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Sh Harshal Gawali
Designation: Assistant Chief Technical Officer (Photography) | At IIMR Since: 1990
Email: gawali@millets.res.in, h.gawali@icar.gov.in | Mobile:9848562580
Phone(O): +91-40-24599342 | Fax :- +91-40-24599304
Academic Qualifications
B. Sc (BZC), BFA(Photography & Visual Communication)
Work Experience:
- Expertise in exposing & cataloguing photos of scientific research on millets
- Coverage of all Institutional activities like seminars, trainings, field days and visitors
- Contribution of photos for publications
- Designing of Cover designs, pamphlets, posters & banners
- Oversee Updating of Website and intranet
- Liaison with publishers and printers for printing publication such as Institution Awards, Annual Report, Jowar Samachar, Proceedings of various seminars and meetings, IIMR Happenings etc.
- Perform duties as “In charge Administrative Officer” whenever regular Administrative Officer is on leave
- Member of various institutional committees
Conference / Seminar / training Attended:
- Competitive Enhancement for Technical Officers of ICAR, 14-23 Dec, 2015 at NAARM
- Training Programme on Hindi course “Parangat” organized by Central Hindi training Institute, Official language division, Min. of Home Affairs, Govt of India, Hyderabad at Indian Institute of Millets Research, Hyderabad during 1 – 29 Nov., 2016
Publications / Books
- A book on “DUS Characteristics of Indian Sorghum Parental Lines, Hybrids and Varieties”
- A book on “Legislations protecting IPR’s in India”
As Co-author:
One of the authors for a poster on
- Importance of starch quality in industry and identification of genetic stocks for specific starch quality
- Effect of season on productivity traits in sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench)
- Publications and Training Programmes on Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights”
- Guidelines for the conduct of Tests for Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability on Sorghum”
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Harshal Gawali
Last Updated on 25th February 2017