| Associated with project team
for construction, commissioning, technical services, pollution control and safety
of green field chemical fertilizer project in public sector at Barauni (Bihar)
1973-82.
Assisted Bureau of Industrial Costs and Prices, Government of
India, New Delhi in technical studies research activities and pollution potential
of various chemical industries 1982-85.
Implemented initiatives for young
scientists to contribute through frontline research, evolved and implemented schemes
to enable engineers and scientists to contribute to finding solutions to problems
of weaker sections of the society through research, development, design and adaptation,
implemented scheme to use expertise of senior scientists in Science & Technology
Department, Govt. of India 1985-97.
Scientist `G' and Adviser Science and
Technology Department, Govt. of India since 1997; involved with drawing up innovative
programmes to communicate science and technology, develop capacity for informed
decision-making in the community and stimulate scientific temper among the people;
national programmes conceived and implemented including promotion of voluntary
blood donation, environmental awareness through waste recycling, Year of Scientific
Awareness, International year of Physics. Promoting a national programme to encourage
creativity amongst youth and developing a coordinated programme for outreach activities
as part of the Year of Planet Earth programme.
Since Dec. 2000, Head of
Rashtriya Vigyan Evam Prodyogiki Sanchar Parishad with additional charge of Science
& Society Division from December 2001 to June 2004.
Member of the sub
group for 11th Five Year Plan for Rural Technology programmes of CSIR, member
Working Group of 11th Five Year Plan for Human Resource Development in Scientific
Departments, Chairman of Expert Committee for Exhibits of Pushpa Gujral Science
City, Kapurthala, Member Punjab State Council of Science & Technology, etc.
Member,
Editorial Board of Indian Journal of Science Communication, Bharatiya Vaigyanik
Evam Audhyogik Anusandhan Patrika and Chief Editor RVPSP Sandesh and Wide Spectrum. |