Women and Nutrition Programme Meet under ‘Science and Technology Scheme for Women’ – Organised by UPES held on June 19th- 20th, 2014.

1. Two day Expert Sub-Committee Meeting on ‘Women and Nutrition (WN)’ Programme under ‘Science
and Technology Scheme for Women’ was organized by the University of Petroleum and Energy
Studies on the 19th and 20th June, 2014. This program was catalyzed and supported by Science
for Equity Empowerment and Development (SEED) Division, Department of Science & Technology,
New Delhi.
About 31 R&D project proposals were presented for financial assistance before ten member expert
evaluation committee, over 2 days. Expert evaluation committee constituted experts invited from
research organization/institutes like Nutrition Foundation of India, CSIR-Central Food Technological
Research Institute, BAIF Development Research Foundation, National Institute of Nutrition-Jamai
Osmania, National Dairy Research Institute, Institute of Bioresources
& Sustainable Development, and Division of Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, PUSA.
Dr. (Ms). Mahtab Bamji, INSA honorary scientist was the chair of the committee. Project
Investigators/Co-Investigators and project teams from all over India were part of the program. DST
officials, Dr. Sobhana Bhaskaran, Scientist E and Dr. Konga Gopi Krishna, Scientist D, from SEED
division headed the meeting. Dr. Sanket Goel, Dr. Neelu J. Ahuja, Dr. Kanchan Deoli Bahukhandi and
Mr. Venkateswaran. P.S were the chief organizers and coordinators of the meeting, along with team
support from Dr. Inder Singh, Mr. Pankaj Badoni, Mr. Ajay Prasad, Mr. Sunil Kumar, Mr. Ritesh
Saini, Mr. Kingshuk Srivastava, Yashaswi Vemuganti, Ms. Niharika, Mr. Sunil Bisht and Ms. Shobha
Aswal.