Dr. Selman A. Waksman USA		Dr. J.N. Mukherjee Kolkata		Dr. S.P. Raychaudhuri New Delhi
	Dr. Victor A. Kovda Moscow, Russia		Dr. N.R. Dhar Allahabad		Dr. Charles E. Kellog USA
	Dr. J.S Kanwar Secunderabad		Dr. D. R. Bhumbla Ludhiana - 141012		Dr. S.K. Mukherjee Kolkata
	Dr. T.D. Biswas New Delhi		Dr. N.S. Randhawa Ludhiana		Dr. J.S.P. Yadav New Delhi
	Prof. S.C. Mandal Ranchi		Dr. L.D. Swindale, Honolulu Hawai, USA		Dr. S.S. Khanna New Delhi
	Dr. G.S. Sekhon Amritsar		Dr. N.N. Goswami New Delhi		Dr. I.P. Abrol New Delhi
	Dr. G. Dev Ludhiana		Dr. K.G. Tejwani New Delhi		Dr. S.S. Prihar Ludhiana
	Dr. N. Panda Bhubaneswar		Dr. W.E.H. Blum Vienna		Dr. M. Velayutham Chennai
	Dr. I.V. Subba Rao Secunderabad		Dr. L.N. Mandal Kalyani		Prof. Sant Singh Varanasi
	Dr. D.K. Das Delhi		Dr. Anil Kumar Singh Gwalior		Dr. P.K. Chhonkar New Delhi
	Dr. Rattan Lal Columbus		Dr. R.P. Dhir Jodhpur		Dr. Gyorgy Varallyay Hungary
	Dr. G. Narayanasamy New Delhi		Dr. J.C. Katyal Gurgaon		Dr. J.S. Samra Chandigarh
	Dr. P.N. Takkar New Delhi		Dr. R.K. Rattan New Delhi		Dr. D.K. Pal Nagpur
	Dr. N.S. Pasricha Ludhiana		Dr. S.K. Sanyal Kolkata		Dr. B.P. Singh Ranchi
	Dr. V.S. Tomar Gwalior		Dr. Ashim Kumar Sarkar Gurugram		Dr. Jagdish Prasad Nagpur
	Dr. Himanshu Pathak New Delhi		Dr. S.K. Chaudhari New Delhi

Eligibility

The Honorary Membership is conferred by the Council on an individual in recognition of his/ her outstanding contributions related to the objectives of ISSS, irrespective of his/ her membership of the ISSS and his/ her nationality.

Platnium Jublee Commemoration Award
1. Dr. J. S. Samra	2. Dr. P. N. Takkar
3. Dr. D. K. Pal	4. Dr. S. K. Sanyal
5. Dr. A. K. Sarkar	6. Dr. J. C. Tarafdar
7. Dr. A. Padma Raju	8. Dr. B.S. Dwivedi and Dr. Biswapati Mandal
9. Dr. Bijay Singh	10. Dr. S.K. Chaudhari
11. Dr. A.K. Patra	12. Dr. D.R. Biswas

Eligibility

The Platinum Jubilee Commemoration Award is conferred by the Council on an individual in recognition of his/ her outstanding contributions related to the objectives of ISSS, irrespective of his/ her membership of the ISSS and his/ her nationality.

Fellows of Indian Society of Soil Science
1986
1.	Dr. I.P. Abrol, New Delhi	2	Dr. N.N. Goswami, New Delhi	3	Dr. L.N. Mandal, Kalyani	4	Dr. N. Panda, Bhubaneswar
5.	Dr. S.S. Prihar, Ludhiana	6	Dr. G.S. Sekhon, Ludhiana	7	Dr. Mahendra Singh, New Delhi	8	Dr. N.T. Singh, Ludhiana
9	Dr. S.B. Varade, Aurangabad
1987
10	Dr. S.S. Khanna, New Delhi	11	Dr. S.B. Sinha, Jabalpur	12	Dr. T.N. Choudhary, New Delhi	13	Dr. T.G. Sastry (Deceased), New Delhi
1988
14	Shri Y.P. Bali (Deceased), New Delhi	15	Dr. O.P. Meelu, Ludhiana	16	Dr. P.N. Takkar, New Delhi	17	Dr. U.S. Sreeramulu, Coimbatore
1989
18	Dr. Raj Pal, Hisar	19	Dr. G.V. Kothandaraman, Coimbatore	20	Dr. K.N. Tiwari, Gurgaon	21	. Dr. R. Sakal, Pusa
1990
22	Dr. S.K. De Datta, Blacksburg (USA)	23	Dr. R.P. Dhir, Jodhpur	24	Dr. D.L. Deb, New Delhi	25	Dr. D.K. Das, New Delhi
1991
26	Dr. M.S. Bajwa, Ludhiana	27	Dr. I.V. Subbarao, Hyderabad	28	Dr. Ranjodh Singh, Palampur	29	Dr. P.K. Chhonkar, New Delhi
1992
30	Dr. Gautam Dev, Ludhiana	31	Dr. Chakrapani Misra, Bhubaneswar	32	Dr. Ram K. Gupta, Jabalpur	33	Dr. S.R. Poonia, Hisar
1993
34	Dr. N.S. Pasricha, Gurgaon	35	Dr. Dr. C.L. Acharya, Bhopal	36	Dr. B.S. Sandhu, Ludhiana	37	Dr. H.R. Manchanda, Hisar
1994
38	Dr. S.K. Mohanty, Cuttack
1995
39	Dr. S.M. Virmani, Hyderabad	40	Dr. S.K. Gupta, Kolkata	41	Dr. Y.N. Rao, Nelakondapalli (AP)
1996
42	Dr. R.P. Agrawal, Hisar	43	Mr. Y.P. Kalra, Edmonton (Canada)	44	Dr. M.S. Patel, Mehsana	45	Dr. G.U. Malewar, Parbhani
1997
46	Dr. S.K. Ghosh, New Delhi	47	Dr. J.C. Katyal, Hyderabad
1998
48	Dr. V.S. Tomar, Sehore	49	Dr. V.K. Nayyar, Ludhiana	50	Dr. K.R. Sonar, Ahemadnagar	51	Dr. G. Narayanasamy, New Delhi
1999
52	Dr. S.K. Banerjee, Jabalpur	53	Dr. A.P. Gupta, Hisar	54	Dr. Kunal Ghosh, Kolkata	55	Dr. A.K. Singh, New Delhi
2000
56	Dr. Bijay Singh, Ludhiana	57	Dr. R.K. Rattan, New Delhi	58	Dr. J.S. Samra, New Delhi	59	Dr. M.S. Aulakh, Ludhiana
2001
60	Dr. D.K. Pal, Nagpur	61	Dr. S.K. Sanyal, Kolkata	62	Dr. M.S. Brar, Ludhiana	63	Dr. N.K. Tomar, Hisar
2002
64	Dr. Anand Swarup, Karnal	65	Dr. Sandipta Kar, Kharagpur	66	Dr. P.S. Minhas, Karnal	67	Dr. J.C. Tarafdar, Jodhpur
2003
68	Dr. P. Singaram, Coimbatore	69	Dr. D.L.N. Rao, Bhopal	70	Dr. Dipak Sarkar, Kolkata	71	Dr. C.L. Arora, Ludhiana
2004
72	Dr. R. Krishnasamy, Coimbatore	73	Dr. A.K. Sarkar, Ranchi	74	Dr. A. Sreenivasa Raju, Hyderabad	75	Dr. A. Subba Rao, Bhopal
2005
76	Dr. Yadvinder-Singh, Ludhiana	77	Dr. S.C. Mehta, Hisar	78	Dr. K.S. Dhillon, Ludhiana
2006
79	Dr. Biswapati Mandal, Kalyani	80	Dr. D.D. Patra, Lucknow	81	Dr. Viraj Beri, Ludhiana	82	Dr. Abdul Rashid, Islamabad
2007
83	Dr. Tapas Bhattacharya, Nagpur	84	Dr. P.D. Sharma, New Delhi	85	Dr. I.M. Chhibba, Ludhiana	86	Dr. Dhyan Singh, New Delhi
2008
87	Dr. Pradeep K. Sharma, Palampur	88	Dr. D.K. Benbi, Ludhiana	89	Dr. S.C. Kotur, Bangalore	90	Dr. B.D. Sharma, Ludhiana
2009
91	Dr. K.S. Dadhwal, Dehradun	92	Dr. M.C. Manna, Bhopal	93	Dr. K.L. Sharma, Hyderabad	94	Dr. S.S. Tomar, Jabalpur
2010
95	Dr. G.S. Dasog, Dharwad	96	Dr. A.K. Srivastava, Nagpur	97	Dr Muneshwar Singh, Bhopal	98	Dr. B.K. Bandyopadhyay, Canning Town
2011
99	Dr. Ravender Singh, New Delhi	100	Dr. Ch. Srinivasa Rao, Hyderabad	101	Dr. D.R. Biswas, New Delhi	102	Dr. D.K. Das, Kalyani
2012
103	Dr. G.V. Lakshmi, Bapatla	104	Dr. Samaresh Kundu, Bhopal	105	Dr. Surendra Singh, Varanasi	106	Dr. Praveen Kumar, Jodhpur
2013
107	Dr. A.K. Patra, New Delhi	108	Dr. S.K. Chaudhari, Karnal	109	Dr. Jagdish Prasad, Nagpur
2014
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2015
110.	Dr. A.N. Ganeshamurthy, Bangalore	111.	Dr. B.S. Dwivedi, New Delhi	112.	Dr. Satish Kumar Singh, Varanasi	113.	Dr. C.A. Srinivasamurthy, Bangalore
2016
114.	Dr. S.S. Kukal, Ludhiana	115.	Dr. S.C. Datta, New Delhi	116.	Dr. H.S. Thind, Ludhiana	117.	Dr. K.M. Manjaiah, New Delhi
2017
118.	Dr. A.K. Biswas, Bhopal	119.	Dr. Dilip Kumar Kundu, Barrackpore	120.	Dr. Gouranga Kar, Bhubaneswar	121.	Dr. Kishorbhai P. Patel, Anand
2018
122.	Dr. K.S. Reddy, Hyderabad	123.	Dr. B.S. Brar, Ludhiana	124.	Dr. Kaushik Majumdar, Gurugram	125.	Dr. Madhumita Das, Bhubaneswar
2019
126.	Dr. P.L. Patil, Dharwad	127.	Dr. A.K. Nayak, Cuttack	128.	Dr. S.P. Datta, New Delhi	129.	Dr. (Mrs.) Mausumi Raychaudhuri, Bhuabneswar
2021
130.	Dr. Balwant Singh, Australia	131.	Dr. Arvind Kumar Shukla, Bhopal	132.	Dr. Tapan Jyoti Purakayastha, New Delhi	133.	Dr. R. Santhi, Coimbatore
2022
134.	Dr. K.K. Bandyopadhyay, New Delhi	135.	Dr. Pradip Dey, Bhopal	136.	Dr. N.B. Prakash, Bengaluru	137.	Dr. Bapusaheb D. Bhakare, Rahuri
2023
138.	Dr. P.P. Mahendran, Madurai	139.	Dr. M.V.S. Naidu, Pulivendula	140.	Dr. R.M. Karmakar, Jorhat	141.	Dr. S. K. Gangopadhyay, Kolkata

Eligibility

For nomination of the Fellowship, an individual must have been a sustaining Life Member or Member (not in arrears of subscription) for at least ten consecutive years. The nomination (six copies) will be made in each case at least by TWO Honorary Members/ Fellows in the prescribed proforma (obtainable from ISSS office or linked below). In a year, a Honorary Member/ Fellow can make not more than ONE nomination. Nomination once made shall remain valid for three years. The newly inducted Fellows shall be formally admitted at the Annual Convention and presented with a citation. For the year -------- the last date for receiving the nominations in the prescribed proforma at the Society’s office is ------.

Recipients of the 12th International Congress of Soil Science Commemoration Award
Year	Name	Year	Name	Year	Name
1986	Dr. P.N. Takkar	1994	Dr. S.K. Sanyal	2002	Dr. Tapas Bhattacharyya
1987	Dr. D.K. Das	1995	Dr. M.S. Aulakh	2003	Dr. (Ms.) Chitralekha Chatterjee
1988	Dr. Gautam Dev	1996	Dr. Anand Swarup	2004	Dr. Biswapati Mandal
1989	Dr. C.L. Acharya	1997	Dr. D.K. Pal	2005	Dr. D.D. Patra
1990	Dr. B. Prasad	1998	Dr. P.S. Minhas	2006	Dr. M.C. Manna
1991	Dr. N.K. Tomar	1999	Dr. M.S. Brar	2007	Dr. S. Adhikari
1992	Dr. Kunal Ghosh	2000	Dr. D.L.N. Rao	2008	Not awarded
1993	Dr. P.S. Sidhu	2001	Dr. A.V. Rao	2009	Dr. Suresh Kumar Chaudhari
2010	Dr. D.K. Kundu	2011	Dr. S.P. Datta	2012	Dr. S.S. Kukal
2013	Dr. K. Sammi Reddy	2014	Dr. Tapan Adhikari	2015	Dr. K.K. Bandyopadhyay
2016	Dr. Pradip Dey	2017	Dr. D. Damodar Reddy	2018	Dr. Sanjib K. Behera
2019	Dr. Ranjan Bhattacharyya and Dr. Monoranjan Mohanty	2021	Dr. Debashis Chakraborty	2022	Dr. R.S. Chaudhary
2023	Dr. Ritesh Saha

Eligibility

Applications for the Twelfth International Congress Commemoration Award are invited in the prescribed proforma (obtainable from ISSS office or linked below) from the members of the ISSS, irrespective of age for this award. Each applicant is required to furnish six copies of the application complete in all respect, giving evidence of creating a school of research, providing leadership and/ or making independent outstanding contribution in any branch of Soil Science.

The Awardee shall be honoured with a gold-plated medal and a citation at the Annual Convention of ISSS. For the year ------- the last date of receiving the applications in the prescribed proforma complete in all respects in the headquarters of the Society is -----

ISSS–Dr. J.S.P. Yadav Memorial Award for Excellence in Soil Science

2011        1. Drs B. S. Dwivedi, V. K. Singh and Arvind K. Shukla

2012        2. Drs A. K. Biswas, K. M. Hati, S. Ramana and A. B. Singh

2013        3. Drs Anil R. Chinchmalatpure, A. K. Nayak and G. Gururaja Rao

2014        4. Drs. N. P. S. Yaduvanshi and D. R. Sharma

2015        5. Drs. Rajeev Srivastava and M. S. S. Nagaraju

2016        6. Drs. Pramod Jha, Brij Lal Lakaria and Ritesh Saha

2017        7. Dr. Sanjay Arora

2018        8. Dr. O. P. Choudhary

2019        9. Dr. N. K. Lenka and Dr. Sangeeta Lenka

2021        10. Dr. Jayaraman Somasundaram (Team Leader) and Dr. P. Raja

2022        11. Dr. S.S. Dhaliwal

2023        12. Dr. Santosh Ranjan Mohanty (Team Leader)

Eligibility

Applications for the ISSS–Dr. J.S.P. Yadav Memorial Award for Excellence in Soil Science are invited in the prescribed proforma (obtainable from ISSS office or downloadable from http://isss-india.org/images/doc_file/Dryadav.pdf)from the members of the ISSS or the team in the area of basic/ applied aspects of soil science for sustainable high productivity. In case of the team one of the members shall be the active member of the ISSS. Each applicant is required to furnish six copies of the application complete in all respects, giving a concise account (not more than 500 words) of the work supported by a documentary evidence of the excellence of the work by the best five original research papers published in not less than three different peer-review journals of repute, and also a brief description of (a) products developed and patent(s) granted/ commercialized, and (b) viable technologies developed in India or any other well-recognized international organization based in India.

The Awardee shall be honoured with a gold-plated medal and a citation at the Annual Convention of ISSS. For the year ------- the last date of receiving the applications in the prescribed proforma complete in all respects in the headquarters of the Society is -----

Prof. Sant Singh Memorial Award for Excellence in Education and Research in Soil Science

2015        1. Dr. V.R. Ramakrishna Parama

2016        2. Dr. N.B. Prakash

2017        3. Dr. M.V.S. Naidu

2018        4. Dr. P.P. Mahendran

2019        5. Dr. T. Chikkaramappa

2021        6. Dr. Sanjay Kumar Sharma

2022        7. Dr. P. Balasubramaniam

2023        8. Dr. M.C. Meena

Eligibility

Applications for the Prof. Sant Singh Memorial Award for Excellence in Education and Research in Soil Science are invited in the prescribed proforma (obtainable from ISSS office or downloadable from http://isss-india.org/images/doc_file/Profsingh.pdf) from the members of the ISSS. Each applicant is required to furnish six copies of the application complete in all respects, giving a concise account of the work (not more than 500 words each for teaching and research) supported by documentary evidence in the form of: (a) For the assessment of teaching: A certificate from Dean/Director of the Faculty/Institute authenticating contribution of the applicant in development /revision of course curriculum, copies of teaching materials like books, book chapters, manuals, models, bulletins, technical folders, e-courses, e-lectures developed, list of courses taught at UG/PG levels, number of M.Sc. and Ph.D. students supervised and quality of students/human resources as evident by their placements; and (b) For the assessment of research: Best five original research papers published in not less than three different peer-review journals of repute.

The Golden Jubilee Commemoration Young Scientist Award
Year	Name	Year	Name	Year	Name
1988	Dr. Pradeep K. Sharma	1995	-	2002	Dr. K. Sammi Reddy
1989	-	1996	-	2003	Dr. (Ms.) T.R. Rupa
1990	Dr. A.N. Ganeshamurthy	1997	Dr. Ch. Srinivasa Rao	2004	Dr. Tapan Adhikari
1991	Dr. Biswapati Mandal	1998	Dr. Himanshu Pathak	2005	Dr. Arvind Kumar Shukla
1992	Dr. R.M. Bhagat	1999	Dr. R. Dinesh	2006	Dr. K.M. Hati
1993	-	2000	Dr. Vinod Kumar Phogat	2007	Dr. Gouranga Kar
1994	Dr. O.P. Choudhary	2001	Dr. D. Damodar Reddy	2008	Dr. Manoranjan Mohanty
2009	Dr. Uttam Kumar Mandal	2010	Dr. Ranjan Bhattacharyya	2011	Dr. Pramod Jha
2012	Dr. Ritesh Saha	2013	Dr. N.K. Lenka	2014	Dr. Sanjib K. Behera
2015	Dr. M.C. Meena	2016	Dr. S.K. Datta	2017	Dr. Biraj Bandhu Basak
2018	Dr. Mohammad Shahid	2019	Dr. M.L. Dotaniya	2021	Dr. Dibyendu Chatterjee
2022	Dr. Nirmalendu Basak
2023	Dr. Nintu Mandal and Dr. Gopal Ramdas Mahajan

Eligibility

The Golden Jubilee Commemoration Young Scientist Award, given annually to an individual in recognition of his/ her professional contributions in Soil Science, is open to members of the ISSS who are not more than 40 years of age as on 31st December of that year. The work done for any degree or diploma by the applicant shall not be considered within the purview of the contributions in judging the award. Eligible members of the ISSS can apply (six copies complete sets) for this award in the prescribed proforma (obtainable from ISSS office or linked below). The awardee shall be honoured with a gold-plated medal and a citation at the Annual Convention. For the year ----- the last date of receipt of applications in the prescribed proforma complete in all respects in the headquarters of the Society is ------.

Eligibility

A recipient of Doctoral degree in Soil Science, irrespective of age and membership of ISSS is eligible to apply for this award in the prescribed proforma (obtainable from ISSS office or linked below). For the year 2009, that person should have either completed all the requirements so as to become eligible for the award of Doctoral degree (or received Doctoral degree) of a University (recognized by the University Grants Commission) or an Institute/ Organization (conferred with the status of 'Deemed to be University' in India) any time between 1st July 2008 and 30th June 2009 (both days inclusive).

Eligibility

This contest is open to candidates in India, irrespective of the fact whether they are members of the ISSS or not, but fulfilling the following essential requirements.
* Must be a Master's degree holder in Soil Science from a recognized university or an institute/ organization deemed to be university in India.
* Must have specialized in Soil Science and/ or Agricultural Chemistry at the Master's degree level.
* Must have submitted a Thesis/ Dissertation in partial/ full requirement of the Master's degree.
* Must have completed all the requirements so as to become eligible for the award of Master's degree or received the Master's degree any time during the period from 1st July 2008 to 30th June 2009 (both days inclusive) for the year 2009.
The intending applicants are required to submit their applications in the prescribed proforma (supplied by ISSS office on request or linked below) to ISSS for the year 2009 on or before 4th August 2009. The contestants shall be required to make available a copy of their theses/ dissertations to the Judging Committee at the time of contest for consultation.

The lecture instituted in 1990 out of a donation received by ISSS will be arranged by a Chapter of ISSS as identified by the Council each year. The Chapter so identified will select the Speaker in consultation with President and Secretary of ISSS; fix the date, time and venue of lecture and arrange for the boarding and lodging of the speaker. Travelling allowance to the Speaker can be paid by the Chapter, provided it is certified by the Speaker that the same is not claimed from any other source. To meet expenses financial support as fixed by the Council will be given by the ISSS to the Organizing Chapter.

To encourage and foster competition and to recognize excellence in poster presentations made in the Annual Convention of ISSS, not more than three “Best Poster Presentation Awards” is given in a year on the recommendation of a judging Committee constituted for this purpose during the Annual Convention itself.