Ajay Kumar Sonkar

Dr. Ajay Kumar Sonkar is India's independent research scientist. His name has been announced for Padma Shri, one of the national civilian honors given on the occasion of 75th Republic Day, in recognition of his outstanding scientific achievements in the field of science and engineering. These achievements include the technology of making pearls through state-of-the-art tissue culture. Study papers have been published about his works in many prestigious international scientific journals.

Sonkar had attracted the attention of the scientific community of the world by making black pearls in his work land Andaman and Nicobar. Born in Allahabad, Dr. Sonkar has developed the technique of making pearls using tissue culture technique in sea oysters two thousand miles away from the sea.