Jammu : Born and brought up in Jammu, Ankush Magotra is all set to participate in the forthcoming 37th Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica (ISEA). He will be one of the members to join scientific and logistics teams from India to participate in 37th –ISEA. National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR) is India’s premier R&D institution responsible for the country’s research activities in the Polar and Southern Ocean realms.
Before selection he was sent by NCAOR to AIIMS, for clearance from Medical board and later to Pre induction training for Antarctica to M&SI, ITBP, Auli where he came up with bright colours and bagged the best trainee award among other trainees.
Ankush, a student of Army Public School Nagrota and National Institute of Aeronautical Engineering, Dehradun was passionate to bring pride not only to his family but for the country also. So, to turn his dream into reality National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR) became the medium. It is an autonomous research and development institution of the Ministry of the Earth Sciences responsible for the country’s research activities in the polar and Southern Ocean realms.
Ankush who is a member of logistics team for which there was only one post in India which was nailed by him and now will provide logistics support to scientific research team so that climate couldn’t be a barrier in their investigation.
