Zonal Chapter will organize a contest among the zonal members during their Zonal Chapter's Meeting for preliminary selection of contestants. Only two names from each Zonal Chapter will be recommended by Zonal President for final contest to be held during Annual Meeting of the Society.

 

The age limit for the contestant would be 35 years. Selected contestant will provide an abstract upto 200 words alongwith brief biodata to the Secretary, Indian Phytopathological Society through Zonal President.

 

Abstracts of all the contestants participating in the Annual Meeting will be published in the journal.

 

The contestants selected from each zone will compete at national level and the Society will award a medal to Award recipient and Commendation Certificate to other contestants at national meeting. Society will publish the paper of awardee. The award recipient will submit full-length paper (as per IPS guidelines) for its publication in Indian Phytopathology. There is no restriction of the age of co-author, if any. The paper should be submitted on floppy alongwith a hard copy.

All the contestant/recipients should be the member of the Society during the year of presentation. Associate Members are not eligible for contest. The certificate for award will be given only to the person presenting the paper.

 

The contestants will have to give the under mentioned certificate furnishing the age proof and bonafide work done by the contestant, not presented & published earlier.