Dr. Deepak Jhajharia (B. Tech. , M. Tech. and Ph. D.) is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Soil & Water Conservation Engineering, College of Agricultural Engineering & Post Harvest Technology, Ranipool, Gangtok, Sikkim, India.
He is also acting as Principal Investigator of the All India Coordinated Research Project on Plasticulture Engineering Technology CAEPHT (Gangtok) center, which is funded entirely by ICAR Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology, Ludhiana, India, since 2016. He graduated from the College of Technology and Engineering (MPUAT), Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, in Agricultural Engineering in 1998, and did post-graduation from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, in Water Resources Engineering, the Department of Civil Engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Hydrology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India.
He was awarded Young Talent Attraction – BJT of Science without Borders Program for International Scientists, National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brazil, as Research Collaborator at Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE), Recife, PE, Brazil, in 2013.
He has published over 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals, three extension bulletins, and seven chapters in books. He has guided eight M. Tech. theses in the field of Soil and Water Conservation Engineering along with many undergraduate theses in the field of Agricultural Engineering. He has handled nine research projects sponsored by governmental agencies as principal or co-principal investigator. He also conducted one 21-day summer school for scientists from ICAR and faculty members from different universities and one 90-day skill development training program on greenhouse technology for school drop-outs and unemployed rural youth from six states of northeast India. He was awarded the CSIRO Land and Water Publication Award 2013, CSIRO Australia for a global review paper published in the Journal of Hydrology.
He is a Fellow of the Indian Association of Hydrologists, Roorkee (in 2015) and Society of Extension Education, Agra (in 2018). He is a recipient of Editors xiii the Distinguished Alumni Award (in 2016) from the College of Technology and Engineering Alumni Society, CTAE (MPUAT), Udaipur. He has also adjudged the Best Extension Scientist (2017–18) of the AICRP on PET in recognition of outstanding contribution to the extension and popularization of Plasticulture Technologies in Sikkim. He is also a life member of 14 different professional societies from India and abroad.
