P. R. Siyag

Office Address:

Forestry Training Institute

Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg

Jaipur 302 015 . INDIA

siyag@jp1.dot.net

 

 

Professional Interests : Community and rural forestry ; IT applications in forestry; forests and desertification control; forests and climate change.

Education:

Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy  Dehra Dun, INDIA

Postgraduate Diploma in Forestry. Courses include silviculture, soil and water conservation, forest survey and mensuration, forest botany, entomology, ecology and wildlife management, forest economics, and timber engineering. 1986-1988

Indian Institute of Technology                            Bombay, INDIA

Master of Technology degree in Computer Science. Thesis topic "A Parsing Algorithm for Natural Language Understanding". Courses include digital systems, programming languages, advanced computer architecture, compiler design, operating systems, software engineering, and artificial intelligence.

1984-1986

Jodhpur University                                                               Jodhpur, INDIA

Bachelor of Engineering degree in Civil Engineering. Courses include all the aspects of civil engineering including design of structures, survey and astronomy, roads and highways, public health engineering, engineering economics, and costing & estimating. 1979-1984

Government Higher Secondary School       Balotra, INDIA

High school certificate in science maths stream. Stood 3rd in the state of Rajasthan, among 150,000 students. Higher secondary school certificate in science maths stream. Topped the school. 1978-1979

ExPERIENCE:

Director, Forestry Training Institute                  Jaipur, INDIA

Director of the institute. Responsibilities include design, development and implementation of training programmes in rural forestry/community forestry and related fields. Curriculum design, delivery and administration of these programmes, and capacity development of the Institute are principal responsibilities. May 1999 - Present

Deputy Conservator of Forests           Bundi, Rajasthan, INDIA

Job responsibility consists of protection, conservation and management of forests with a focus on sustainable use of the resource by the local communities. About 1500 ha of forestry plantations were successfully established under a new scheme of executing works through the agency of community organisations. February 1996 - May 1999

Deputy Conservator of Forests       Jodhpur, Rajasthan, INDIA

Job responsibility includes design and implementation of forestry plantation works under the Desert Development Programme. Fuelwood and fodder plantations and sand dune stabilisation plantations are the principal components of forestry. Providing training, technical support and field guidance to the staff and employees was integral part of the job responsibility. April 1994 - February 1996

Deputy Conservator of Forests             Pali, Rajasthan, INDIA

Protection, conservation, and management of forests and rangelands, and establishment of plantations in degraded forest lands and other wastelands. Mobilising community participation in forestry works through village level forest protection and management committees. October 1990 - April 1994

Publications:

Book. The Afforestation Manual: Technology & Management.  ISBN 81-901032-0-2, pp.xlvi+586. TreeCraft Communications, Jaipur, INDIA, 1998.

Review Paper. Chaos, Complexity, Environment & Development. A study paper for the LEAD programme, New Delhi, Sep 1998.

Review Paper. Game Theory & Its Application in Management of the Commons.  Presented in national session of LEAD, New Delhi, Oct 1999.

Paper. Co-management approach in afforestation programmes: A case study. 

XXI IUFRO Congress, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Paper. Microplanning For Village Ecodevelopment: Experience In Joint Protected Area Management. International Workshop on Biodiversity Conservation, Feb 2001, Ranthambhor, Sawai Madhopur, India.

 

Skills:

Computer: Microsoft Office family, incl. MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, and FrontPage; Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus Freelance Graphics, Lotus Organiser; ArcInfo, AutoCAD; Internet Explorer /Netscape Navigator.

Languages: Fluent in Hindi (mother tongue) and  English. Fair knowledge of French.

Honours/ Awards

Recipient of merit scholarship under the National Science Talent Search Programme, Ministry of HRD, Government of India, 1979-1984.

Recipient of scholarship for master's degree in technology at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 1984-1986.

Received fellowship for work on "Mitigation Of Greenhouse Gases And Sustainable Forest Management" from  LEAD International Inc., New York, 2000-2001.

Range of Intellectual Interests:

Apart from the professional field of forestry and its role in environmental conservation and poverty alleviation, I am deeply interested in the basic sciences and their actual and potential role in human welfare; in scientific bases of ethics, morality, and organisation of human societies. I am particularly interested in exploring possibilities of promoting direct action by communities in governance in the field of economic development at local level.