Guidelines of Award
Name of Award: Dr. Rahul Sharma Memorial Award for Young Researcher
Periodicity of the Award
The Award shall be conferred annually to the winners of Oral Presentation (03 Nos).
Eligibility of the Award:
Ph.D. scholars under 35 who have made outstanding contributions to fungal biodiversity, taxonomy, phylogeny, and systematics are eligible for this award. The award is exclusively intended to the registered bona fide Ph.D. scholars. Permanent faculty members, post-doctoral fellows, and teachers are not eligible.
Administration of the Award
AFB shall have the sole right of selection of the recipient of the award and of the formulation and /OR revision of rules governing such selection.
Value of the Award
: The winner of the Oral Presentation (02) will be felicitated with a memento and a citation. The award does not include a cash prize.
Procedure for Selection of Recipients
- The Association will invite nominations from active, registered Ph D. scholars young.
- A separate award competition of nominated candidates will be organized during annual conference.
- A three member judging committee will be nominated by the AFB for selecting the winner of poster presentation.
- The judging committee will select First, Second & Third winner of Oral presentation.
- The judging committee has authority to disqualify any candidate found canvassing.
- The decision of constituted committee by AFB will be the final.
- Once awarded, the awardee can apply for any other award(s) of AFB after two years of completion.
Presentation of the Award
Once the judging committee selects the winners, the awards will be presented during the valedictory session of the annual meeting/conference.