Kathmandu, Nov 10:
Prof Dr Hem Raj Panta, a chemist from Nepal, has been nominated as a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) on behalf of South Asia. TWAS is a world-class academic institution of science and technology.
Dr Panta will get an opportunity to elect and get elected representing in the Academic Assembly of the international organisation in the capacity of its life member, it is stated. The organisation currently has around 1,400 Academic Members.
Dr Panta is the Chief of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Pulchowk Campus, Institute of Engineering, the Tribhuvan University. He has been nominated as the Fellow on behalf the least developed country on the basis of evaluation of the study and research, and publications that he has done in his area of knowledge.
Panta is also the president of Nepal University Teachers Association, Pulchowk Campus chapter.
Before this, Prof Dr Dayananda Bajracharya, Prof Dr PK Jha, Prof Dr Bishalnath Uprety and Prof Dr Bijaya Panta have been nominated as TWAS Fellow from Nepal.
Dr Panta said that this important responsibility that he has got on behalf Nepal will help motivate the development of science and technology sector in Nepal.
TWAS, with its head office in Italy, was founded in 1983 under the leadership of Nobel laureate physicist from Pakistan Abdus Salam with the objective of exchanging skills and knowledge in science and engineering realms.
Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS)
