15-10-2014, 03:16 PM
The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee has been nominated as the State Technical Agency (STA) for whole Uttarakhand and a part of Uttar Pradesh. Similarly the Institute has been nominated as the Principal Technical Agency for Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and J &K. Dr Praveen Kumar is Member of High Level Executive Committee of National Rural Roads Development Agency looking after this Mega Yojna. In 2006-07, the IIT Roorkee has scrutinised the road proposals of more than Rs 450 Crores involving 1500 km length of rural roads in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. The Institute expertise is available to the field engineers all the time on phone without any fee. The institute has been organising a number of training courses for the benefit of Field Engineers. Till now Sixteen Training Courses regarding PMGSY have been organised at IIT Roorkee for about 600 participants. Further, Dr Praveen Kumar of IIT Roorkee has been nominated for Monitoring Committee of National Quality Monitors. He has delivered lectures at various places in the country for the benefit of the concern persons of various states including Sikkim, Maharashtra, Gujrat, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal, Punjab, Jharkhand and North East States.