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Rajendra Singh Paroda

Rajendra Singh Paroda is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Rajendra Singh Paroda rather than just read about it. In short: Rajendra Singh Paroda (born 1942 in Saradhana Ajmer, Rajasthan) is an Indian agricultural scientist. He was the former Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and Secretary, Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE), Government of India.

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Reference excerpt

Rajendra Singh Paroda (born 1942 in Saradhana Ajmer, Rajasthan) is an Indian agricultural scientist. He was the former Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and Secretary, Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE), Government of India. He was the general president of the Indian Science Congress Association during 2000-2001 and the president of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) from 1998 to 2000. He was elected as the first chairman of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), FAO, Rome from 1998 to 2001. He served as an executive secretary of the Asia Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI) based at FAO Regional Office, Bangkok since 1992. He also served as the chairman, board of trustees, ICRISAT, Hyderabad, member of IRRI Board, Los Banos, Philippines and was a member of Advisory Council of Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), Canberra, and the Commonwealth Agriculture Bureau International (CABI), London. In 1996, he organised the second International Crop Science Congress in New Delhi. In 2001, he Presided over the Indian Science Congress held at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, which was inaugurated by the then Prime Minister of India, Atal Behari Bajpai. In 2012, he organised the first Global Conference on Women in Agriculture (GCWA) in New Delhi which was attended by the then President of India, Mrs Pratibha Patil. He served as chairman of the organising committee of the Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD 2) organised jointly by GFAR and CGIAR in October, 2013 at Punta del Este, Uruguay. As Executive Secretary, APAARI, he had organised by now more than twenty regional expert consultations on thematic areas of high regional importance. Currently he is the President of IARI Alumni Association.

Awards Rafi Ahmad Kidwai Memorial Prize (1982–83), ICAR Team Research Award (1983–84), FICCI Award (1988), Om Prakash Bhasin Award (1992)' Asia-Pacific Seed Association Special Award (1995), CGIAR Award for Outstanding Partnership (2000), Life Time Award by Association of Agricultural Scientists in America (2001), Dr Harbhajan Singh Memorial Award (2001), Silver Jubilee Commemoration Medal (2001) by the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), Dr B.P. Pal Memorial Award (2003), ISCA Gold Medal for Excellence in Science (2006), Gold Medal from Ministry of Agriculture of Armenia (2006), Life Time Achievement Award of 'Agriculture Today' (2008), Dr A.B. Joshi Memorial Award (2012) presented by Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh, Prof. Kanniyan Memorial Award (2012), Gold Medal from Ministry of Agriculture of Vietnam (2012) and Krishi Shiromani Samman by Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd. (2013). He received a Padma Bhushan Award in 1998. He also received a Norman Borlaug Award on 5 January 2006 from President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at a function in the 93rd Indian Science Congress held in Hyderabad. Paroda is a Fellow of almost all Science Academies of India, beside Fellow of Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Tajik Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Armenian Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He is also elected Honorary Member of the American Society of Agronomy and the Crop Science Society of America. He has been conferred honorary D.Sc. Degree by 15 academic institutions including Ohio State University, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Scientific Council of Agricultural Academy, Republic of Azerbaijan and State Agricultural Universities at Pantnagar, Kanpur, Jorhat, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Udaipur, Varanasi, Srinagar, Meerut, Bhubneshwar, Ludhiana and Dharwad. He also received Honorary degrees from Agricultural Universities of Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. International Crop research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad has named its Gene Bank after him as 'Rajendra S. Paroda Gene Bank'. Currently, he is serving as the Chairman of the Trust for Advancement of Agricultural Sciences (TAAS) and as the Chairman of Haryana Farmers' Commission.

References

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Rajendra Singh Paroda

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Rajendra Singh Paroda claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Rajendra Singh Paroda before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Rajendra Singh Paroda ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Rajendra Singh Paroda

In research: Rajendra Singh Paroda appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Rajendra Singh Paroda in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Rajendra Singh Paroda is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1942 births, Agriculture in India, Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Rajendra Singh Paroda outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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