattoraj, NML, Jamshedpur; Prof S Rajendran, RVS School of Engg and Tech, Dindigul
2015 Dr. Pradeep Jain, NTPC Ltd, Greater Noida; Dr. K Thangavel, CSIR Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi
2016 Dr. Rani P George Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam; Dr. Anil Bhardwaj Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd., Panvel
2017 Dr. N Rajendran, Anna University, Chennai
2018 Dr. V Saraswathy, CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi
2019 T Subba Rao, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Kalpakkam; Sandeep Harshadray Vyas, Reliance Industrial Limited, Navi Mumbai
2021 Mr. Raghuvir Singh NML, Jamshedpur; Mr. Parvatalu Damaraju ONGC Energy Centre, Navi Mumbai
2022 Dr. Mohammad Mobin Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh; Mr. Vemuri Padmanabha Sastry, MS Asset Integrity & Materials Engineering Services, New Panvel
2023 Dr. Bhupendra Gaur, Dr. R Balaji Naik, Naval Material Research Laboratory, Ambernath
2024 Dr. M G Sethuraman, The Gandhigram Rural Institute, Gandhigram
2024 Pankajkumar Dhabhijibhai Panchal, Corrosion Protection Specialist Pvt. Ltd.

NIGIS Life Time Achievement Award

Year Life Time Achievement Award
1999 Dr. A K Laha & Dilip Sengupta
2000 V T Purohit
2001 V G Kulkarni, CCS Bombay & Dr. G N Mehta, SVR College, Surat
2002 Dr. D Mukherjee, CECRI
2003 Dr. M K Totani, Mumbai
2004 Dr. K Elaya Perumal, Mumbai
2005 Not recommended
2006 Not recommended
2007 Dr. G. H. Thanki
2008 Dr. Satya Prakash, IIT Roorkee
2010 Dr. S K Seshadri, IIT Madras, Chennai
2012 Rajan Bahir, PSL Ltd.
2013 Dr. Baldev Raj
2014 S P Rao
2015 Ashok Kumar Purwaha, Former Chairman & Managing Director, Engineers India Limited
2016 Prof. K A Natarajan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
2017 Shri Om Degan, Osnar Paints & Contracts Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai
2018 Dr. S L Kataria, International Certification Services Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai
2019 Prof. Gumreet Singh, Pondicherry University, Puducherry
2021 Mr. K L Batra
2022 Mr. N Manohar Rao