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1. Editorial Board Member-Sustainable Environmental Research

2. Editorial Board member-The Open Waste Management Journal

3. Advisory Board Members-Environmental Geotechnics Journal, Institute of Civil Engineers, London

4. Invited to deliver 21st Prof B K Ramiah Memorial Lecture, Karnataka Geotechnical Centre, Indian Geotechnical Society, IISc, Bangalore, March 2013

5. Judge for the CII Environmental Best Practices Award 2013, November 2013

6. Member, High level Expert Committee for CSIR Award for S&T Innovations for Rural Development 2011, September 2012

7. Convenor, Indo-French Workshop and Conference on Science, Technology and Humanities, IISc, January 2010

8. Member of jury to evaluate and recommend suitable stand-alone drinking water purification systems to be installed in 30,000 schools in 2008-09 under the Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission (RGNDWM), July 2008

9. Member Project Assessment Committee India-Ontario (Canada) Collaborative Industrial R&D Program under Department of Science & Technology (DST), February 2012

10. Chairman Committee to select research projects for awards under “Development and Promotion of Rural and Household Technology” funded by NRDC (National Research Development Council), November 2009

11. Panelist at the 5th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics, Cardiff University, Wales, UK, June 2006

12. Panelist at the 5th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics, Cardiff University, Wales, UK June 2006

13. Key Note Lecture at Second International Conference on Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering in Arid Lands, Riyadh University, Saudi Arabia October 2002

14. Key Note Lecturer at Second International Conference on Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering in Arid Lands, Riyadh University, Saudi Arabia October 2002

15. Co-chaired Technical session at Second International Conference on Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering in Arid Lands, Riyadh University, Saudi Arabia October 2002

16. Invited to present a paper at International Workshop on Chemo-Mechanical Couplings of Clays, Martea, Italy, June 2001

17. Key Note Lecture at First International Conference on Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering and Management in Arid Lands, United Arab Emirates University, November 2000

18. Key Note Lecturer at First International Conference on Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering and Management in Arid Lands, United Arab Emirates University, November 2000

19. Co-chaired Technical session at First International Conference on Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering in Arid Lands, United Arab Emirates University, November 2000

20. International advisory Committee member-First International Conference on Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering and Management in Arid Lands, United Arab Emirates University, November 2000

21. Moderator Commonwealth Science Council (CSC) Knowledge Networks on Environmental Issues of Fluoride Contaminated Ground Water

22. Core Member Commonwealth Science Council Knowledge Network on Arsenic pollution of groundwater in west Bengal and Bangladesh