A. Continuing Education Programme Conducted
- Organized a refresher course on Project Planning and Preparation for the Senior Engineers of PHE Departments of all the states four times. The course was sponsored by CPHEEO, Ministry of Urban Affairs, New-Delhi.
- A series of 4 Capacity Building Programs on ‘Water Demand Management in Major Cities of M.P.’ have been organized for Municipal Engineers of Major Cities of M.P. in the year 2006 and 2007. Sponsored by UN Habitat under its water for Asian Cities programs.
B. Short Term Courses Organized
- Have conducted a winter school on the topic 'Advances in Stochastic Hydrology and its Applications' sponsored by ISTE in December 1998. Despite these has been involved in the organizing committees of 4 summer/winter schools conducted at the Institute.
- Coordinated a Short Term Course on the Topic, ‘Remote Sensing and GIS Applications to Civil Engineering’ Sponsored by TEQIP Phase II.
C. Conferences Organized
- Indian Geotechnical Conference – 2001.
- 40th Annual Convention of IWWA Held at Indore in Year 2006.
D. Lectures/Talks Delivered
1) In the refresher course on "Hydrology and its Applications" at Academy of Administration, Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal. (1987).
2) In ISTE Summer school on "Systems Applications in Civil Engineering (1991)", at S. G. S. I. T. S., Indore.
3) In the refresher course on "Reservoir Operation and Watershed Modeling (1992)" at Academy of Administration, Bhopal.
4) In ISTE Winter School on "Computer Applications in Surface and Ground Water Hydrology.” (1996). at S. G. S. I. T. S, Indore.
5) In the ISTE Winter School on “Stochastic Hydrologic Modelling: A Computer Oriented Approach.” (1997) at S. G. S. I. T. S., Indore.
6) In short term course on “Safety of Public Health Engineering Structures” (1997 and 1999) at S. G. S. I. T. S., Indore.
7) In short term Course on "Project Planning and Preparation" (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003) at S.G.S.I.T.S., Indore.
8) In Short term Course on "Recycling and Reuse of Waste" (2002, 2003) at S.G.S.I.T.S, Indore.
9) In ISTE Sponsored Summer Course on "Application of Stochastic Hydrology in Irrigation" at CET, Rajasthan Agriculture University, Udaipur June 2004 for 2 days in 4 sessions on Various computational Aspects of Time Series Analysis and Stochastic Control of Reservoirs.
10) In short term course for M.P. Rural Road Development Agency on ‘CD works and Road Side Drainage in Rural Roads’.
11) In Capacity Building Program for Water Demand Management on ‘Flow Measurement and Leakage Detection’ and ‘Rain Water Harvesting’ 2011.
12) In ISTE Short -Term Course on ‘Engineering Optimization’ at Aurangabad on the topic, ‘Non Linear Programming’. July 2013.
13) In ISTE Short -Term Course on ‘Engineering Optimization’ at Aurangabad on the topic, ‘Goal Programming and its Applications’. July 2013.
14) In TEQIP II Short Term Course held at Indore on ‘Remote Sensing and GIS Applications to Civil Engineering’ on a topic ‘Hydrological Applications of remote Sensing and GIS’ 8-12th January 2014.
15) In TEQIP II Short Term Course held at Aurangabad on Statistics and Probability Applications to Engineering on topic ‘Hypothesis Testing and Statistical Inference’ June 2014.
16) In TEQIP II Short Term Course held at Jalgaon on Statistics and Probability Applications to Engineering on topic ‘Hypothesis Testing and Statistical Inference’ June 2014.
E. Membership of Professional Bodies
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Member, Indian Water Resources Society
Member, Institution of Engineers, India
Member, Indian Geotechnical Society
Member, Indian Society for Technical Education
Member, Indian Society of Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power
Member, Indian Water Works Association
Member, Indian Society for Remote Sensing
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F. Books, Monographs, Periodicals & Journals Editor
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In 1999 edited a book of collection of papers presented during Public Hearing on "Water Resources and Impact on Malwa Region" which was jointly organized by Peoples' Commission on Environmental Development, New Delhi and Centre for Environmental Protection Research and Development, Indore.
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Prepared a Monograph on the topic Malwa Nimar Water Partnership highlighting issues and concerns for water problems and plan for development in the drought stricken western part of M.P. in Year 2000. The monograph was presented in Stockholm Water Week, 2000.
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Recently edited a book in Hindi namely, 'Paryavaran Bodh' for University Course on Environmental Education for all the courses for the Universities of M.P. under the aegis of a voluntary organization, 'CEPRD'.
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Also co-edited a book on ‘Stochastic Hydrology for Use in Agriculture’ and has been published by Himanshu Publication, Udaipur.
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Presently working as a managing editor for a monthly magazine “Paryavaran Vikas Patrika” Published by CEPRD
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F. Outreach Activities
- Working as a trustee cum Secretary at a Voluntary Organization, ‘Centre for Environmental Planning, Research and Development’ (CEPRD).
- Actively involved in the issues and problem solutions of water resources problems in the region.
- Associated with the Investigation work in relation to the failures of 4 stop dams cum bridge sites with the officers of Local Administration for Jilla Panchayat.
- Assisted the Jilla Panchayat for preparation of a project proposal on, "Revitalization of Water Tanks in Indore District" the estimated cost of project is Rs. 15. Crores.
- Also one project 'Vikas ki Gangotri' for water conservation works in rural areas having tribal population. These projects are extremely useful in water resources management in the District.
- In a workshop organized by Indore Municipal Corporation on problems and solution for citizens I presented Status Paper on Water Resources Management aspects of water supply system in the city. This has drawn attention of people as well as administration for the solution of the problems.
- Attended World Water Symposium 2000 at Stockholm and discussed the issues and concerns of the water problems in Malwa Nimar Region of M.P. Helping people, Govt. and Non Govt. organizations social institutes to adopt the water conservation and artificial recharge.
- Working as a member of District level committee of Rajiv Gandhi Watershed Development Mission and Stop Water Campaign of Govt. of M.P.
- Keep on delivering lectures on issues of water conservation and management to public in rural and urban areas.
- Working as a STA Member for Rural Roads in M.P. I keep on delivering lectures on environment and water management in various meetings and camps organized for women, children and college level students.
- Also keep writing on the issues of environment and water resources in magazines.
- Recently working for revival project of River Khan with Prof. Tare of IIT Kanpur. The organization CEPRD is also actively involved in spreading the awareness amongst the masses for reduction of pollution in River Khan.
