title: SASTRA-CNR Rao Award
text: # SASTRA-CNR Rao Award
  
  SASTRA-CNR Rao Award is an award instituted by SASTRA University, a private and deemed university in the town of Thirumalaisamudram, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, to honor excellence in chemistry and material science, the two areas in which C N R Rao has made great, important and substantial contributions. The Award was instituted in 2013 and the first award was presented jointly to Suresh Das the then Director of National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science & Technology, Thiruvananthapuram and Sourav Pal, the Director of National Chemical Laboratory, Pune on 28 February 2014. The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 5 lakh and a citation.
  
  ## Awardees
  
  Recipients of SASTRA-CNR Rao Award :
  
  | Year | Name | Affiliation at the time of the award |
  | - | - | - |
  | 2014 | Suresh Das | National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram |
  | 2014 | Sourav Pal | National Chemical Laboratory, Pune |
  | 2015 | K N Ganesh | Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune |
  | 2015 | V Chandrasekhar | National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar |
  | 2016 | T K Chandraeskhar | Science and Engineering Research Board |
  | 2016 | N Sathyamurthy | Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali |
  | 2017 | Baldev Raj | National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore |
  | 2017 | S Chandrasekhar | Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad |
  | 2018 | A K Sood | |
  | 2018 | Santanu Bhattacharya | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
  | 2019 | G U Kulkarni | Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS), Bangalore |
  | 2019 | R Murugavel | IIT Bombay |
  | 2020 | J N Moorthy | Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram |
  | 2020 | S Sampath | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
  | 2021 | A K Ganguli | Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi |
  | 2021 | G Mugesh | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
  | 2022 | T Govindaraju | Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore |
  | 2022 | Sandeep Verma | Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi |
  