Profile Overview
Following a brilliant academic career, joined Central Engineering Services and retired as Director General (Works), Central Public Works Department.
Has Versatile experience in all facets of civil engineering right from planning, designing, project management, monitoring, litigation, arbitration etc.
Has worked on many prestigious projects in India and abroad. He has to his credit construction of large number of Buildings, Bridges, Road Works, Water Supply and Sewage Treatment plants, special construction like Chimneys, Towers, Irrigation Structures, Dams, Barrages etc.
Headed the construction department of Govt. of India and acted as Technical Advisor to the Govt. of India in construction matters.
Has played a leading role in many professional bodies. He was Chairman of the Institution of Engineers (India), Delhi State Centre and Vice–President during 1999. He was President, Institution of Engineer (India) during 2003–2004.
Is the Founder President of the Indian Buildings Congress, Past Vice–President of the Indian Roads Congress and Past Vice–President of the Indian Council of Arbitration. He was President of the Indian Institution of Technical Arbitrators.
Is Fellow of the Institution of Surveyors, Indian Institution of Bridge Engineers, International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineering, Institution of Valuers, Consulting Engineers Association of India and many others.
Has organized and participated in a large numbers of National and International Conferences, Seminars and Workshops. He has a number of technical papers to his credit.
Various organisations of the Government of India and Delhi Government gave assignments for looking into specified problems
Associated with all Dispute Resolution Bodies in India i.e. Indian Council of Arbitration, International Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution, International Council of Consultants, Indian Society for Construction Law etc. Borne on their panels of Arbitrators & Adjudicators.
Have handled large number of arbitration cases in their processing and final disposal. Have acted as Arbitrator in about two hundred cases.
Have deep understanding of FIDIC Conditions and Disputes Resolution Mechanism. Delivered lectures on Dispute Resolution in National and International Conferences and also as faculty in Training Institutes.
Have been Chairman /Member of Dispute Review Boards in Highways, Irrigation and Sewerage Projects of large magnitude / Adjudicator in many Building Projects
Procurement Specialist from December 1999 to January 2001 for the work of Consultancy project “Country Procurement Assessment Report (CPAR), India, India–2000” for the World Bank
Team Leader for the study on “the Operation of Dispute Review Boards” conducted for World Bank from November, 2005 to June 2006.
Team Leader for the project of “Standard Operating Procedures for Dispute Boards in India” conducted for World Bank from August, 2015 to April, 2016.
Acted as a Consultant to World Bank for their RCH Project.