Aryabhata award

Astronautical Society of India (ASI), Bangalore, has announced its annual awards for the year 2005, including the prestigious Aryabhata award to Dr P S Goel, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences.ASI, set up in 1990, said in a statement it has instituted several awards to recognise talented Indian individuals who have made significant contributions to astronautics.The list of awardees for the year 2005 is:
Aryabhata Award 2005 - Dr P S Goel, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, New Delhi; ASI Awards 2005 Rocket related technology - P Vardaraj, Defence Research and Development Laboratory, Hyderabad; Space sciences and applications - Dr V K Agarwal, ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore, and Prof R Sridharan, Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram; Space systems management - S K Shivakumar, ISRO Telemetry, Tracking & Command Network, Bangalore.