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Dr. S. Srinivasa Raju is Head of the Department, Civil Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India. His area of specialization is Water Resources Engineering. He obtained his B.E. (Civil) from Nagarjuna University, Andhra Pradesh; M.Tech and Ph.D. in Water Resources Engineering from Indian Institute of technology, Madras and Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur respectively. He was Post Doctoral Research fellow with GRESE, ENGREF and LAMSADE, Paris, France during February-July 2000. His research interests include Water Resources Management, Multicriterion Decision Making, Artificial Neural Networks and Fuzzy logic. He published more than 60 papers in International, National Journals and Conferences. He was recipient of Anbar Citation of Excellence, UK; Sir Arthur Cotton Memorial medal from Institution of Engineers (India); Latest top rated article rating by International Society of Robust Engineering Professionals, USA in the category of Operations Research/Statistics.

Dr. Ashoke K. Sarkar is Professor of Civil Engineering and the Dean Instruction Division and Faculty Division and Faculty Division I at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. His area of specialization is Transportation Engineering. He did BE (Civil Engineering) from the Guwahati University, Assam; M.A. Sc in Transportation from the University of British Columbia, Canada and Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur. He worked in IIT Kharagpur as a faculty member for about 10 years and then joined the University of Durban-Westville, South Africa to occupy the Chair in Transportation created by the Government of South Africa. Dr. Sarkar also worked with Transportek, CSIR for two years in Pretoria, South Africa. He has been involved in a number of rural transportation related projects funded by agencies such as ILO and DFID. Prof. Sarkar is the co-ordinator of the Regional Forum Group (Rajasthan Region) of the International Forum for Rural Transport and Development (IFRTD).

Dr. Motilal Dash is Assistant Professor, Humanistic Studies Group, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India. He has obtained his Ph.D. in Sociology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1994 with the specialization ‘Rural Development’. Since 1995, he has been involved in teaching, research and extension activities at BITS Pilani. He has extensively worked with the rural population and involved with important rural development projects funded by DFID-UK and ILO. He works ar the grass root level and presently carrying out projects in collaboration with Asha-for-Education, Yale Chapter, USA, and Association for India’s Development (AID-India), Maryland, USA. He has participated in a number of seminars/conferences in India and abroad and has convened seminars/conferences mainly on social issues. He has written a number of articles in various journals and has published books on ‘Grassroots Entrepreneurship’ and ‘Conflict Management’.