Out of all the papers selected for oral and poster presentations, the selection committee selected 7 best papers for the awards as per the following break up:

• Best Oral Presentations – 1 paper was selected for Best Oral Presentation.
• Best Poster Presentations – 7 papers were selected for Best Poster Presentations.

The award consisted of a citation and a memento.

The List of Awardees is as follows:

Sr. No.	Award	Name of the Awardee	Institute	Title of the paper presented
C4 Oral Presentations
1.	Best Oral Presentation	Mr. Narendra Ojha	ARIES, Nainital, India	"Variations in the Ozone Distribution over Northern India: Influences of Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange and Biomass Burning"
C4 Poster Presentations
Theme A - 'Atmospheric Chemistry in South Asia'
2.	Best Paper Award – First Prize	Mr. Parth Sarthi Mahapatra	Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology, Bhuvaneshwar, India	'Surface ozone variation at Bhubaneswar.'
3.	Best Paper Award – Second Prize	Mr. G. N. Nikhil	Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, India	'Atmospheric chemistry of surface ozone formation at an urban tropical site in India- Recent observations of temporal trends and special events.'
Theme B - 'Black Carbon and Aerosols in Asia'
4.	Best Paper Award – First Prize	Ms. TOH Ying Ying	Malaysian Meteorological Department, Malaysia	'The influence of meteorological factors and biomass burning on surface ozone concentrations at Tanah Rata, Malaysia.'
5.	Best Paper Award – Second Prize	Mr. Raman Solanki	ARIES, Nainital, India	'Nocturnal observations of aerosol backscatter profiles using LiDAR over central Himalayas and the validation of CALIPSO data.'
Theme C - 'Air Quality and Weather'
6.	Best Paper Award – First Prize	Mr. Chinmay Kumar Jena	Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune	'Impact of fire emissions in South Asia on Air Quality in the region.'
7.	Best Paper Award – Second Prize	Ms. Nivedita Chaudhary	Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi	'Assessment of differential responses of three mung bean cultivars with respect to growth, reproductive and yield parameters against ambient and elevated levels of ozone.'
Theme D - 'Climate and Monsoon'
8.	Best Paper Award – First Prize	Mr. A. V. Sijinkumar	Govt. College, Kasaragod, Kerela	'Fate of aragonitic pteropod in a changing atmospheric chemistry: looking from past to present.'
Poster Presentation – Consolation Prizes
1.	Best Paper -Consolation Prize	Mr. Manish Agrawal	I.I.T. Kanpur, India	'Characterization of carcinogenic compounds from incense burning at Places of Worship.'
2.	Best Paper -Consolation Prize	Ms. Anja Reiter	Institute fur Physik und Atmosphere (DLR), Germany	'Aircraft measurements in the large-scale outflow of the Asian Summer Monsoon in the UTLS during the ESMVal campaign.'
3.	Best Paper -Consolation Prize	Mr. Gaurav Govardhan	Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore	'Simulation of Aerosol Concentration Over Indian Region with an Online Chemistry Model.'
4.	Best Paper -Consolation Prize	Ms. Anjum Rasheed	Fatima Jinnah Women University, Pakistan	'Ambient Air Quality in Islamabad, Pakistan: A Monitoring Based Analysis.'