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Dr. Rakesh Kumar

Dr. Rakesh Kumar

Professor & Head of the Department, Civil Engineering (CE)

rakesh.kumar@sharda.ac.in

About

Dr. Rakesh Kumar is working as a HoD and Professor at Sharda University. Earlier, he served as Scientist ‘G & Head at National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee. He obtained B.E. Civil Eng., M.E. Hydraulics & Irrigation Eng. and Ph.D. in Hydrology from IIT, Roorkee. Received trainings at UC, Davis, USA; DHI, Denmark; ICHARM, Japan and IHE, Netherlands. He has completed 54 consultancies of Rs. 16 crores; published more than 300 research papers and received 10 awards. He has made 20 foreign visits for trainings, conferences and meetings under UNDP, World Bank, UNESCO, European Union, AWCI, ADPHT projects.  

Experience
  • 37+ Years
Qualification
  • Ph.D. (Hydrology), IIT Roorkee (2009). 
  • M.E. Civil Eng. with specialization in Hydraulics & Irrigation Eng., IIT Roorkee (1987). 
  • B.E. Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee (1984).
     
Award & Recognition

Reward Received - 10

  • “The Union Ministry of Water Resources – Department of Irrigation Prize” of the Institution of Engineers (India) for research paper “Development of regional flood formulae using L-moments for gauged and ungauged catchments of North Brahmaputra river system”, Journal of Institution of Engineers(I), Civil Eng. Division, Vol. 84, 2003. 
  • “Hem Prabha – SN Gupta Medal” of the Institution of Engineers (India) for research paper “Sensitivity Analysis of the SHE model for Beti Sub-Basin of River Machhu”, Journal of the Institution of Engineers (I), Civil Eng. Division, Vol. 81, 2001. 
  • “Briz Mohan Lal Memorial Medal” of the Institution of Engineers (India) for research paper “Application of SHE Model to Ganjal Sub Basin of River Narmada", Journal of the Institution of Engineers (I), Civil Engineering Div., Vol. 76, 1995. 
  • “Certificate of Merit” of the Institution of Engineers (India) for the research paper “Estimation of Direct Surface Runoff Hydrograph for a Basin using HEC-1 Package and Nash Model”, Journal of the Institution of Engineers (India), Civil Eng. Division, 2002.
  • Best Paper Award of the Indian Water Resources Society for the paper “Development of Regional Food Frequency Relationships Using L-Moments and A Relook on Hydrologic Design Criteria Under Climatic Change”, Indian Water Resources Society Journal, Vol. 38/2, 2018.  
  • Best Paper Award for paper on "Estimation of Design Flood foe Bargi Dam of River Narmada" during the session of National Conference on "Emerging Trends in Water Quality Management", Poornima University, Jaipur, December 19-20, 2014.
  • Best Paper Award for paper on "Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modelling of a Bridge”, HYDRO 2018 INTERNATIONAL (Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering), National Institute of Technology Patna, Dec. 19 21, 2018. 
  • Best Paper Award for paper on "Flood Hazard Assessment for a Dam Failure", National Conference on ETWQQM, Poornima Univ., Jaipur, March, 2019. 
  • Best Paper Award for paper on “Dam-break flood inundation modelling using coupled 1-D and 2-D hydrodynamic model” Sixth National Conference on Water Resources and Environment, NIH, Roorkee, Dec. 2019. 
  • Fellowship of US$ 15,000 for Flood disaster resilient hydraulic design for bridges exposed to climate change.  Awarded by the Coalition for Disaster Risk Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI). 

Appreciation Letters Received - 8

  • Appreciation letter has been received from GOC, Western Command, Indian Army for carrying out “Profiling of Ravi and Satluj Rivers” in 2020.
  • Appreciation letter has been received from NPCIL, Mumbai for consultancy studies carried out for nuclear power plant to be set up in Haryana in 2012.  
  • Appreciation letter has been received from NPCIL, Mumbai for consultancy studies for nuclear power plant to be set up in Madhya Pradesh in 2013.  
  • Appreciation letter has been received from Headquarters, Western Command, Indian Army for carrying out “Hydrodynamic Modelling of Rivers” in 2015.
  • Appreciation letter has been received from Director, NIH for carrying out activities of the Institute during the year 2008.
  • Appreciation letter has been received from Director, NIH for carrying out activities of the Institute during the year 2009.
  • Appreciation letter has been received from Director, NIH for carrying out activities of the Institute during the year 2010.
  • Appreciation letter has been received from Director, NIH for carrying out activities of the Institute during the year 2018. 
     

Research

  • Published more than 300 papers including 36 in International Journals and 10 Book Chapters.
  • Completed 52 Consultancy Studies of more than 16 crore Rupees. 

Papers Published In International Journals: 36

  • Rakesh Kumar (2019). Development of regional flood frequency relationships using L-moments for gauged and ungauged catchments of India, Water Utility Journal, European Water Resources Association, Vol.23, pp. 37-47. 
  • Rakesh Kumar, R.D. Singh and S.M. Seth. “Regional flood formulas for seven Subzones of Zone 3 of India.” Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp 240-244, July, 1999.
  • Rakesh Kumar, C. Chatterjee, R.D. Singh, A.K. Lohani and S. Kumar. “GIUH based Clark and Nash models for runoff estimation for an ungauged basin and their uncertainty analysis”. International Journal of River Basin Management, Vol. 2, No.4, pp. 1-11., U.K., 2004. 
  • Rakesh Kumar, C. Chatterjee, A.K. Lohani, S. Kumar, R.D. Singh. "Sensitivity analysis of the GIUH based Clark model for a catchment". International Journal of Water Resources Management, Kluwer Academic Publishers, the Netherlands, Vol. 16, No. 4, Pp. 263-278, August, 2002. 
  • Rakesh Kumar, C. Chatterjee and S. Kumar. “Regional flood formulas using L-moments for small watersheds of Sone Subzone of India”. Journal of Applied Engineering in Agriculture, American Society of Agricultural Engineers. Vol. 19, No. 1, pp.47-53, 2003. 
  • Rakesh Kumar, C. Chatterjee, R. D. Singh, A. K. Lohani and R. K. Nema, “Flood estimation for ungauged catchments using GIS and GIUH based Nash model”. Asian-Pacific Remote Sensing and GIS Journal, Vol. 15, Dec., pp. 11-20, 2003. 
  • Chatterjee, C., Jha, R., Lohani, A.K., Rakesh Kumar and Singh, R. "Runoff curve number estimation for a basin using remote sensing and GIS". Asian-Pacific Remote Sensing and GIS Journal, Bangkok, Vol. 14, pp. 1-7, December, 2001.
  • Rakesh Kumar, C. Chatterjee, S. Kumar, A.K. Lohani and R.D. Singh, “Development of regional flood frequency relationships using L-moments for Middle Ganga Plains Subzone 1(f) of India”. International Journal of Water Resources Management, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands, Vol. 17, No. 4, Pp. 243-257, August, 2003.  
  • Rakesh Kumar and S.K. Pathak. "Optimal crop planning for a region in India”. International Journal of Water Resources Development, U.K., Vol. 5, No. 2, June, pp. 99-105, 1989.
  • Rakesh Kumar, C. Chatterjee, and R.D. Singh, A.K. Lohani and S. Kumar. Runoff estimation for an ungauged catchment using GIUH based Clark and Nash models”. Journal of Hydrologic Processes, U.K., Vol. 21, pp. 1829-1840, May, 2007.  
  • Rakesh Kumar and C. Chatterjee, “Regional flood frequency analysis using L-moments for North Brahmaputra Region of India”. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 1-7, 2005.  
  • S.K. Jain, A. Sharma and Rakesh Kumar. “Freshwater and its management in India”. International Journal of River Basin Management, U.K., Vol. 2, No.3, pp. 1-12., 2004. 
  • C. Chatterjee, Rakesh Kumar, B. Chakravorty, A.K. Lohani, and S. Kumar. “Integrating remote sensing and GIS techniques with groundwater flow modeling for assessment of waterlogged areas”. International Journal of Water Resources Management, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands, Vol. 19, pp. 539-554, 2005. 
  • B. Sahoo, C. Chatterjee, N.S. Raghuwanshi, R. Singh, and Rakesh Kumar. “Flood estimation by GIUH based Clark and Nash models”. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 11, No. 6, pp. 515-525, Nov./Dec., 2006.  
  • Closure to Rakesh Kumar and C. Chatterjee. “Regional flood frequency analysis using L-moments for North Brahmaputra Region of India”. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 1-7, 2005.  
  • A. Sarkar, Rakesh Kumar, S.K. Jain, and R.D. Singh. “Artificial neural network models for estimation of sediment load in an alluvial river of India”. Journal of Environmental Hydrology, the International Association for Environmental Hydrology, Vol. 16, Paper 30, September, 2008. 
  • A. Bhuyan, M. Borah and Rakesh Kumar. “Regional flood frequency analysis of North-Brahmputra using LH-moments”. International Journal of Water Resources Management, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands, 24(9), 1779-1790, 2008.
  • P.K. Bhunya, N. Panigrahy, Rakesh Kumar and Ronny Berndtsson. “Development of a Regional Non-Dimensional Return Period Flood Model”, J. of Water Res. Management, Springer, UK, 24(7), 1425- 1439, 2010.
  • M. Arora, D.S. Rathore, R.D. Singh, Rakesh Kumar and A. Kumar “Estimation of melt contribution in River Bhagirathi and River Dhauli Ganga at Loharinag Pala and Tapovan Vishnugad sites”, International Journal of Water Resources and Protection, 2(7), 636-643, 2010.
  • J.V. Tyagi, Kumar Rakesh, S.L. Srivastava and R.D. Singh “Effect of micro-environmental factors on natural regeneration of sal (shorea robusta)” J. of Forestry Research, Springer Publication, 2011 22(4): 543-550. 
  • Archana Sarkar and Rakesh Kumar, “Artificial Neural networks for Event-based Rainfall-runoff Modeling”, Intl. J. of Water Resources and Protection, Journal of Water Resource and Protection, 2012, 4, 891-897, USA.
  • A.K. Lohani, Rakesh Kumar, R.D. Singh (2012), “Hydrological Time Series Modeling: A Comparison between Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy, Neural Network and Auto Regressive Techniques”, Journal of Hydrology.
  • Manohar Arora, Rakesh Kumar, Naresh Kumar and Jatin Malhotra, (2014), Assessment of suspended sediment concentration and load from a large Himalayan glacier, International Journal of Hydrology Research, UK, Vol. 45.2, pp. pp. 292-306. 
  • Bhunya, P K, R. Berndtsson, S.K. Jain and Rakesh Kumar, Flood analysis using Negative Binomial and Generalized Pareto models in Partial Duration Series (PDS): at site analysis. Vol- 497, 121-132, Journal of hydrology, Elsevier. 2013. 
  • C. Chatterjee, R. Jha, A.K. Lohani, Rakesh Kumar and R. Singh, Runoff curve number estimation for a basin using remote sensing and GIS, Asia Pacific Remote Sensing GIS Journal, No.4, pp. 1-7. 
  • P. Mani, C. Chatterjee, Rakesh Kumar (2014); “Flood hazard assessment with multiparameter approach derived from coupled 1D and 2D hydrodynamic flow”, Natural Hazards, Springer Publishers, January, Volume 70, Issue 2, pp 1553-1574.
  • Bhunya, P K, R. Berndtsson, S.K. Jain and Rakesh Kumar (2013); “Flood analysis using Negative Binomial and Generalized Pareto models in Partial Duration Series (PDS): at site analysis”. Vol- 497, 121-132, Journal of hydrology, Elsevier.
  • Manohar Arora, Rakesh Kumar, Naresh Kumar and Jatin Malhotra, (2014), Assessment of suspended sediment concentration and load from a large Himalayan glacier, International Journal of Hydrology Research, UK, Vol. 45.2, pp. pp. 292-306.  
  • Development of Geomorphology Based Regional Nash Model for Data Scares Central India Region (2013) R.K. Jaiswal, T. Thomas, R.V. Galkate, N.C. Ghosh, A.K. Lohani, Rakesh Kumar, Water Resources Management, DOI 10.1007/s11269-013-0486-x.
  • Pandey, R. P., Ravi V Galkate, Rakesh Kumar (2014), Study of Drought Characteristics in Mid-Climatic Regions. International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Technology, Special Issue for Hydro-2014, ISSN: 2277-1581, pp. 68-75. 
  • Rakesh Kumar, Narendra K. Goel, Chandranath Chatterjee, Purna C. Nayak (2015), “Regional Flood Frequency Analysis using Soft Computing Techniques”. Water Resources Management, DOI 10.1007/s11269-015-0922-1.
  • 32.    Pandey, R. P., Ravi V Galkate, Rakesh Kumar (2014), Study of Drought      Characteristics in Mid-Climatic Regions. International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Technology, Special Issue for Hydro-2014, ISSN: 2277-1581, pp. 68-75.
  • Manohar Arora, Rakesh Kumar, Jatin Malhotra and Naresh Kumar, “Correlation of Streamflow and Climatic Variables for a large Glacierized basin, Journal of Water Resource and Protection, 2014, 6, pp. 1326-1334. 
  • Sanjay Kumar Sharma, Young-Joo Kwak, Rakesh Kumar and Bibhash Sarma(2018), Analysis of Hydrological Sensitivity for Flood Risk Assessment, International Journal of Geo-Information.2018, 7, 51; doi:10.3390/ijgi7020051.  
  • Manohar Arora, Rakesh Kumar, R D Singh, Jatin Malhotra and Naresh Kumar (2014) Analysis of unusual meteorological conditions that led to recent floods in Bhagirathi Basin (Uttarakhand Himalayas). Hydrological Sciences Journal, DOI 10.1080/02626667.2014.951362. Online: 08 August 2014.
  • Patra J. P., Rakesh Kumar, Mani P. (2019). Flood Hazard Assessment for a Dam Failure, Flood Hazard Assessment for a Dam Failure, International Journal of Advance and Innovative Research, International Journal of Advance and Innovative Research, Volume 6, Issue 2 (XXXI): April - June, 2019, pp 34-39, ISSN 2394 – 778.
     

Certifications

  • Completed 54 consultancy projects of more than Rs.16 crores, as the Principal Investigator/ Co-PI and 5 sponsored research projects. 

Consultancy Projects at Sharda University:   2

  • Design flood estimation for Kishau dam, sponsored by National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, funded by Kishau Dam Corporation Ltd., Dehradun, 7 July 2021, Rs.16.52 lakh. Study Group: Rakesh Kumar, PI, under progress. 
  • 2. Preparation of the District Ganga Plans for two Districts in the Ramganga River Basin, sponsored by CTRAN, Bhubaneshwar, funded by GIZ, Germany, 29 Nov. 2021, Rs. 4.2 lac. Study Group: Rakesh Kumar, PI, completed. 

Sponsored Research Project at Sharda University: 1

  • Flood disaster resilient hydraulic design of bridges exposed to climate change,   sponsored by the Coalition of Disaster Risk Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), New Delhi, 20 May 2022, US$ 15,000. Study Group: Rakesh Kumar, PI, completed.

External Funded Projects and Consultancy Services: 

  • Worked as Nodal Officer for NIH for the World Bank Funded Hydrology Project-II during 2006 to 2014; wherein DSS(P) was developed and implemented in six Central Agencies and nine States and an expenditure of Rs. 46.82 crore was incurred for the NIH component of the project. 
  • Worked as Member-Secretary of Indian National Committee for Intergovernmental Hydrological Program (INIHP) of UNESCO.
  • Consultancy services have been provided to Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd.; Indian Railway; Indian Army; NHPC; THDC; NEEPCO; NTPC; NLCIL; NTPC-SAIL; GMDA; VMC; EIL-HRRL; UJVNL; Adani Power; Ambuja Cement; J.P. Industries; Ambedkar University, Delhi; Water Resources Departments of U.P., Andhra Pradesh & Maharashtra etc. 
  • Also worked for World Bank Projects (Hydrology Project Phase-I, II and III); Member-Secretary UNESCO-INCIHP; Studies under UNDP; EU, AWCI (Japan), ADPHT (Malaysia) and Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI).  
     

Area of Interest

  • Design flood estimation, hydrological modelling and flood management, physically-based-distributed modelling, DSS for planning, development and management of integrated water resources systems.