Mirza Javed Beg, Scientist ‘G’ and Project Director (Logistics) has been elected as Vice Chair of Council of Managers of National Antarctic Program (COMNAP)

Mirza Javed Beg, Scientist ‘G’ and Project Director (Logistics) has been elected as Vice Chair of Council of Managers of National Antarctic Program (COMNAP).

A veteran Antarctican, member of the First Indian Scientific Expedition to South Pole also participated in 10^th, 13^th, 19^th, 24^th, 25^th, 30^th and 34^th Indian Scientific expedition to Antarctica. A geologist by profession started his career with Geological Survey of India (GSI) in 1987 and worked in various capacity including initiation of enterprise portal for GSI. He joined NCAOR in 2007 as programme Director for Antarctic Logistics. He has been managing the operation for the Indian Antarctic programme and was project incharge of construction of Bharati Station at Antarctica. To his accolade he is recipient of National Mineral Award, Ministry of Mines (Government of India) for the year 2004, Recipient of NFP fellowship (Netherlands Fellowship Programme) for 2000-01, Leader of the 2nd Special Task Force to Larsemann Hills in 2004-05 etc. to name a few.