Former Director School of Planning and Architecture,New Delhi                             1996-2004

Asst.Professor/ Professor                                                                                   1977-2004

He has been involved in the field of planning and development of human settlements within environmental sustainability for more than 4 decades now. He is conversant with the technology involved in environmental management, conservation and provision of environmental services through practice and teaching. 

He is associated with several committees of both national and state government dealing with urban development and environment. As a practitioner he is consultant to several government, semi-government, and international organisations such as World Bank, ADB and GTZ. He has been professional consultant to various national and international consulting organization in environment policy and planning, urban planning and housing, on areas like formulation of environmental safeguards and guidelines; environmental impact assessment for Townships, Airports, Infrastructure projects; environment management plan for industrial areas; environmental assessment for infrastructure projects; technical assistance for project identification and development; spatial planning of townships and new towns; and so on.  

Expertise:

He was Urban Environmental Planner for development of the sub-city called Dwarka for 1 million people in Delhi - to achieve a plan, which respected the environment, while accommodating the people. He has been urban development consultant to Delhi Development Authority for Master Plan for Delhi 2021, for urban renewal. He was consultant on urban environment to CES on a project of ADB for planning the development of Vientiane, Capital of Laos - to provide infrastructure services, i.e. Water supply, disposal of waste and road infrastructure.

He was an expert on environmental assessment as behalf of World Bank to Bangladesh for their Dacca project, and on Thimpu Urban Development Project. More recently, He was also involved in formulation of environmental guidelines for Urban and Regional Planning, for GTZ and for assessing Environmental and Ecological considerations for Regional Plan for Delhi, for NCRPB.

He has authored several books (e.g. Urban Environment in Crisis, Environmental Quality of Human Settlements) and contributed to few others (e.g. Consuming Cities, Shahjahanabad, Shells Shelter Networks, Environmental Education and Sustainable Development etc). He has  actively contributed large number of articles in various aspects of architecture, urban development and planning and environment to a number of journals.