Venkaiah Naidu honored 15 women scientists
Written by : SMTV24x7 | Sun, Apr 02, 2017, 02:00 PM
Vijayawada Hyderabad March 02: 15 women scientists from ISRO and DRDO were honored at Swarna Bharat Trust on Saturday by Venkaiah Naidu.
Speaking on the occasion, Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu said that women are dominating the scientific sector and said there is a wrong notion that men are academically superior to women in Mathematics, Science and Technology. But, he said, intelligence is gender-neutral and girls are entering science and technology, medicine much more than boys.
He quipped that men scientists can be absentminded, but women have no such luxury since they strike a perfect work-life balance. The women scientists who were felicitated include Dr. Tessy Thomas, Director, ISRO; Pramila, Project Director, DRDL; Shashikala Sinha, DRDO; Shwetha, DRDL; Mahaswetha Bhakshi, DRDO; K V Sujatha, DRDO; Sneha Rani, DRDO; Rama DRDL;
Latha Shanthi, Manager, Sriharikota; Jessey Verghese, Sriharikota; R Sree Vidya, Sriharikota; K S Lakshmi, Sriharikota; K R Madhavi, Sriharikota; Rani Surendran from Sriharikota. Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment T C Gehlot, Puducherry Governor Kiran Bedi, Chief of DRDO Dr. G Sateesh Reddy, AP health minister Dr. Kamineni Srinivas Rao and others also participated.