| Address: |
C 95 Jagan Path, Sardar Patel Marg |
| Short Statement: |
hmmathur@datainfosys.net
hmmsm2000@yahoo.com
|
| Displacement Experience: |
Wide experience in resettlement (research, social impact assessment, policies, planning, monitoring, evaluation, training and capacity building) having worked during last 10 years with the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and other development agencies. The experience covers a variety of projects, including dams for hydropower and irrigation, thermal power, coal mining, urban improvement, canals, and highways. Worked as consultant to the World Bank on projects in India involving supervision, evaluation, training and capacity building for staff in government agencies, private sector and NGO personnel (1995-1999). As staff consultant to the Asian Development Bank, prepared a Resettlement Plan for the Calcutta Environmental Improvement Project (2000). Working recently on other ADB projects helped establish a Social Development & Resettlement Unit within the National Highways Authority of India (2001), and carried out a review of the NHAI resettlement experience (2003).
|
| Publications: |
Authored and edited numerous books on resettlement, anthropology and development and published widely in international journals. Publications on resettlement include: Development, Displacement and Resettlement: Focus on Asian Experiences, edited with Michael Cernea (Vikas, 1995), Managing Projects that Involve Resettlement: Case Studies from Rajasthan, India (World Bank/EDI 1997) and Development Projects and Impoverishment Risks: Resettling Project-Affected People in India, edited with David Marsden (Oxford, 1998). As editor of the Eastern Anthropologist, published a special issue on resettlement (2000).
|
| Accomplishments: |
As a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), served government in India and held highest posts in government including Chief Secretary, Government of Rajasthan (1994). Other important positions held include Secretary to the Governor of Rajasthan State, Joint Secretary to the Government of India and Head, Training Division, and Director of the HCM Institute of Public Administration. Also served as Vice Chancellor, the University of Rajasthan. Consulted with various UN organisations including UNESCO. FAO, UNESCAP (1977-1993), and was posted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as Development Administration Specialist at the UN Asia and Pacific Development Centre (1982-84), and in Kampala as UN Adviser to the Government of Uganda (1984-86) on development management. Life Member, Society for International Development (Headquarters in Rome). Editor, Resettlement News, published twice a year in January and July. |
| Highest Degree: |
Ph.D. University of Rajasthan, 1986. |