11 chairs set up to honour women scientists on Science Day to be stablished at institutes across country

One of the nation's leading woman physicists, a pioneer in India's climate change programs, and the first Indian girl to get a science doctorate. Some of India's famous— though perhaps overlooked— women scientists will be taken out of the obscure annals of the historical past and into the spotlight ahead of International Women's Day.

Eleven early 20th-century women scientists have been honored by science and know-how ministries and women and youth development in whose honor chairs will be placed in institutes across the country. There's a huge range of fields— from cytogenetics to natural chemistry to social sciences. Only female researchers will take up positions and receive up to Rs 1 Crore analytical fund.

The women scientists in whose name these Chairs have been instituted are: Dr Archana Sharma from agriculture and allied research, Dr Janaki Ammal from biotechnology, Dr Darshan Ranganathan from immunology, Dr Ashima Chatterjee from organic chemistry and phyto-medicine, Dr Kadambini Ganguly from medicine, Dr Irawati Karve from anthropology, Dr Anna Mani from meteorology, Dr Rajeshwari Chatterjee from engineering, Dr Raman Parimala from mathematics, Bibha Chowdhuri from physics and Kamal Ranadive from biomedical research.

The idea behind setting up a chair is to bolster research within the field of the individual person it is named after having excelled in. ' Chairs will encourage girls to follow the paths of scientists ' Mother Teresa is the only girl from India after whom a Chair was instituted.

Last month, women's ministry and youth development suggested women's names, women's chairs throughout the discipline

"We hope this will help to highlight women who have been at the forefront of science and encourage young girls to follow their paths," Minister Smriti Irani instructed women and youth on transition. The committee which includes the regular director of DRDO (aeronautical programs) Tessy Thomas and the chairman of AICTE Anil Sahasrabuddhe during the following week—will establish the institutes the place the Chairs will be arrange.

These 11 Chairs will be arrange for an preliminary interval of 5 years, which might be prolonged on the idea of analysis necessities.