• Nominated member, Academic Council of Rajendra Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Bihar as an eminent Agricultural Scientist.
• Delivered an invited lecture - Euro Virology, July 02 – 04 2018, Vienna, Austria.
• Evaluation, McKnight Foundation Research Project
• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Foreign Research Fellowship, 1971-1974, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
• Smithsonian Institute Fellowship, 1979, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA
• USDA, FERRO Grant, 1986, Visiting Professor, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
• Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research Fellowship, 1992, to present an Invited Research Paper in 1st European Conference on Grain Legumes, Augers, France
• Marie Curie Bursary, European Union, 1993, Visiting Professor, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
• McKnight Foundation USA, Grant, 2000, for Multi country Project Development
• Prof. S.N. Das Gupta Memorial Lecture Award, Indian Phytopathological Society, New Delhi, 2003
• Prof. M.V. Nayudu Memorial Award, S.V. University, Tirupati 2010
• Oration Lecture to Faculty & Students on the eve of University of Gorakhpur Convocation, 2011
• First Prof. K.S. Bhargava Memorial Lecture Award, University of Gorakhpur, Gorakhpur, 2012
• Prof. Kameshwar Sahai Bhargava Oration Award, Indian Virological Society, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, 2014