ACHIEVEMENTS / AWARDS

• Best Poster Award for the paper titled “Flowering Plants of Idukki Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Ghats, Kerala” at the International Biodiversity Congress held at the Forest Research Institute of India, Dehradun, from 4–6 October 2018.

• Best Paper Presentation Award for the paper titled “The Diversity and Distribution of Osbeckia L. of Kerala” at the National Seminar on Flowering Plant Reproduction & Diversity, organized by Fatima Mata National College, Kollam, on 9–10 January 2015.

• First Rank Holder in M.Sc. Botany Examination (2014), Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam.

• Second Prize in the Dr. V. J. Dominic Endowment All Kerala Inter-Collegiate M.Sc. Botany Project Presentation Competition, organized by the Kerala Botanical Society at St. Peter’s College, Kolencherry, on 18 October 2014.

• Qualified the CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) for Lectureship in Life Sciences, conducted by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (Government of India), June 2014, with an All India Rank of 43.

• Qualified the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in Life Sciences, conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2014, with an All India Rank of 141.