Kamla Nath Sharma

Kamla Nath Sharma Profile

• Name:
• Kamla Nath Sharma

• Other Name:
• K.N. Sharma

• Born / Home Town:
• Jaipur

• Profession / Known For:
• Engineer

• Father:
• Bhatt Mathura Nath Shastri

• Education:

• He graduated in Civil Engineering from MBM Engineering College (Jai Narain Vyas University), Jodhpur (Rajasthan) and obtained Master of Engineering degree in Hydraulic Structures from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He travelled extensively throughout the world during his service tenure participating in international dialogues, initiatives and specialised programs and contributing to the knowhow in the fields of hydrology, irrigation and drainage, flood management, etc.

• Hobbies:

• He was a player of Badminton and won many championships. He was also Captain, Badminton of Jodhpur University and MBM Engineering College, Jodhpur wwhen he was a student.

  His hobbies include Indian classical music, literature and arts.

• Awards:

• Kamla Nath Sharma (K.N. Sharma) is recipient of many awards and fellowships. He was awarded Ford Foundation Fellowship in Water Management at the University of California, Davis (USA) in 1976–77. He also received British Council Fellowship for evaluating international networking in irrigation and drainage under the World Bank/FAO supported International Program for Technology and Research in Irrigation and Drainage (IPTRID) at Oxford/Wallingford (UK), Montpellier(France) and Wageningen (Netherlands), March–May, 1993. He was honoured with Citation Plaque for his exceptional contributions to ICID and Global Food Security at the World Congress on Irrigation held in Montreal (Canada) in 2002. He was also awarded Citation Plaques for "eminent leadership and enduring contributions to the worldwide advancement of the science of irrigation and drainage" at Sacramento, California (USA) in 2007 and at New Delhi (India) in 2009. 

• Achievements:

• Besides having contributed to global issues relating to water resources, food security, irrigation and drainage in various countries, Kamla Nath Sharma has published extensively on various scientific subjects of importance like environmental degradation, ecology, water pollution etc. based on references in the oldest Indian Vedic scriptures written in Sanskrit language.