Ashwini Kumar Lal

Background

Ashwini Kumar Lal was born on May 5, 1951 in Patna, Bihar, India. Son of Sachchida Nand and Mithilesh Nandini Lal.

Education

Bachelor of Technology, Ranchi University, 1972.

Career

Assistant Director/Deputy Director NBO, Ministry of Urban Development, New Delhi, 1975 -1995; Planning Engineer TCPO, Ministry of Urban Development, New Delhi 1995 -1999; Deputy Adviser, IPMD, Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, New Delhi 1999 - 2010.

Achievements

• Ashwini Kumar Lal has been listed as a noteworthy civil engineer under Government of India by Marquis Who's Who. He has been instrumental in large-scale promotion of affordable housing technologies for the masses across India. He has authored around 70 technical papers on diverse topics ranging from cost-effective construction technologies and housing in areas prone to natural disasters to concrete technology and environmental issues, that have been published in over dozen national and international journals of repute as well as several symposia proceedings. Besides, he has authored 'Handbook of Low Cost Housing' which has been immensely popular in many contries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Mr. Lal has contributed in drafting of the National Building Code and over dozen Codes of Practices and Standards pertaining to diverse civil engineering topics including those relating to construction of earthquake-resistant buildings. He represented his country at the UNIDO-sponsored Technical Consultation on ‘Natural Rubber for Seismic Protection of Buildings’ organized in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in February 1982 in joint collaboration of the Malaysian Rubber Research Development Board and the International Society for Seismic Isolation, California, USA.
  
  In 1997, he earned the Commonwealth Scholarship to attend a short course on ‘Sustainable Urban Development’ at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia which was sponsored by the AusAID (Australian Assistance for the International Development). The deliberations of the said course had strong message for the emerging economies like India, Brazil and Indonesia with their cities plagued by the common problems of overcrowding, traffic congestion, and overstressed infrastructure, calling upon them to address the issues relating to three ‘Ps’ - population, poverty and pollution in right earnest for ensuring sustainable development of their urban centers.
  
  He was associated with the monitoring progress of the prestigious National Highway Development Project (NHDP), the largest ever highway project to have been undertaken in the world. He highlighted the impediments in timely execution of the government-funded large-scale projects in different sectors of economy through publication of technical papers relating to such issues in reputed technical journals and symposia proceedings.
  
  In addition to his professional field of civil engineering, Mr. Lal made foray into cosmology through auto-education over the past three decades. He has made significant contribution in the field of cosmology through publication of research papers on topics relevant to the field in peer-reviewed international journals. His published research titled 'Origin of Life' is a hotly debated topic globally. It has since been cited over 50 times, and is archived at the coveted website of 'arXiv' which is repository of scholarly scientific research from the world over, operated by Cornell University, USA. In yet another published research, he has provided prospects of finding life on different planets and moons in the Solar system and beyond. He has challenged validity of the largely accepted Big Bang Model for the origin of the universe. Mr. Lal has also hinted at the planetary gravity and electromagnetism as being two sides of the same coin. All the published research papers authored by him have been abstracted in NASA's Astrophysics Data System (ADS) operated by Harvard's Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory.

Connections

Married Ruby Lal, March 10, 1977. Children: Anshu Sinha, Shubha Lal

Father:

Sachchida Nand Lal

Mother:

Mithilesh Nandini Lal

Spouse:

Ruby Lal

child:

Shubha Lal

child:

Anshu Sinha