<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;" align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #002060;">Association with Professional Bodies</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin-left: 18.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; color: black;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">&middot;<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Fellow of the Institution<span style="color: black;">&nbsp;of Engineers and&nbsp;</span>Senior Member<span style="color: black;">&nbsp;of IEEE</span></span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif; color: black;">.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: -4.5pt;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; color: black;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">&middot;<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Life members:<span style="color: black;">&nbsp;Indian Society for Technical Education, Punjab Science Congress, Indian Concrete Institute, IRC, Indian Geotechnical Society</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: -4.5pt;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; color: black;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">&middot;<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Member Board of Studies<span style="color: black;">, Civil Engineering, Panjab University, Chandigarh and Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 11.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; color: black;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">&middot;<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif; color: black;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Nominated non-official State Level Working Committee member&nbsp;<span style="color: black;">&ndash; Department of Town and Country Planning, Government of Himachal Pradesh.&nbsp;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 11.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; color: black;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">&middot;<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif; color: black;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Actively involved in industrial consultancy and technology development to provide suitable solutions in problem areas such as waste minimization, reuse or recycling of waste generated.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 11.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; color: black;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">&middot;<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif; color: black;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Nominated by the Quality Council of India<span style="color: black;">&nbsp;to develop criteria for the accreditation and assessment agency to be empanelled by UGC.&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 18.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol;">&middot;<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Executive Member, Indian Concrete Institute, Punjab<span style="color: red;">&nbsp;</span>&amp; Haryana State Centre, Chandigarh.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 18.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><strong style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #002060;">Awards&nbsp;</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: -13.5pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-font-kerning: .5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif; color: black;">Felicitated by the Government of Himachal Pradesh for &ldquo;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Excellence in Promotion of Environment Conservation and Sustainable Development<span style="color: black;">&rdquo;&nbsp;</span>(2020-2021).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: -13.5pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-font-kerning: .5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif;">&ldquo;Time 2 Leap awards under the category Best Professor of the Year &ndash; Socio Environment Enterprises<strong>&rdquo;&nbsp;</strong>awarded by Sh. Pratap Chandra Sarangi, Hon&rsquo;ble Minister of State &ndash; MSME, Government of India&nbsp;&nbsp;(2020-2021)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 11.0pt 35.3pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif; color: black;">&nbsp;&ldquo;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Aqua Foundation Excellence Award 2020 under the category of Sustainable Development in Construction and Infrastructure Sector<span style="color: black;">&rdquo;, XIV World Aqua Congress International Conference (2020)&nbsp;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 11.0pt 35.3pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif; color: black;">&nbsp;&ldquo;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Outstanding Concrete Technologist 2020<span style="color: black;">&rdquo; by the Indian Concrete Institute and Ultratech Cement Ltd.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 11.0pt 35.3pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif; color: black;">&nbsp;&ldquo;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Most Innovative Vice Chancellor<span style="color: black;">&rdquo; by Golden Aim Awards for excellence and leadership in education (2020)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 11.0pt 35.3pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif; color: red;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Best publication<span style="color: red;">&nbsp;</span><span style="color: black;">&ldquo;Water Audit of Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh &ndash; A Zero Discharge Campus&rdquo; International Conference on Maintenance and Intelligent Asset Management held at Manipal Academy, Bengaluru Campus&nbsp;</span>(2020).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: -13.5pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-font-kerning: .5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif; color: black;">Felicitated by the Government of Himachal Pradesh for &ldquo;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Excellence in Promotion of Environment Conservation and Sustainable Development- Individual Category<span style="color: black;">&rdquo;&nbsp;</span>(2019).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21.3pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -21.3pt; line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif;">National Builder Award<span style="color: black;">&nbsp;by Rotary Club of India&nbsp;</span>(2018).&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 11.0pt 35.3pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif; color: red;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Best publication&nbsp;<span style="color: black;">&ldquo;</span>Feasibility of using paper industry sludge containing calcium carbonate in manufacturing bricks&rdquo; at 2nd International Conference held at Amity University, Noida (2018).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 11.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Excellent Contribution to the Education Sector<span style="color: black;">&nbsp;by CMAI Association of India (2017).</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 11.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Cambria, serif;">11.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Best publication<span style="color: red;">&nbsp;</span>&ldquo;Finite Element Modelling of Reinforced Concrete Corners Under Opening Bending Moment&rdquo; by Institution of Engineers&nbsp;and E P Nicolaides Prize<strong>&nbsp;</strong></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif;">(Springer Publication) (2013)</span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Cambria, serif;">.</span></strong></p>