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Prof. Tarun Kumar Thakur

Indira Gandhi National Tribal University

ORCID iD 0000-0001-9389-1292
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Post graduated and Doctorate in Forestry from IGKV, Raipur (CG). Recipient of Young Scientist Award by The World Academy of Science, Alexandria, Egypt during 2012 and CG Young Scientist Award by CGCOST (2006) and currently working as Professor & Head, Department of Environmental Science, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh. His areas of interests are forest structure, function, carbon sequestration, vegetation analysis and GIS & remote sensing. He has published Peer Reviewed Papers over 51, 04 Books, organized 16 training program, handled 11 externally funded projects, over worth 137 Lakhs, under review: 03 and visited 10 countries for scientific purposes.
I have joined as Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, IGNTU, Amarkantak (MP) on September 07, 2012 and then elevated as Associate Professor in February 22, 2016 and Professor in December 2019, as Head of the Department since November 03, 2017. Since then I have been teaching various courses to UG, PG and PhD students. Along with that, I have been discharging my duty in several departmental, faculty and University level committee and administrative work. I have completed 8 years at IGNTU, Amarkantak (MP) and altogether over 14 years of post-PhD experience. Hence, just curiosity I highlighted some of the work as follows: General articles: 25, Book Chapters 04, School/Course attended: 04, Research guidance: PhD-04, MSc Dissertation-16 awarded.
Awards (12): Member IUCN-Commission for Ecosystem Management (CEM); Recipient Best Paper Award in SAEAS 2019 (International Conference) Thailand (2019); Recipient Best Paper Award in National Conference by EPCO, GoMP, Bhopal (2018)’ Honour as Coordinator during ICER 2016, Lubeck University, Germany; DST-SERB International travel FELLOWSHIP for Japan (2014); BSR Fellowship UGC Start-Up Grant, India (2013); BioVision.NXT Fellowship by The World Academy of Science, Italy (2012); Received “Young Scientist Award” from CG Council of Science & Technology, India (2006); Best Paper Award, National Biodiversity Board (NBB), India (2005); Chairperson, Institutional Ethic & Research Review Committee, Government Medical College, Shahdol, MP; Member of Academic Council, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak, MP; Expert Member, District Environment Impact Assessment Authority (DEIAA), Anuppur, MP; Chairman, Board of studies (BoS), Department of Environmental Science, IGN Tribal University, Amarkantak, MP, India since 2017.
Administrative responsibility: Head, Department of Environmental Science, IGNTU from 3rd November 2017; Member Dean Student’s Welfare (DSW) from 2020; Chief Warden of IGNTU since 2018-2020; Nodal Officer, Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Anuppur, IGNTU since 2016; Chairperson, Students Grievances and Redressal Cell, IGNTU, Amarkantak, MP from 2014; Nodal Officer, Public Grievances for MHRD, GoI since 2014 – 2020; Deputy Proctor, IGNTU, Amarkantak, MP from 2013-2015; Member of Planning & Development Cell, IGNTU, Amarkantak, MP since 2014-2020; Member of Women Cell/SPARSH, IGNTU, Amarkantak, MP from 2014-2016.

Employment

  • Indira Gandhi National Tribal University Professor
    2012 - Present

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Publications (46)