AWARDS / FELLOWSHIPS / SCHOLARSHIP
· Gold medal for first position in SSLC examination in the school (1981)
· Govt. of India - National Merit Scholarship for higher studies (1981-88)
· Govt. of India - GATE Scholarship for Postgraduate studies (1990-92)
· Govt. of India - Research Scholarship for Ph.D. studies (1992-95)
· German Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral research (1996-98)
· Taiwan National Science Council Fellowship for Postdoctoral research (1999-2000)
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· Best Poster Paper Award in the 12th International Stockholm Water Symposium for the paper Poverty Alleviation and Social Development Through Integrated Watershed Management (with Mr. Anupam K. Singh & Prof. F. Nestmann, University of Karlsruhe, Germany), August 2002.
· DAAD Research Fellowship by Government of Germany under the special research grants for developing countries for one month during June/ July 2007.
· Certificate of Merit Award by The Institution of Civil Engineers for the paper published in the Journal of Institution of Engineers (India) entitled Hydrodynamics Modeling of Estuaries Using an Implicit Finite Element Model, 2006-2007.
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Received Stockholm International Water Institute, SIWI, Sweden Fellowship to attend World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden in 2005 and 2007.
* Jalvigyan Puraskar" for the year 2009, instituted by Indian Society for Hydraulics, for the paper entitled 'Optimal Pumping Policy for Aquifer Decontamination by Pump and Treat Method Using Genetic Algorithm, Sharief M.S.V., Eldho T.I. & A.K. Rastogi, published in the ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Published in 2008 by Indian Society of Hydraulics.
* "Jalvigyan Puraskar" for the year 2011-12, instituted by Indian Society for Hydraulics, for the paper entitled Meshless Point Collocation Method for 1D and 2D groundwater flow simulation, M. Meenal & Eldho T.I., published in the ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Published in 2011.
* Agricultural Engineering Division Best Paper Award by The Institution of Civil Engineers for the paper published in the Journal of Institution of Engineers (India) entitled 'Evaluation of Operating Policies of Irrigation Projects in Upper Godavari Basin in Maharashtra', A. Garudkar, S.D. Gorantiwar, A.K. Rastogi & T.I. Eldho, 2011-2012.
* Best Lecture Prize, 2013 at India Water Works Association, Mumbai, 46th Annual Convention, Bangalore.
* 2014 Best Theoretical-Oriented Paper, Journal of Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste of ASCE, EWRI, USA.
* Certificate of Appreciation by The Institution of Civil Engineers for the paper “A Modified AMC-Coupled Runoff Curve Number Model published in the Institution of Engineers (India) Annual Volume II (2016) entitled “Water Conservation and Management in India”, (Authors: R.K. Sahu, S.K. Mishra & T.I. Eldho.
* Eminent Water Resources Scientist – 2017, Institute by Indian Water Resources Society, India, award given at IIT Roorkee on 16th February 2018, during International Conf. Sustainable Technologies for Intelligent Water Management.
* Best paper awards in the HYDRO-2020, in 25th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering, NIT Rourkela in association with the Indian Society for Hydraulics (ISH) held during 26th to 28th March 2021, for "Identifying Contaminant Sources in Groundwater Using Kriging Based Surrogate Model and Particle Swarm Optimization", by Aatish Anshuman & T.I. Eldho.
* Best paper awards in the HYDRO-2020, in 25th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering, NIT Rourkela in association with the Indian Society for Hydraulics (ISH) held during 26th to 28th March 2021, for "Effect of Inline Spacing Between Twin Bridge Piers on the Scour Pattern", by B.A. Vijayasree, T.I. Eldho & B.S. Mazumder.
