Dr Rao's Profile

• Name of the Institution …NRIBAS, Kothrud, PUNE-38

• Name of the Technical Officer… GAJENDRA RAO

• Designation…Astt. Director (Botany)                                                                                                                                                            
  E-mail- gajendrarao111@rediffmail.com

• Qualification( Starting from Graduation):

  Sl No	Exams Passed	Name of the University / Board	Year of passing	Subjects	Division	Percentage of marks obtained
  1	B.Sc.	University of Pune	April  1990	Botany Zoology Chemistry	First with Distinction	72
  2	M. Sc.	University of Pune	May  1992	Botany	First class	64.50
  3	Ph.D.	University of Pune	16-05-2005	Botany	____	____

• Experience

  Sl No	Name of the Employer/ Organisation	Full address of Employer/ Organisation	Post held (with pay Scale)	Period From      --      To	Nature of duties & Experience
  1	Secretary, Ahmednagar Jillha Maratha Vidya Prasarak Mandal	Principal, New Arts Commerce & Science College, Ahmednagar (Maharashtra)	Lecturer in BOTANY   [Rs 8000-275-13500]	01-09-1992  to 20-04-1993	Teaching (Theory & Practicals) Botany subject to Undergraduate Students
  2	Secretary, Ahmednagar Jillha Maratha Vidya Prasarak Mandal	Principal, New Arts Commerce & Science College, Ahmednagar (Maharashtra)	Lecturer in BOTANY   [Rs 8000-275-13500]	04-08-1993  to 14-12-1994	Teaching (Theory & Practicals) Botany subject to Undergraduate Students
  3	Secretary, B. P. Hiwale Education Society’s Ahmednagar College, Ahmednagar	Principal, Ahmednagar College, Ahmednagar (Maharashtra)	Lecturer in BOTANY   [Rs 8000-275-13500]	01-08-1995  to 15-04-1996	Teaching (Theory & Practicals)Botany subject to Undergraduate Students
  4	Director, Central Council for Research in Ayurveda & Siddha, New Delhi-58	Asstt Director, Jawaharlal Nehru Ayurvedic Medicinal Plants Garden & Herbarium, Kothrud, Pune-38 (Maharashtra)	Senior Research Fellow (Plant Tissue Culture)   Rs. 6000/- Fixed	05-09-1996  to  12-05-2000	Tissue culture studies on rare / threatened Ayurvedic Medicinal Plants; Developing Protocols / methods for Conservation
  5	Director, Central Council for Research in Ayurveda & Siddha, New Delhi-58	Dy. Director (Tech), Central Council for Research in Ayurveda & Siddha, Head Quarter’s Office, Janakpuri, New Delhi-58	Research Assistant (Botany)   [Rs 5500 -9000]	15-05-2000  to  14-07-2002	Maintenance of Herbarium & Museum of Ayurvedic Drugs
  6	Director, Central Council for Research in Ayurveda & Siddha, New Delhi-58	Asstt. Director, Regional Research Institute (Ay.), G.C.P Annexe, Opp. Ashoka Pillar, Jayanagar Bangalore-560 011. Karnataka	Survey Officer (Botany)   [Rs 8000-275-13500]	15-07-2002 To 31-10-2007	Survey of Medicinal Plants in Karnataka; Crude Drug Market Survey in Karnataka; Maintenance of Herbarium & Museum of Ayurvedic Drugs; Conservation of Germplasm of Medicinal Plants
  7	Director, Central Council for Research in Ayurveda & Siddha, New Delhi-58	Ass. Director, C S M D RI A S, Arumbakkam Chennai	Research Officer (Botany)   [Rs 8000-275-13500]	01-11-2007 To 31-06-2009	Maintenance of Herbarium & Museum of Ayurvedic Drugs
  8	Director, Central Council for Research in Ayurveda & Siddha, New Delhi-58	Research Officer Incharge RRI9Ay) Kothrud Pune-38	Ass. Director(Botany) [Rs 10,000 to 13,500)	01-07-2009 Till date	Maintenance of Herbarium & Museum of Ayurvedic Drugs; Conservation of Germplasm of Medicinal Plants

  Specific Duties assigned in the CCRAS…
  
  # Conduction of Training programme:
  1) Prepared Syllabus, Study material, Time table & Work schedule for Training in Survey & Collection of Medicinal Plants.
  2) Conducted 5 days training in Survey and Collection of Medicinal plants / drug (A batch of three students).
  (Council’s rate list letter No.282/2002 /CCRAS/ Admn.dt. 17/08/2004)
  
  
  iii) Any significant achievement with supporting documents
  Discovery of a new Plant species & addition to the flora of BANGALORE Dist.
  A new plant belonging to family – Caesalpiniaceae “Senna uniflora (Mill.)
  Irwin & Barneby” (synonym Cassia uniflora) has been reported from Anjanapura
  (Bangalore south District) & its technical paper was presented in National
  Seminar at St Joseph’s College, Bangalore on 24 – 25 Feb., 2006
  (iv) Details of Research papers and publications.
  

  
  

  S. No.	Title of the Article	Journal	Date of Publication
  1	Availability of Medicinal Plants in Rehekuri Sanctuary (Karjat   Taluka), Ahmadnagar District,  Maharashtra	Bulletin of Medico Ethno Botanical   Research,  Vol. 22, No.(1-4), pp. 1-9	2003
  2	Occurrence of Keetmari (Aristolochia bracteolata Lam.) Ahmednagar locations (Maharashtra) and its ex  situ conservation	Journal of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Science, Vol. 26 (1), 28-30	2004
  3	Survey of Medicinal Plants from Parner (Ahmednagar District)	Advances in Plant Sciences, Vol. 17 , No.    (1), June, pp. 57-59	2004
  4	Some new hosts of Dendropthoe falcata (L.f.) Ettings. – An   Ayurvedic drug and its availability in Lalbagh, Bangalore	Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products,   Vol. 11 (1): 79-80	2004
  5	Survey of Medicinal Plants from Areas of Ahmednagar District  (Maharashtra State)	Asian Journal of Microbiology,   Biotechnology, Environmental Sciences, Vol. 6, No. (1), pp.,   83-86	2004
  6	Germination studies on  Gardenia turgida Roxb.- A  rare  Ayurvedic medicinal plant	In BMEBR, CCRAS, New Delhi	2004
  	Other
  7	Ph. D. Thesis Submitted :  With reference to Council’s Permission letter No. 4-55/CCRAS/  Est. dated 30-04-2003,   Ph. D. Thesis (in Botany) has been  submitted to University of Pune on 14-01-2004. The title of the  thesis is “STUDIES  ON  PROPAGATION  AND  CULTIVATION   OF  A  FEW  MEDICINAL  PLANTS USED  IN AYURVEDA”	University of Pune	14- 01-2004

 

• (v) Participation in training programmes/workshops/medical relief camps:

  S.No.	Training/workshops	Organizer	Period
  1	symposium “ AMRUTH-2004-RESEARCH UPDATE IN  DRAVYAGUNA	Govt. Ayurveda Medical College, Bangalore	7th , August , 2004
  2	Workshop entitled “Regional Co-operation on  Conservation of Biodiversity Hotspot of Indian  subcontinent & Taxonomic Database for  Conservation	University of Agriculture Sciences, Bangalore, ATREE, Bangalore and University of Massachusette, Boston, USA	30th August- 1st September, 2004
  3	Training in “Training Programme on I.P.R Policy of      Council”	WHO, & CCRAS	15-10-2004
  4	Workshop on e- Governance	National Productivity Council, Govt. of India, Bangalore	29th  March,2005
  5	Training in “Methodology for Researchers of           Ayurveda and Siddha”	WHO, & CCRAS	25-26th Feb.,2005,