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Dr.M.N.BUCH An eminent beaurocrat and Urban Planner

Dr. M. N. Buch joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1957 and was allotted the Madhya Pradesh cadre. Sought voluntary retirement from service in October, 1984, eight years prior to the date of superannuation.

Was Vice Chairman, National Commission On Urbanisation, Chairman, Inquiry Committee on the functioning of the Slums Department of Delhi State Government, Delhi Development Authority and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. Chairman, Lutyens Bungalow Zone Committee of the Government of India and of the Committee on the Heritage Zone of Mehrauli. Also served as Chairman of the Empowered Committee for the New Vidhan Sabha building in Madhya Pradesh.

Written a large number of articles and papers on issues ranging from urban affairs to rural development, afforestation, environment, watershed management, housing, municipal administration, governance, public administration, constitutional law and political and international affairs.  Book by M.N. Buch

Dr.V. D.Garde ______________
A renowned senior most IT Expert

Ex General Manager and Head Computer Centre, BHEL, Bhopal, Fellow Member, Advisor IT and Director General GIS Academy, NCHSE.

Experienced in the areas of IT application, H.R.D. and design and implementation of numerous IT and training programmes in Advisory capacity;

played key role in establishment of several Govt. and corporate agencies and institutions from the point of both technical and administrative inputs.  

He was honoured with national award for his contribution to IT sector Development.

Mr.RAJAN DEB A Wind Data Analysis GIS Expert

A young, energetic and enthusiastic Director of the firm who innovates and works rather single handedly, on GIS Applications for Wind Resource Mapping. A person whose GIS works in wind energy sector are unparalleled by any individual or institution except that some matching pieces are seen sometimes from few large scale international institutions.

His organisation CECL has many experts of Wind Energy working for providing technical support and consultancy. Many projects have been established and many have recovered from losses because of their contributions and expertise. Thus, this organization had set several examples of successful works of data analysis and recommendations for consultancy projects based on traditional methods earlier, until Mr. Rajan Deb took the task in hand to computerize the processes to ascertain improved efficieny and precision in analyses.

Mr. Rajan not only computerized the mathematical complex steps involved in wind data processing, but he converted the mapping related steps (which is but a necessary component of Wind energy computations) to GIS also quite effectively.

Introducing the GIS applications with quality, he also did create several outputs for direct use in the field integrating variety of information. What he innovatively managed to do more into the mechanical processes was a highly scientific and modern method of Wind Energy estimations using Meso-Mapping - a technique that only few would know and perhaps none would have exercised successfully in our country.

It was a small set up and big dreams. His exemplary works even drew the attention of big players in the International fora, who once feared his productions and approached for tie-ups of partnering, which he proudly refused on face to everyone's surprise.

Moving ahead with sucess, one after another, recently he hasalso completed a mega project of Wind Data analysis and site identification for wind masts installation in the seven states of North East India.

Mr. Rajan continues to innovate and apply techniques for best results in the most unpredictable discipline of wind energy estimations – that’s his expertise.

Dr.C.S.RATHORE
A devoted GIS Professor and Application Expert

Dr. Rathore is a senior faculty member in the Indian Institute of Forest Management, IIFM, Bhopal. Working as the Head of the IT and GIS department, he is a qualified post-graduate in science from University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. He has done Doctorate  in Environmental Science.
Started his career serving as Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Aberdeen, UK, he possesses a large experience of teaching of over 20 years.He was also a faculty at the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. He has many international and national papers to his credit. He has also consulted for prestigious organizations like FAO and DFID in India and abroad.

One of the most outstanding contributions made by him to the GIS industry is a Digital Image Processing Simulator which he himself has authored.  DIPS is being widely used by universities/institutes for educational purposes in teaching Image Analysis across the world. This software may be downloaded from the link http://www.iifm.ac.in/downloads/dips/ for use for non-commercial activities.

He has been pursuing various GIS application activities and is known for his exemplary works in the domain of GIS in Forestry, GIS in Environmental Management, GIS in Natural Resource Management, etc. He is strong supporter of Open Source development.

Ashis Mondal
Leadership through performance.

Ashis Mondal, is the Founding Director of Action for Social Advancement (ASA), a not for profit development organization in India. He is a Post Graduate in development studies from a reputed management school in India and completed higher studies on development management from abroad. ASA works for over 1000 villages of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar provinces of India for development of   livelihoods of small farmers through community driven livelihood initiatives. A significant portion of ASA’s work involves land and water resources development, agriculture extension and organizing small farmers into producers’ organization for better market accessibility. The organization has about 200 professionals from various fields. He led the organization to win the “India NGO National Award-2008”.

His key skills include Livelihood development, social and institutional analysis,  project design and management, imparting participatory training, social research, policy analysis and advocacy. He is associated with the networks of various civil society organization in India. He has played active role along with others in changing development policies including those related to natural resources management in India.  

He is associated with the World Bank, FAO, ADB and several national and international organizations as consultant. He has co-authored books “Monitoring for Outcomes in Community Driven Projects”, published by The World Bank, Washington DC, 2007; and “A Handbook on using Participatory Monitoring and Learning Tools”, published by the Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 2007. There are more than 20 technical papers authored by him in various journals.

His is an executive body member of the Global board of Round Table on Responsible Soy Association, Argentina, a multi-stake holders platform for improving soy bean value chain (www.responsiblesoy.org), and currently holds the position of Treasurer of RTRS. The RTRS has over 150 member organizations globally representing reputed organization from the constituency of industry, producers and civil society groups.

Dr.Jitendra Jain:
Superintending Engineer (Geohydrology)
State Water Resource Agency(SWaRA)

A Ph.D. in applied Geology/geo-hydrology from Sagar University and a PG Diploma passout from IIRS, Dehardun, Dr.Jitendra Jain has a vast background of expemplery work in the GIS and Remote Sensing fields. He also undertook Overseas Post graduate course on Hydrological Information System (HIS) and in 1997 under World Bank aided Hydrology Project (Phase-I).

His professional experience includes works related to Hydrogeology & Remote Sensing and GIS, Overall planning, development, conservation and management of surface water and Ground Water Resources, conjunctive use of surface and Ground Water, Water logging, salinity, rainwater harvesting and artificial groundwater Recharge in watershed of Madhya Pradesh state covering items like:
- Submitted Draft Groundwater Act to control over exploitation of Groundwater Resources in Madhya Pradesh State.
- Presented Draft State Ground Water Policy in a National Seminar.

He is presently handling:
World Bank Aided Madhya- Pradesh Water sector Restricting Project and
World Bank aided Hydrology- Project.

He is making valuable contribution to the field of study and research related to Hydrogeology in the state through his constant dedicated efforts.

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