Indian Geophysical Union has institute “Prof. Devenra Lal Best Paper Award” from 2013. The best paper will be selected for the current year from publications of Journal of Indian Geophysical Union that appeared in the four issues of the calendar year.
| 2013 | Dr. Omkari Prasad, Dr. O.P.Singh |
| 2014 | Dr. TRK Chetty |
| 2015 | G. Uday Bhaskar, A. Srinivasa Rao, G.V.S. Prasad and B. Shravan Kumar |
| 2016 | MS Chaudhari, M. Majumdar, V. Bagade and S. Ranga, Uma Vadapalli and N.Vedanti |
| 2017 | Dr. C D Reddy and Dr. Mahesh N Srivastava |
| 2018 | Prof. Rima Chatterjee and Dr. Dip Kumar Singha |
| 2020 | Dr.S.P. Maurya and Dr.N.P. Singh |
| 2021 | Dr. Ayanangshu Das, Dr.Jyotirmoy Mallik & Dr.Rasis Shajahan |
| 2022 | Dr. S. Bangaru Babu, A V Kulkarni, M Lakshmana & Dinesh Gupta |