Awards

Junior Demographer Travel Grant awarded by IUSSP to attend the International Seminar on “Promoting Postpartum and Post-abortion Family Planning: Challenges and Opportunities”, Cochin, India in 11-13 November 2014.

Awarded Prof P N Mari Bhat prize for the best PhD thesis during 2011-2014 by International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai.

Awarded Population Association of America’s young scientist travel grant to attend PAA Conference held in 1-3 May 2014, Boston, USA.

IUSSP’s travel grant to participate 26th (in Morocco, Marrakesh) and 27th (in Busan, South Korea) conferences of IUSSP.

Awarded Raja Rao Memorial award from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 2014, for best research done in the area of Demography and Other related fields in the form of published articles or PhD thesis.

Awarded Max Planck-India fellowship, Max Planck Society, Germany, for collaborative demographic research with scientists from Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany 2012-2015.

2011, Prof K B Pathak Award from Indian Association of Study of Population (IASP), for the article “Trends and geographic Differentials in mortality under age 60 in India” (published in Population Studies) for methodological innovation in the field of Population and Health.

Junior Demographer Travel Grant awarded by IUSSP to attend the International Seminar “Emergence of Social Differences in Mortality Time Trends Causes and Reactions”, Alghero, Italy in 29-30 May, 2008.

Government of India and UGC Fellowship for pursuing PhD Course in International Institute for population Sciences from 9 May, 2007 to 9 December, 2010.

Silver Medal Winner in Master in Population Studies, 2005-2006, IIPS, Mumbai.

Government of India Fellowship for pursuing MPS/M Phil Course in International Institute for population Sciences from 11 July, 2005 to 31 December, 2006.

State Merit Scholarship during Higher Secondary classes from Assam State Government, 1997-1999.