Dr Gurdev Chand, Assistant Professor (Plant Physiology) in the Division of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Basic Sciences, SKUAST Jammu who has been conferred with highly prestigious Scientific Educational Research Society (SERS) award for Innovative Scientist of the Year Award- 2017 during five day international conference on “Innovative Approaches in Applied Sciences and technologies” held at Nanyang Executive Centre, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore from June 19-23, 2017.