New Delhi, Jan 10: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today presented the Petrotech society's life time achievement awards for contribution to the petroleum sector to late Dhirubhai Ambani and padmashree Amiya Bhushan Dasgupta and Padmshree N B Prasad.

The awards were given away at a glittering function at the Petrotech 2003 conference here. The award for late Dhirubhai Ambani, Reliance industries founder, in recognition of his achievements in the downstream petroleum sector, was received by reliance group president V Balasubramaniam.

The lifetime achievement award for the upstream was given to former oil and natural gas corporation chairman N B Prasad and that for geological sciences to Amiya Bhushan Dasgupta. Dasgupta was the first Indian managing director of Oil India Ltd and was also part-time member of ONGC.

The award carries a sum of Rs two lakh and a citation.

Bureau Report