He worked at IISS, IIPR, ICRISAT, and CRI-DA. His expertise is in soil carbon sequestration, climatic change, contingency planning, and agriculture research management. He is a national coordinator of ICAR-flagship program on climatic change (NICRA). He was a technical chairman of the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture and a climate change negotiator in the Indian delegation represented at UNFCCC, SBSTA, and COP meetings. He is an executive board member of IDDC, Cairo, and a member of Asian Carbon Network, Japan. He has published 250 research papers and 25 books and is a reviewer of 15 international journals. He is a research fellow of NAAS, ISSS, and ISPRD. He received prestigious awards from Hon'ble President of