Prof. Jayant Vishnu Narlikar awarded the first ASI Govind Swarup Lifetime Achievement Award

Current Context: Prof. Jayant Vishnu Narlikar. He is a renowned Indian astronomer and cosmologist who founded the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) in Pune. He has also contributed to various aspects of astrophysics including the Narlikar-Hoyle theory.

• He has recently received the first Astronomical Society of India (ASI) Govind Swarup Lifetime Achievement Award in Pune. The award was announced earlier this year at the 41st meeting of the ASI held at IIT Indore, but Prof. Narlikar was unable to travel to receive it.
• The President of the ASI, Prof. Dipankar Banerjee, personally handed over the award to Prof. Narlikar and felicitated him.
• The award is named after Prof. Govind Swarup, another eminent Indian astronomer and instrument builder who founded the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) in Pune. He passed away in 2020 at the age of 91.

Question:

Q.1 What is the name of the award that Prof. Jayant Vishnu Narlikar received recently?
a. ASI Govind Swarup Lifetime Achievement Award
b. ASI Jayant Narlikar Lifetime Achievement Award
c. ASI C.V. Raman Lifetime Achievement Award
d. ASI Homi Bhabha Lifetime Achievement Award