Who among the following has been awarded with the 'Life Time Excellence' Award in Earth System Science in July 2020 by Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India ?

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Correct — D, Ashok Sahni. In the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) 'National Awards for Excellence in Earth System Science' announced in July 2020, the Lifetime Excellence Award went to Professor Ashok Sahni, an eminent Indian vertebrate palaeontologist and geologist long associated with Panjab University, Chandigarh. He is renowned for his work on Indian dinosaur fossils and dinosaur-egg nesting sites (the Lameta/Deccan beds), biostratigraphy and the evolution of India's early mammals. The MoES gives this award to a distinguished scientist for a lifetime of contributions to Earth-system science.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) A distinguished atmospheric scientist, but he is not the 2020 Lifetime Excellence awardee — that recognition went to Ashok Sahni.  (b) Associated with remote-sensing / geospatial science, but he is not the recipient of this lifetime award.  (c) A forestry and remote-sensing scientist; he is not the 2020 MoES Lifetime Excellence awardee.

Concept: The Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) confers annual National Awards for Excellence in Earth System Science, with a top 'Lifetime Excellence Award' for a career of distinguished research, alongside outstanding-scientist and young-researcher awards. 'Earth System Science' spans the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and solid earth (geology, seismology).

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