Deputy General Manager (NbS-Biodiversity)

• Aug 2022 - Present

Senior Manager (NbS)

• Dec 2021 - Jul 2022

Project Scientist

• Oct 2021 - Dec 2021

Worked on development of Landscape Management Plan for India’s First River Link Project, Ken-Betwa River Linking Project. The project is highly ambitious and is the first of its kind in India. To highlight the importance of this landscape, the Panna Tiger Reserve known globally for the successful reintroduction of Tigers from locally extinct to 50+ individuals, sits right next to the proposed project. My primary responsibility in the project is to organize stakeholders consultations and to validate the proposed interventions in the Integrated Landscape Management Plan and also to develop pilot sites to demonstrate the proposed interventions and their ecosystem benefits gain. Show less

Senior Manager

• Apr 2021 - Oct 2021

My responsibilities included grant proposal development focusing at the Nature Based Solution Nbs for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation strategies. I was also part of the IUCN's Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM) project coordinating the identification of degraded landscapes in the states of Haryana, Karnataka, Nagaland, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra; Development of exhaustive list of Forest land Restoration (FLR) interventions for the identified Drivers of Degradation; Spatial Prioritization of sites for the implementation of Forest land Restoration (FLR) interventions; Computing the Cost-Benefit Analysis and identification and mapping of Financial Opportunities at the state and at the central level to the proposed FLR interventions.I was also involved in the IUCN's Agriscapes project working with the agricultural communities in the district of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. My work here included primary data collection and interviews from various stakeholders including farmers, agriculture and horticulture departments, forest department, rural development department and other line agencies to understand the problem tree and also to map the ecosystem benefits from the nearby natural forests to the agricultural fields. The project was aimed at providing NbS solutions to improve the ecosystem services benefits and also to minimize the impacts of the existing problems faced by the agriculturists in the landscape including Human-Wildlife Conflict, Groundwater Unavailability, Inaccessible direct markets, ets. Show less

Assistant Manager - Forestry

• Dec 2020 - Apr 2021

Project Scientist

• Mar 2015 - Dec 2020

My work involves understanding drivers of landscape change & fragmentation in the Indian Himalayan region using remote sensing & Geographic Information System, and to assess forest fragmentation and connectivity, and to provide inputs in capacity building programmes and teaching in Landscape ecology and Visualization Laboratory; to collate and organize a spatial database for the Indian Himalayan region; designing of field data collection schema and to collate field data, and to provide inputs in capacity building programmes and teaching in Landscape ecology and Visualization Laboratory. Show less

Assistant Professor

• Dec 2011 - Feb 2015

My work involves to conduct assigned undergraduate and graduate courses; to participate in curriculum development; serve on various department committees; demonstrate and supervise lab exercises; Assess, review and evaluate student activities and progress; to build a relationship with the student and consult as necessary with each subject teacher to alleviate any source of difficulty; to monitoring code of conduct and academic progress of each student; to supervise all the lab activities including procurement and periodic maintenance check of survey equipment; teaching advanced survey techniques within the School of Civil Engineering Show less