Awards and Fellowships:

• Obtained merit  scholarship upto HSSC
• National Scholar for 5-years 
• Obtained Junior, Senior and PDF, CSIR, New-Delhi
• Father T.A. Mathias award, 1989 by  All  India  Association

     For Christian Higher Education,  New Delhi.

• Satpura Award in the field of Environment  conservation by Y.M.C.A., 1992.
• Fellow  of Academy of Environmental  Biology.
• Awarded  SERC visiting fellowship by DST,  NewDelhi,  1996
• Honorary research associateship for 2-years, Sydney, Australia
• INSA  visiting fellowship,  1998
• Visiting scientist  award (from April-June, 1999), Turin, Italy 
• Medini  Award for book on Herbal Medicines,  by  Govt of India, June 5,  2001
• Associateship for 3-years by TWAS, Trieste, Italy to work on AM fungi in Brazil, 2003
• Visiting Scientist,  Department of Bioenergetics,  University of Geneva, Switzerland,

     May-June, 2004

Membership of the societies:

• Life-member Indian Science Congress Association, Calcutta.
• Life-member society of Mushroom Research, Himachal Pradesh.
• Life-member Academy of Environmental Biology, Muzaffarnagar, U.P.
• Life member Society of  Basic and Applied Mycology