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Ashok Kumar is an active personality in the field of Forestry for last 8 years as he has lot of knowledge in the forest and forestry aspects. Ashok Kumar is presently pursing Ph.D. from Systematic Botany Discipline, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun after his M.Sc. (Forestry) from Punjab Agricultural Univesity, Punjab and B.Sc. (Forestry) from Navsari Agricultural Univesity, Gujarat. He has published Eight International and Six National Publications. He had attended couples of confernces, seminars also. He has also worked in Invasive species project as a Junior Research Fellow for one and half years.

Dr. T.N. Lakhanpal, Professor, Department of Biosciences, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, is a Gold Medallist from Punjab University, Chandigarh and received Ph.D. from the University of Delhi. He has published more than 150 research papers. During the last two decades he has extensively surveyed the N.W. Himalayas for mushrooms and has worked the biodiversity of microbes and other plants in the Himalayas. He has co-authored Taxonomy of Indian Myxomycetes (J. Cramer, Germany), Rural Eneregy Alternatives in the Hilly Areas (TODAy and Tomorrow Publ. New Delhi) and The Amanitaceae of India (Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehradun). He is a member of many scientific societies and associations. So far around 23 students have received Ph.D. degree under his supervision. He has been associated with many committees in Botany and Biology. Dr. Lakhanpal is very well known for his research contributions in India as well as abroad.