Member of Technical Committees

• Convener, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Preparation of Geotechnical guidelines for seismic microzonation, Govt of India.
• Member, Imphal-Jiribam Railway Line Technical committee headed by Mr. Jaruhar, Ministry of Railways, Govt of India, 2011-12.
• Member, Programme advisory committee (PAC) for the nationally.
  (coordinated programme on Landslides, Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India, New Delhi, period: 2010-2012.)
• Member, Programme advisory committee (PAC) for the nationally.
  (coordinated programme on seismicity, Ministry of earth sciences, New Delhi, period: 2008-2010.)
• Member, National Steering Committee (NSC) for seismic microzonation of Selected Cities in India, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt of India for the 11th Plan Period.
• Member, Programme Advisory and Monitoring Committee (PAMC) for the Nationally coordinated Programme on Seismicity, Feb, 2006- Feb 2008, Department of Science and Technology, Seismology Division, Govt. of India.
• Member, Expert committee on “Microzonation of urban center Bangalore”, DST, Govt of India, 2004-2008.
• Member, Expert committee on “Microzonation of Delhi”, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt of India, 2008-2012.
• Coordinator for Civil Engineering, National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) Funded by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India (2003-2007).
• Member, Committee on Soils and Rock Instrumentation (AFS20), Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Division of National research Council (NRC), USA for 2007-2009.
• Member, of TC 29 Laboratory Stress Strain Strength Testing of Geomaterials, International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering ( ISSMGE) for the year 2001-2008.
• Member, Joint Working Group on Geotechnical Engineering for Disaster Mitigation and Rehabilitation (JWG-DMR) hosted by Southeast Asian Geotechnical Society.
• Elected Vice president of Indian Society for Earthquake Technology (located at IIT Roorkee) 2015-2017.
• Elected executive committee member of Indian Geotechnical Society, 2015-2016.
• Fellow of Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS)
• Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India)
• Fellow of New York Academy of Sciences (USA)
• Life Member of Society for Shock Wave Research, India.
• Life Member of International Society of Rock Mechanics (ISRM)
• Life Member of Indian Society for Earthquake Engineering and Technology
• Member of International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engg
• Member of Japanese Geotechnical Society
• Member of Japanese Society of Civil Engineering
• Life Member of Indian Society for Rock Mech. and Tunneling Technology (ISRMTT)
• Life Member of Indian Society for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.
• Elected Executive committee member of ISRMTT, 1998-2002.
• Elected executive committee member of Indian Geotechnical Society 1998-2000
• Governing Council Member, ISRM India 2006-2008.
• Treasurer of Karnataka Geotechnical Centre, 1996-2002.
• Secretary, Karnataka Geotechnical Center, Bangalore Chapter 2002-current
• Academic Council Member, Anna University, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu
• Member, Board of Studies for many Engineering Institutions.
• State Road Safety Council, Govt. of Karnataka
• ITS Project Evaluation Committee, Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation
• Technical Evaluation Committee, BMTC
• Technical Evaluation Committee for projects of Directorate of Urban Land Transport (DULT)
• Advisory Board Member, DULT
• SWM Empower Committee, Directorate of Municipal Admn, Karnataka
• NTDP Sub-Committee Member, PS to Govt of Karnataka, IDD
• Infrastructure Expert Committee 2010-11, Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce (BCIC)

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