Each year NMRS will give Jharana Rani Samal Research Scholar Award to a research scholar, based on the nominee's academic achievements. From the year 2022, the title of the award has been modified from Jharana Rani Samal Best Student Award to NMRS-Jharana Rani Samal Research Scholar Award. In October 2024, the executive committee of NMRS framed guidelines of eligibility for this award, which is given below.

A student must be nominated for the above award by their research advisor, who is a member of NMRS.

The nominee must be a registered PhD candidate/scholar of any Indian university/research institute.

The definition of the PhD candidate/scholar is that he or she should NOT have submitted the thesis as of 31^st October of the year of the award.

All original research publications by the nominee in magnetic resonance and its applications from the day he/she has registered as a PhD candidate/scholar until October 31^st of the award year will be considered.

Further, the nominee should have original research publications as the first author or corresponding author that extensively researches or utilises magnetic resonance. Joint first authors will be considered as first authors.

The publication should have full citations, such as the journal name, year, volume, and page numbers. Any other formats, such as "manuscript accepted," "manuscript submitted," "manuscript under preparation," "manuscript under review," "manuscript in press," etc. will not be considered. Also, reviews, chapters in books, general articles etc. would not be considered for the award.

Nominations not fulfilling the above criteria will not be considered for the award.

The awardee will be invited to present the work in the next NMRS symposium.

Awardees 2024: Ms. Neha Yadav, IISER, Berhampur 2023: Ms. Madhurima M Kulkarni, IISc, Bangalore 2022: Mr. Muhammed Shafeek O.H, IISER, Trivandrum 2021: Ms. Dipita Bhattacharyya, Bose Institute, Kolkata 2020: No award 2019: Ms. Humaira Ilyas, Bose Institute, Kolkata 2018: Mr. Arnab Dey, IIT-Madras 2017: Ms. A. Lakshmipriya, NMR Research Centre, IISc, Bangalore 2016: Mr. Rajiv Kar, Bose Institute, Calcutta University, Kolkata 2015: Mr. Abhinav Dubey, NMR Research Centre, IISc, Bangalore 2014: Mr. N. Lokesh, NMR Research Centre, IISc, Bangalore 2013: Mr. Sachin R Chaudhari, NMR Research Centre, IISc, Bangalore