Senior Consulatant

Dr Sanjay Dahasahasra, Former Member Secretary Maharashtra Jeevan Pradhikaran (MJP) has put in 35 years of deep experience in mapping and analyzing Maharashtra’s water resources from river basin / sub basin to the water supply line of dams, rivers, canals, water bodies, storage reservoirs, urban, rural population, using advanced GIS, relational data base management and water balance encompassing urban, rural population, agriculture use , livestock , industrial etc . He had published a book Integrated water source management for Maharashtra which is used for planning, development, and management of water resources with neatly drawn shape files covering 5 major river basins, 62,621 micro water sheds and 1531 watersheds. Is presently the chairman of water and waste water manual being published by Ministry of Housing and urban affairs for last 2 years and presently about to be circulated to all states and ULBs for their guidance on water , waste water and policy needs aspect for government water utilities on behalf of Ministry of housing and Urban affairs . He is a PHD in water treatment and has high competence in modelling techniques using GIS . Her has won several international awards . MOHUA have published the following manuals authoured by him

• Advisory Note, ”GIS mapping of Water Supply and Sewerage Infrastructure” available at web site of Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA).
• Guidelines for Planning, Design and Implementation of Urban Water Supply Schemes towards Equity, Quality and Sustainability with a Road Map for 24×7, which is under finalization
• Guidelines for Planning, Designing, Implementation and O&M of Regional Water supply Schemes Covering Schemes for few Villages, many Villages, Peri Urban Villages and Enroute Villages of Urban

Consultant Finance / PPP

Srikanth has over 40 years of experience as a finance professional. His experience includes investment banking, managing the financing of the first greenfield water and wastewater public private partnership project in Asia (in Tirupur, Tamil Nadu) and consulting in the area of infrastructure financing. Srikanth is now involved with Asian Development Bank as a consultant.

Srikanth has been involved in several pioneering initiatives in the field of field of leasing and public private partnership projects, including the water and wastewater project on PPP basis in Tirupur, where he managed the funds mobilisation for the project and was also involved in the implementation of the project in a time bound manner.

Since 2008, Srikanth has been a consultant with a number of multilateral institutions and government agencies, involved in the implementation of projects in various sectors including water and wastewater, urban transport and energy, including transmission, distribution and renewable energy.  Apart from India, Srikanth has executed consulting assignments in Bhutan, Bangladesh and Philippines.

Education Qualification: B.Com., PGDM (IIM Ahmedabad), AICWA

Consultant 

Education:

• Master of Technology M Tech (Environmental Engineering)
• Bachelor of Engineering (civil)

Consultant to New Tiruppur Area Development Corporation limited.,Tiruppur

Preparation of detailed design for sewer collection system including zoning and hydraulic design, pumping stations and pumping mains including preparation of hydraulic and process sheets for Sewage Treatment Plants of including preparation of detailed hydraulic designs, structural designs ,drawings ,detailed estimates and tender documents .

Review of the proposed design and redesigning the sewer collection network as per the revised levels and revised alignment proposed of UGSS

Preparation of detailed design for sewer collection system including zoning and hydraulic design, pumping stations and pumping mains including preparation of hydraulic and process sheets for Sewage Treatment Plants hydraulic designs, structural designs ,drawings and detailed estimates

Partner Fox & Mandal legal consultant for Concession contracts

Ryas & Rajagopalan CA to Steady Taps

Advisory associates for Steady-Taps

23 years of experience in economic and social research, putting in place systems for governance and decision-making, Last 13 years in conceiving, designing and managing information and communications technology projects for natural resource management, research, governance, monitoring, evaluation & learning in varied sectors including urban development, rural development, industrial clusters, water & sanitation, environment & climate change and financial inclusion.

• Well versed with financial and regulatory reporting to governments, donors and achieve project targets with effective managerial control
• Hands on experience in projects related to sustainable development with strengths to network among governance practitioners, thought leaders and research communities as well as grassroots level participants; have conceived and managed participative development programmes
• Leadership role in project conception, delivery, team management with resources cutting across different domains
• Mentorship to start-ups and small-scale industries, with specific focus on value chain

Educational Qualifications

• Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Management

1996 – 1999 Institute of Financial Management and Research (IFMR) Chennai

• M A – Econometrics

1994 – 1996 University of Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Specialisations: International economics and Applied econometrics.

• Bachelor of Arts, Economics

1991 – 1994 Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prashanthi Nilayam, Andhra Pradesh

• Currently pursuing PhD on “Information Systems for Environmental Management”

Since 2018, Department of Environmental Sciences and Management, Bharathidasan University

Advisory associates for Steady-Taps

Ph.D. Environmental Sciences, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India (2006)

Defence Research and Development Organisation Junior Research Fellowship

SPECIALISATION: Public health, Environmental Exposure Assessment using Spatial Statistics and GIS and RS tools, Environmental factors for disease occurrence and transmission through GIS/RS techniques, Image Processing analysis, Spatial Statistical modeling involved in Epidemiological Analysis in particular vector borne and infectious diseases.  

GIS Analysis for Air and Water quality;

GIS-based regional estimates

Waste Management and Biomining, Solid Waste management – Environmental and Health Impacts; Vehicular Emissions and related disorders

Advisory associates for Steady-Taps

Ph.D Environmental Management, Bharathidasan University, Trichy 

Software: ArcGIS, QGIS, RStudio, Google Earth Engine,Programming Languages: R, Python, BI Tools: Power BI, Tableau

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• GeoAI and spatial statistics
• Environmental epidemiology
• Data Science – Natural Language Processing, Social Network Analysis
• Urban Analytics
• Data Analtics consultant for STEADY-TAPS

Financial Modelling Expert