Professional Recognitions

  1. Coordinator, State Technical Agency, PMGSY-Gujarat, Government of India (wef April,2015)
  2. Member, General Body, National Rural Roads Development Agency, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India (WEF August,2015).
  3. State Quality Monitor, PMGSY, Gujarat State (2004-2006).
  4. Chairman, Technical Session 2, First Indo – US Symposium on Mass Transit and Travel Behaviour Research (MTTBR08), Civil Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, 12 – 15, February, 2008
  5. Member Secretary, Technical Committee on Urban Roads, Streets and Transport (H-8), Indian Roads Congress (2008-2011, 2011-14).
  6. Regional Coordinator (North West Region) & Member, Supra Institutional Network Project (SINP) Development of Indo- Highway capacity Manual   (HCM), CSIR- Central Road Research Institute, New Delhi with funding from Planning Commission of India under 12th Five Year Plan
  7. Member, Pilot Projects Committee, Indian Roads Congress, New Delhi.
  8. Member, Technical Committee for seminar on “Recent Trends in Highway Development” organized by Indian Roads Congress, 10-11, October, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
  9. Member, Performance Evaluation Committee, National Rural Road Development Agency, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India.
  10. Co-chairman, Technical Session on Transport Infrastructure System-1, National Seminar on Role of Infrastructure for Sustainable Development, IIT-Roorkee, 12-14, October, 2012.
  11. Executive Board Member, Transport Research Group of India, Banglore.
  12. Session Chair, Session:13F2S02: Analysis & Modeling of Traffic Streams-I, 2nd CTRG, Agra, 12-15, December, 2013.
  13. Expert Member, M Tech & PhD Evaluations, Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad.
  14. Domain expert, Urban Travel Demand Assessment, World Bank-GEF Supported Capacity Building programme for Sustainable Urban transport Project, Institute of Urban Transport India, Ministry of Urban Development, Govt. of India
  15. Member, Expert Advisory Group, CSIR-CRRI 12th Five Year Plan Project: Development and Applications of Technologies for Sustainable Transportation (SUSTRANS)(ESC-0106)
  16. Chairman, IUTI-SVNIT Regional Chapter, SVNIT, Surat (Since October, 2014)
  17. Member, General Body, National Rural Road Development Agency, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India.
  18. Session Chair: 11th International Conference of Eastern Asia Society for Transport Studies, 11-14, September, 2015, Cebu, Philippines.
  19. Session Chair, 3rd Conference of Transportation Research Group of India, 17-20,December,2015, Kolkata.
  20. Session Chair: 8th Urban Mobility India, Research Symposium, 24-27, November,2015, Institute of Urban Transport (India), New Delhi.
  21. Session Chair: 9th Urban Mobility India, Research Symposium,8-12, November,2016, Institute of Urban Transport (India), Gandhinagar.
  22. Session Chair, QIP Sponsored & ISTE Approved International Conference on “Research and Innovations in Science, Engineering & Technology” ICRISET 17 -19 February, 2017
  23. Chair, 4th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India, 17-20, December,2017, IITB-Mumbai.
  24. Member, Technical Committee H-8 (Urban roads, streets and transport), Indian roads Congress, New Delhi.
  25. Member, Technical Committee H-5 (Rural roads), Indian roads Congress, New Delhi.
  26. Member, Technical Committee H-7 (Road safety and design), Indian roads Congress, New Delhi.
  27. Expert member , M.E. (Civil- Transportation Engg) Curriculum Workshop, Ganapat University, Ahmedabad. (19-6-2018)
  28. Invitee, Round Table on Regulating Innovation in Urban Mobility- Taxi operations Rules of Maharashtra, CUTS International, Mumbai (22-6-2018).
  29. Expert Invitee, Review of ABD Proposals for Mangluru under Smart City Mission, MSCL (5-12-2018).
  30. Session Chair (F4-OS2: Public Transportation Integration with Active Travel), 15th World Conference of Transportation Research (WCTR2019), 26-30, May, 2019, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai.
  31. Visiting Expert, Road Network Development, Indian Institute of Technology Jammu (March, 2019 onwards)
  32. Independent Director, Urban Ring Development Company (Joint Venture of Surat Municipal Corporation and Surat Urban Development Authority), Surat (2018 onwards)
  33. Invited Expert, Symposium on Infrastructure Design and Management for Future Cities, RCG School of Infrastructure Design and Management, IIT Kharagpur, The Park, Kolkata (17-18, April, 2019)
  34. Invited Expert, Workshop on Centre of Excellence on Road Safety, Asian Institute of Transport Development (AITD), New Delhi (23-04-2019).