{"id":663,"date":"2001-04-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-04-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/04\/03\/2001-04-03-malaria-researcher-gets-green-scientist-award\/"},"modified":"2001-04-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-04-03T12:00:00","slug":"2001-04-03-malaria-researcher-gets-green-scientist-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/04\/03\/2001-04-03-malaria-researcher-gets-green-scientist-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaria Researcher Gets Green Scientist Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.indiaabroaddaily.com\/2001\/03\/31\/31malaria.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, March 31, 2001: India&#8217;s first Green Scientist Award has been conferred on researcher V.P. Sharma for devising environment-friendly strategies to battle malaria, which affects around 2.5 million people in the country every year. Sharma was given the award by the Center for Science and Environment (CSE), a non- governmental organization (NGO) here, in recognition of his &#8220;path-breaking efforts to develop bioenvironmental strategies to control the malaria-bearing mosquito.&#8221; Unlike traditional high-cost pesticide oriented anti-malaria initiatives, Sharma is credited with devising strategies that serve a two-fold purpose of disease prevention and employment generation. Sharma&#8217;s per capita method cost comes to about 15 US cents, 6.5 cents less than the government spends on pesticide-centered methods. Instituted by CSE, the biannual Green Scientist Award honors scientific efforts in the crucial but ignored area of environmental science.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, March 31, 2001: India&#8217;s first Green Scientist Award has been conferred on researcher V.P.,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}