This was instituted in the year 1995 and is given to the author or author of the best paper published in the journal of Geological Society of India during a calendar year in any branch of Earth Science. The paper for the award should have wide appeal and open up new avenues of research in the respective field.

• 1997: John K Zachariah, Manoj K Mohanta and V Rajamani
• 1998: M K Samanta, C P Gavarshetty & Ashish Kumar
• 1999: A D Singh,Cochin
• 2000: U Manikyamba,Hyderabad
• 2001: U Raval & K Veeraswamy
• 2002: Deepak Chandra Srivastava
• 2003: K S Misra,Hyderabad
• 2004: J F Moyen, M Jayananda, Anne Nedelac, Herve Martin, B Mahabaleshwar & Bernard AuvrayFrance, Bangalore
• 2005: A Rai Choudhari & D B Guha,Jaipur
• 2006: A Vasanthi and k Mallik,Hyderabad
• 2007: Fareeduddin,Bangalore
• 2008: A.R. Sridhar, H.C. Tewari, V. Vijaya Rao, N. Satyavani and N.K. ThakurNGRI, Hyderabad
• 2009: K. Vijaya Kumar and C. Leelanandam,Hyderabad
• 2010: M. Jayananda1, T. Miyazaki2, R.V. Gireesh1, N. Mahesha3 and T. Kano2New Delhi1, Japan2 and Bangalore3