Residential Address

3A/E, New Keshav Nagar,
Roop Sagar Road, Udaipur 313001 (Raj.), India

The Bodoland University caters need of higher educational empowerment of people of all castes, creeds and religions in BTR. The University fosters academic spirit through value based quality education to mould youths as the pillars of tomorrow with supreme knowledge and skill for remarkable progress of BTR. The University is engaged in need-based Research & Development activities which integrates indigenous knowledge and rich socio-cultural heritage with emerging modern scientific technology for socio-economic betterment of community in general, and people of BTR in particular. To excel in teaching, research and new technologies, the University strictly adheres to ethics of research, and research findings are published majorly in peer reviewed high impact scholarly journals. The University follows pedagogy of five pillars of the NEP-2020 viz. Accessibility, Quality, Equity, Accountability and Affordability along with skill vocational education, employability and CBCS, etc. The University curriculum encompasses theoretical and practical exposure and skill development as per NEP-2020. The University incubation centres facilitate start-ups in technology and entrepreneurship for the stakeholders. It is also the endeavour of the University to provide international exposure to students and faculties through exchange and collaborative teaching and research programmes with foreign Universities by signing memorandum of agreement. The University adopts tangible academic calendar for regularity of academic session. To trickle down the benefit of higher education to the community, the University reaches out to the people by disseminating pertinent knowledge for quality life, living standards and health. The University has pivotal role in making BTR as an academic hub by imparting quality education, at par with other national /international Universities and Institutions. Foreign students, particularly from SAARC countries, also get opportunity for higher studies and quality research, considering strategic location of the University in Assam state.

Governance of the University is based on the principles of transparency and strict compliance to the Bodoland University Act, Statute and the Ordinance.

Ramification of imparting higher education using ICT efforts and the intensive role of the University in human resource development which is also supported by PM-USHA is quite recognized at national and international level.

Academic and administrative experience:

• Formerly Emeritus–Scientist (CSIR), Government of India at Mohanlal Sukhadia University (MLSU), Udaipur.
• Served as Professor of Physics for 14 years at MLSU, Udaipur (total teaching experience 33 years).
• Founder Director, Institute of Engineering and Technology, MLSU
• Former Director, Research, MLSU
• Former Chairman, Faculty of Engineering, MLSU
• Former Chairman, Faculty of Science, MLSU
• Former Dean, PG Studies, MLSU
• Former Dean, University College of Science, MLSU
• Former Head, Department of Physics, MLSU
• Former Director, University Computer Centre, MLSU
• Former Advisor, International Students
• Former Officiating Vice-Chancellor, MLSU, Udaipur
• Former Associate Dean, ADSW and Programme Officer NSS in University College of Science, MLSU
• Former Radiological Safety Officer_DAE, MLSU
• Former Chairman, Board of Studies
• Former Coordinator, DST-FIST (level 2) and UGC-DRS
• Former Officer Incharge, Univ Science Instrumentation Centre
• Prof. Incharge Planning Section
• Acted as Member/Chairman of Several Selection Committees and Academic bodies and policy making committees in Universities/Colleges

Field of Specialization:

Condensed Matter Physics, Photovoltaics, Radiation Physics, Magnetism, Band structure calculations, Compton scattering, DFT calculations, IKS, etc.

Research and International Experience:

i) Post-Doctoral Research (BOYSCAST Fellowship, 1992-93, DST, New Delhi) at:

• University of Warwick, U.K. – Developed instrumentation for synchrotron radiation.
• Universite de Paris-Sud (LURE), Paris (multiple visits), France and SPring-8, Hyogo, Japan– For Research in high-resolution and magnetic Compton spectroscopy (multiple visits).
• Himeji Institute of Technology, Japan (multiple visits)
• European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, France (multiple visits)
• KEK Synchrotron Facility, Japan
• Daresbury Synchrotron Facility, UK
• Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore

National Committee Memberships (GOI):

• Member, Programme Advisory Committee (PAC), NSTMIS, DST-New Delhi.
• Member, WOS-A Expert Committee, DST, New Delhi – Research Grant for Women Scientists.
• Member, DST-Young Scientist Committee (Physical & Mathematical Sciences).
• Member and office bearer of several Scientific Societies and Vigyan Bharti

Academic Collaborations & Research Supervision:

• International Collaborations: 17
• National Collaborations: 17
  • 33 in Physics (3 from Rajasthan University, Jaipur)
  • 2 in Computer Science
  • 1 in Electrical Engineering (MNIT, Jaipur)
• Major R&D Projects Executed: 21 (Funded by DST, SERB, CSIR, UGC, AICTE, UGC-DAE-CSR, BRNS, RUSA-2, DRDO, etc.).
• Coordinator DST-FIST (level-2), UGC-SAP at MLSU
• Key Note/Invited Speaker/Inaugurator of many national/international conferences/symposia/work shops

Publications & Research Impact:

• Conference Proceedings: About 214 publications.
• Books Authored: 3
• Scopus Citations: 2528, h-index 23 and Research Gate Citations 2717, h-index 25 and also Google Scholar citations 2939, h-index 27
• Reviewer for International Journals: Nature, Wiley Journals, PRB, PRL, APL, IOP, Elsevier, Springer journals, etc.
• Associated with many Scientific Societies

Honours/ Awards:

• International Scientists (National level Award), conferred by Late Sundar Singh Bhandari Trust, Rajasthan
• DST-BOYSCAST Fellow, GOI
• Chartered Physicist, Institute of Physics, London

Staff Position of the Vice Chancellor Office: