Education

1970: Graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Honorary Positions ( National)

1983: Consultant and Expert, Advisory Board on Energy, Government of India to develop plans for dealing with the cooking energy crisis Member, Technical Advisory Committee, Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development, New Delhi

1984: Member, Group on Domestic Fuel Supply, Advisory Board on Energy, Government of India, New Delhi
1986: Member, Regional Committee for the Northeastern Region, North Eastern Council,
Ministry of Home Affairs, Shillong.
  • Member, Research Advisory Committee, Institute of Social Studies Trust, New Delhi.
  • Member, Board of Ecology and Environment, Government of Jammu and Kashmir, Srinagar

1986-92: Member, Board of Directors, Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, Ahmedabad.

1987: Member, Study Team on Fuelwood and Fodder for the Eighth Plan, Planning Commission, Government of India.
  • Member, Expert Committee appointed by the Supreme Court to rehabilitate miners displaced by closure of limestone quarries on environmental grounds
  • Member, Steering Committee, Science and Technology Project on the Integrated Vector Control of Malaria
  • Member, Committee on Content and Processes of Education, particularly at the school stage, Ministry of Education, New Delhi.
  • Member, Management Committee, Gandhi Bhawan, University of Delhi, Delhi.
  • Member, Organising Committee, Commemoration of 40th Anniversary of India’s independence and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Centenary, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India, New Delhi.
  • Member, Steering Committee, State of the World TV Series, University Grants Commission, New Delhi.

1988: Chairperson, Committee to assess suitability of a location of a gas-based fertiliser plant at Chauth-ka-Barwara near Sawai Madhopur, Ministry of Environment and Forests.

  • Member, State Environment Protection Council, Government of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad.
  • Member, National Council for the Social Audit of Technology Missions, Government of India, New Delhi.

1988-93: Member, Advisory Board, Mud Village Society, New Delhi.

1988-90: Member, National Land Use and Conservation Board, Ministry of Agriculture, New Delhi

1989: Member, Board of Studies, School of Planning, Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad.

1989-91: Member, National Wastelands Development Board, Ministry of Environment and Forests, New Delhi

1990: Member, Executive Advisory Board, Ladakh 2000, Leh.

  • Member, Policy Advisory Group on Wood Substitution, Ministry of Environment and Forests, New Delhi.

1990-91: Member, Haryana Afforestation Task Force, Government of Haryana, Chandigarh,

  • Ministry of Environment and Forests, New Delhi.
  • Member, Governing Board, Action for Food Production (AFPRO), New Delhi
  • Member, Award Committee, Indira Gandhi Paryavaran Prurashkar, Ministry of Environment and Forests, New Delhi.

1991: Chairperson, Society for Environmental Communications, New Delhi

  • Member, National Supporting Council, Chakriya Vikas Pranali, Palamu.

1991-93: Vice-President, Alumni Association, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

  • Member, National Wastelands Development Board, Ministry of Environment and Forests, New Delhi.

1992: Member of the Indian official delegation to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro

1992-: Honorary Editor, DOWN TO EARTH, a fortnightly newsmagazine on science, technology and environment, Society for Environmental Communications, New Delhi.

1992-94: Member, Delhi State Council for Science and Technology, Government of Delhi, New Delhi.

1993: Member, Expert Group to consider the issue of people’s participation in forest management,

  • Ministry of Environment and Forests.
  • Adviser, Asian Academy of Film and Television, New Delhi
  • Member, Advisory Committee of NGOs for the Promotion of Non-Conventional Energy,
  • Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources, New Delhi
  • Member, Award Committee, Indira Gandhi Paryavaran Prurashkar, Ministry of   Environment and Forests, New Delhi.

1993-95: President, Alumni Association, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Member, National Afforestation and Ecodevelopment Board, Ministry of Environment and Forests, New Delhi

1994: Member, National Environment Council, Government of India

  • Member, Standing Committee on Environment, University Grants Commission, Ministry of Education, New Delhi
  • Member, Committee for Selection of Swami Pranavananda Saraswati Award, University Grants Commission, Ministry of Education, New Delhi.
  • Member, High Level Editorial Advisory Board, Biotech Consortium India Ltd., New Delhi

1995: Member, Advisory Committee for Energy and Environment, Indira Gandhi Institute for Environment and Development, Bombay.

  • Member, Working Group on Environment for the Ninth Five Year Plan, Planning Commission.
  • Member, Working Group on Forestry for the Ninth Five Year Plan, Planning Commission.

1996: Member, National Steering Committee for the Environment Sector in the Ninth Five Year Plan, Government of India.

1996-: Member, National Committee to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of India’s Independence, Government of India, New Delhi.

  • Member, Task Force on Control of Air Pollution, Government of Delhi

1997: Chairman, Advisory Group on Farmers, Trade Unions and NGOs, National Committee to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of India’s Independence, Government of India, New Delhi.

  • Visitor’s (President of India’s) nominee on the Selection Committee for the post of professor in Centre for Energy Studies and Centre for Rural Development and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
  • Chairperson, Committee to assess the environmental impact of the jetty project of M/s Sanghi Industries in Kutch, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India, New Delhi.

1997-: Member, Implementation Committee, National Committee to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of India’s Independence, Government of India, New Delhi.

  • Member, National River Conservation Authority, Government of India, New Delhi
  • Member, Working Group on the Prospects of Leasing out Degraded Forest Lands to the Private Enterpreneurs/Forest Corporations, Planning Commission, Government of India, New Delhi.
  • Member, Standing Committee, National River Conservation Authority, Government of India, New Delhi
  • Member, Development Advisory Council, Partners in Change, New Delhi
  • Member, Working Group on the Framework Convention on Climate Change, Ministry of Environment and Forests, New Delhi

1998: Member, Implementation Monitoring Committee, Plastic Wastes Management Task Force,

  • Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India.
  • Member, Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control Authority for the National Capital Territory, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India.
  • Member, Steering Committee, India Water Partnership, New Delhi.
  • Member, Sub-Committee on Education Channel, Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India), New Delhi
  • Member, National Committee to Observe the 50th Anniversary of the Martyrdom of Mahatma Gandhi, New Delhi
  • Member, Committee on Vehicular Pollution, Government of Delhi
  • Member, Environment Action Plan Committee, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India.

1999: Member, Standing Committee on the Equitable Sharing of Benefits, Government of Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal