Dr Niranjan Sahoo
Dr Niranjan Sahoo

Professor

Rural Management

Date of Joining: 03.01.2008

Background

Professor Niranjan Sahoo (MA/M.Phil. /Ph D) is academically specialized in Rural Management in general and Disaster Management in particular. In his 27-years of teaching & working experience, he initially worked with a Germany based funding agency (EZE, Bonn) located in Calcutta after passing out of his master’s from Visva-Bharati Central University, Santiniketan. On completion of his M. Phil from University of Indore, he joined Administrative Training Institute, Government of Tripura (SIPARD) where he was extensively involved in offering the trainings to the IAS, IFS, and the state level bureaucrats. After 8 years of his job with the Tripura Government, he joined Xavier Institute of Social Service (XISS), Ranchi.
He has travelled around 25 countries i.e. Australia, Laos, Dubai, Nepal, USA, Bangladesh, England, Singapore, South Korea, Indonesia, China, France, Switzerland, Thailand, Mongolia, Germany, Hongkong, Philippines, Russia and Mexico for academic causes. He has offered a few lectures on Disaster Management at some Korean Universities i.e. Vision University, Ansan University, University of Suwon, Han-Seo University, Sinhan University and Korea Fire Service Institute etc in 2016.
He has got a total of 30 National/International research publications, 5 book chapters and 5 books to his credit so far. One of his books has been annotated by an “Á” category journal i.e. Journal of Economic Literature of Economic Association of America and reviewed by the Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi.
He did a short-term course on “Human Resource Management Planning” from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India before completion of his Ph. D degree from Magadh University, India

Professional Experience

• From 2000 till 2007, Dr Sahoo served with Government of Tripura as an Assistant Professor (Rural Development & Economics) at Administrative Training Institute & Govt Degree College (a Group A, Gazetted officer selected by Tripura Public Service Commission and appointed by His Excellency Governor of Tripura)
where Dr Sahoo was offering the DoPT & MoRD sponsored training modules for State Civil Servants, IAS, IFS and line department Officials
• Since 2008, Dr Sahoo has been serving XISS, Ranchi as a Faculty (Now Professor) and having Professional Expertise (Teaching, Research & Consultancy) in various domains i.e Disaster Management, CSR, General Management, Human Resource Management, Project Management etc)

Achievements

• Sr Advisor at NPC, Ministry of Industry & Commerce, Govt of India (2020-21)
• Advisor to the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), New Delhi
• Executive Member to the Apex Committee at Uranium Corporation of India Ltd, Department of Atomic Energy, Govt of India
• Member, Global Network for Disaster Risk Reduction (GNDR), London
• Member, APO, Tokyo Alumna Association of India
• Received 2 International Trainings on Rural Development from Asian Productivity Organization, Tokyo, Japan
• Authored Five (5) Books and around 30 Research Articles
• He has taken up the following international consultancy projects
i) Rural Development Model Training Project of APO, Tokyo, Japan,
ii) GALVMed, Edinburgh offered him a project for conducting research in Nepal on Newcastle Disease among Poultry Birds
iii) ISS & Victorian State Government, Australia offered him a project on Alternate Carers identification for a destitute Child
iv) United Nations (UNDRR), Geneva invited him to the Global Platforms which were held in Mexico (2017), Mongolia (2018) and in Geneva (2019) along with Shri Kieren Rijiju, the then State Home Minister of India and Dr P K Mishra, IAS (Retd), the Principal Secretary to Prime Minister.
• He has a Patent (PN:2021102310) on “IoT Based Sustainable Incinerator for Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Waste” granted by Patent Commission, Government of Australia (June 2021).
• He was also felicitated with Visva-Bharati Snatakattor Award in 1997 at Santiniketan by the then Prime Minister of India, Shri I. K. Gujral.
• Prof. Sahoo has received International Intellectual Award 2010 in an International Conference on “Indo-Thai Friendship Summit and Economic Growth” held in Thailand on 30th December 2010 for outstanding rural development teachings.