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Inclusive energy solutions for India

(TA 7831 FINAL WORKSHOP)1

Program at a glance

The 'smartening' of grids is already happening and smart grid and its component2

technologies are an important focus of ADB and Government of India energysector programs in India. Innovative energy technologies and systems, coste� ectiveness and CO2 emission reduction are established pillars of the low-carbon energy transition. Social inclusion, including gender equality, however,while emerging as important considerations, are not consistently andsystematically addressed. This program will focus on identifying and framing thegender equality and social inclusion (GESI) challenges and approaches asrelevant and even necessary considerations in the energy transition, with the aimof establishing GESI as an important pillar in smarter and therefore moreinclusive energy solutions. The program will focus on speci�c smart gridtechnologies and systems, such as distributed generation (mini-grids and roof-top solar PVs), smart meters and electric vehicles, and their implications forinclusive development. The program will be in keeping with the ADB focus onmainstreaming high level technology in sector operations and help identifyopportunities to maximize the scope for mainstreaming GESI considerations.

1TA-7831-IND: Enhancing Energy-based Livelihoods for Women Micro-Entrepreneurs is associated with2Loan 2764-IND: Madhya Pradesh Energy E� ciency Improvement Investment Program (Tranche 1).The de�nition of smart grid provided by the International Energy Agency is a useful starting point: A smart gridis an electricity network system that uses digital technology to monitor and manage the transport of electricityfrom all generation sources to meet the varying electricity demands of end users. Such grids are able to co-ordinate the needs and capabilities of all generators, grid operators, end users and electricity marketstakeholders in such a way that they can optimize asset utilization and operation and, in the process, minimizeboth costs and environmental impacts while maintaining system reliability, resilience and stability. Source:adapted from IEA (2011), Technology Roadmap: Smart Grids, OECD/IEA, Paris.

Smart Grid Technologies and Implicationsfor Inclusive Development

Day 1, April 19

09:30-10:00 Opening Session

Chair: , Principal Social Development Specialist, Of�ce of theFrancesco TornieriDirector General, SouthAsia Department (SARD),ADB

Welcome remarksIqbal Singh Bains (IAS), Additional Chief Secretary (Energy and Happiness),Government of Madhya Pradesh

Opening remarksAnju Bhalla, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Power, Government of India

Additional remarksAshok Bhargava, Chair, Energy Sector Committee, ADB concurrently Director,Energy Division, EastAsia Department (EAEN-EARD),ADB

10:00-10:30 Key NoteAddressInclusive energy solutions: Framing the policy challenges for smart grid

Speaker: , Member (Planning), Central Electricity Authority,Pankaj BatraMinistry of Power, Government of India, introduced by ,Pradeep PereraPrincipal Energy Specialist, Energy Division, South Asia Department(SAEN-SARD), ADB

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-11:15 Setting the context: Reihana Mohideen, Senior Research Fellow,Director Future Energy and Inclusive Development lab, MelbourneEnergy Institute, The University of Melbourne

11:15-12:00 Session1:GESIimpactsofFeederSeparationprograms:CaseStudyoftheMadhyaPradesh Energy Ef�ciency ImprovementInvestment Program

Feeder Separation programs for rural electrification have been widelyimplemented in India. The program in Madhya Pradesh was innovativelydesigned to mainstream GESI consideration and an impact evaluation wasconducted. This session will discuss the unique features of the MP FeederSeparation program and its GESI impacts.

Session moderator - Prabhjot Khan, Social Development Specialist(GAD), INRM, ADB

Panel of speakers:Akash Tripathi (IAS), Managing Director, Madhya Pradesh Paschim KshetraVidyutVitaran CompanyLimited,GovernmentofMadhya Pradesh


Jyotirmoy Banerjee, Senior Project Of�cer (Energy), India Resident Mission(INRM),ADBSambit Rath, Manager – Advisory – Government Reforms andInfrastructure Development, Price Waterhouse Cooper, India

12:00-13:15 Session 2: How smart and equitable is 'smart grid'?Challenges in integrating social inclusion in technology, policy,regulationandeconomiccriteria

'Smart grid' requires several key elements: technology innovation –fromsmart metering to electric vehicles– cost effectiveness and planning within anenabling policy and regulatory environment. This innovative terrain of theenergy and power sector provides potentially important opportunities toassess and integrate GESI considerations and benefits. Session 2 will probethis additional key element of smart grid and social inclusion.

Session moderator – South AsiaJiwan Acharya, Energy Specialist,Department (SAEN-SARD),ADBInteractive lecture:Iven Mareels, Dean, Melbourne School of Engineering, The University ofMelbourne

With contributions from Pankaj Batra

13:15-14:15 LUNCH

14:15-15:30 Session 3: Energy Infrastructure for 'smart cities'

Urban areas account for the greatest share of global population and economicactivity, which are two key drivers of energy consumption. Much of thepopulation growth will occur in developing countries, such as India. Most ofthe urban growth will also take place in small cities. 'Smart cities' need 'smart'energy and integrated infrastructure and 'smart' communities that is,community-centered approaches. Session 3 will be a presentation of thesekey and interlinked elements.

Session moderator: Prabhjot Khan

Interactive lecture:Pierluigi Mancarella, Chair of Electrical Power Systems, Melbourne Schoolof Engineering, The University of Melbourne

15:30-16:00 BREAK


16:00-17:00 Session4: India'ssolarprogram:Entrypointsforsocial inclusion

The Government of India has undertaken an ambitious renewable energyprogram with a target of 100 GW of grid connected solar power by 2022. Thisincludes the setting up of solar parks with capacity of 500MW and more. TheADB has supported this program and has had some success inmainstreaming GESI in solar park projects. Session 4 will assess thisexperience and attempt to summarize the lessons.

Session moderator: H. D. Sudarshana A. Jayasundara, SocialDevelopment Specialist (GAD), Sri Lanka Resident Mission,ADB

Panel of speakers:Len George, Energy Specialist, South Asia Department (SAEN-SARD),ADBSunit Mathur, General Manager, Rajasthan Renewable EnergyCorporation, Government of RajasthanSatish Babu, Volunteer, Society on Social Implications of Technology,IEEERavikumar Kandasamy, Deputy Director (Rural Energy andInfrastructure), Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Rural Industrialization

17:00-17:10Summary of Day 1: Reihana Mohideen

19:00-21:30 WORKSHOP DINNER

Greetings from Iven Mareels, Dean, School of Engineering,The University of Melbourne


DAY2: April 20

9:30-10:30 Session 5: How much energy does a community need? GESI inenergy systems modelling study presentation

The Session will present the key findings of the study on gender implicationsof energy technology innovation in South Asia conducted by the University ofMelbourne for the ADB. The study includes a 'technology audit' to identifyemerging clean energy systems in South Asia and GESI integrated modellingto identify energy technology pathways for rural electrification.

Session moderator: Francesco TornieriInteractive lecture: Reihana Mohideen

10:30-11:00 BREAK

11:00-11:30 Closing session

Closing remarks: Pradeep Perera

12:00-13:00 LUNCH

13:00-19:00 FIELD TRIPMadhya Pradesh Feeder Separation Program site visit in Vidisha district


Speakers Pro� le

Ms. Anju Bhalla became Joint Secretary in the Ministry ofPower, Government of India in 2015 and participated in COP-21United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as amember of the Indian delegation and negotiator on�Technology Development and Transfer.�She has worked in theMinistry since 2013 as Director (Hydel-I), coordinating power sector issues for the NorthEastern region, and administrative issues related to THDC India and North EasternElectric Power Corporation Limited (NEEPCO). She also served as Director forTransmission and Policy and Planning. Earlier, she worked in the Ministries ofCommerce; Industry; Culture; Women and Child Development. She is recipient ofNational Talent Search Scholarship from National Council for Educational Research andTraining (NCERT). Ms. Bhalla holds a Post Graduate degree from St. Stephens College,Delhi University.

Anju BhallaJoint Secretary

Ministry of PowerGovernment of India

Mr. Akash Tripathi is the Managing Director of the WestDISCOM (MPPKVVCL), Indore, Madhya Pradesh. Prior to this,he has served in various departments in the state. He was thefounder Managing Director of Madhya Pradesh Jal Nigam. Healso worked as Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Indore.

He has also served in the rural sector as CEO of Zilla Panchayats of Dhar and Ujjain. Healso served as Additional Secretary in the Chief Minister Secretariat brie�y. He was theCollector and District Magistrate of Indore, Gwalior, Morena and Balaghat districts inMadhya Pradesh for about 10 years. Mr. Tripathi is recipient of many awards. He hasreceived the Times of India Social Impact Award; Chief Minister Excellence Award(2012); and Award for Best Electoral Practices for 'Innovations in Use of Technology'from the Election Commission of India in 2014. Mr. Tripathi also received the NationalAward as District Collector, Indore for providing rehabilitation services for disabledpersons on the occasion of International Day of persons with disabilities by UnionMinistry of Social Justice and Empowerment; Madhya Pradesh was awarded with BestState Award for year 2014 for empowerment of disabled. He completed BE in Electronicsand Telecommunication from Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology andScience (SGSITS) Indore, Madhya Pradesh.

Akash Tripathi (IAS)Managing DirectorMP DISCOM (West)Government of Madhya Pradesh

Mr. Ashok Bhargava is the Director of the Energy Division at theAsian Development Bank (ADB), East Asia Department. Heoversees energy sector operations in the People's Republic of

China (PRC) and Mongolia. Currently, he is also the Chair, Energy Sector Group thatprovides leadership and guidance to ADB's energy sector operations. He specializes inmany innovative low-carbon technologies such as energy e� ciency, distributedrenewable energy, run-o� -river hydropower plants, Integrated Gasi�cation CombinedCycle (IGCC), concentrated solar power (CSP), Carbon Capture, Utilization andStorage (CCUS), and shale gas. He is an Australian national. Prior to joining ADB, heworked with a large infrastructure consulting �rm, a multinational power company inAustralia, and a large public sector generation utility in India. He is an Electrical Engineerand has a Master Degree in Business Administration. Mr. Bhargava has more than 33years experience in the energy sector in Asia and the Paci�c region.

Ashok BhargavaDirectorEnergy DivisionEast Asia Department (EAEN-EARD)Chair, Energy Sector CommitteeAsian Development Bank

Francesco TornieriPrincipal Social Development Specialist

(Gender and Development)Portfolio, Results and Quality Control Unit

South Asia DepartmentAsian Development Bank

Mr. Francesco Tornieri is Principal Social DevelopmentSpecialist (GAD) at the Asian Development Bank, South AsiaRegion Department (SARD) and a member of the ADB GenderEquity Technical Group. Mr. Tornieri has been working for over20 years in the area of social development, with focus on gender equality, women'sempowerment, social justice, post-con�ict rehabilitation and reconstruction, gender-responsive policy/legal and governance reforms, and gender-related capacitydevelopment across Sub-Saharan Africa and the Asia-Paci�c. Mr. Tornieri joined ADBin 2004 working in the Regional and Sustainable Development Department (RSDD).Prior to ADB, Mr. Tornieri worked as Social Development Specialist (GAD) at the AfricaRegion of the World Bank (1996-2004), Washington DC, where he was involved in theimplementation of a broad range of gender-related initiatives and directly responsiblefor the Gender and Law Program in Sub-Saharan West, Central and East Africa.


Mr. Jayasundara is the Social Development and GenderSpecialist at ADB Sri Lanka Country O� ce. He carries over tenyears of development experience in the Social Development�eld at policy, project and program level. He started hisdevelopment career with World Vision Sri Lanka in di� erentcapacities related to Program Management and M&E. There, he

also pioneered the Male Engagement Project Model in partnership with World Visionand Promundo leading the Global Men Care Campaign in Sri Lanka, an initiative whichcontributed to promoting gender equality, women's empowerment, and eliminatinggender-based violence. He has also worked with the Australian Aid program as ProgramManager for Sri Lanka and the Maldives. He managed several multi-sector projects(including WASH, Maternal and Child Nutrition, Governance, Climate Change),facilitating gender mainstreaming and gender transformative initiatives. As a technical,M&E and training consultant he has served several development agencies and privatecompanies on short-term assignments. He provided program quality support toAustralia Awards in South Asia promoting women's equitable access to scholarship andfellowship opportunities. Mr. Sudarshana has a Master's degree in DevelopmentPractice, Postgraduate Diploma in International Relations, Bachelor's degree inPhilosophy and Humanities, and a Diploma in Project Management.


H. D. Sudarshana A. JayasundaraSocial Development and Gender Specialist (GAD)Sri Lanka Resident MissionAsian Development Bank

Iqbal Singh Bains (IAS)Additional Chief Secretary

Energy and Happiness DepartmentGovernment of Madhya Pradesh

Mr. Iqbal Singh Bains is the Additional Chief Secretary, EnergyDepartment in the Government of Madhya Pradesh. He alsoserves as the Additional Chief Secretary, HappinessDepartment. Earlier he has served as Joint Secretary, Ministry ofOverseas Indian A� airs, Government of India, New Delhi. Hehas held important portfolios in the Government of MadhyaPradesh such as Secretary and later Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister of MadhyaPradesh; Principal Secretary, Housing and Environment Department, and Public ServiceManagement Department; Secretary to Hon'ble Governor of Madhya Pradesh;Secretary, Panchayat and Rural Development Department. He has also served asEnvironment Commissioner and Director General, Environmental Planning andCoordination Organization; Excise Commissioner, Gwalior; Managing Director, Seedand Farms Development Corporation; and Managing Director, State Agro Industries. Hewas also the District Collector of Sehore, Khandwa, Guna and Bhopal districts in MadhyaPradesh. He graduated with a degree in Electronics Engineering from Punjab EngineeringCollege, Chandigarh, India.

Iven MareelsDeanMelbourne School of EngineeringThe University of Melbourne

Dr. Iven Mareels is a Redmond Berry Distinguished Professorand Dean of Engineering at The University of Melbourne,Australia. His research focuses on the modelling, control, andorganization of large scale systems, both engineered as well asnatural systems. He is a Fellow of The Academy ofTechnological Sciences and Engineering, Australia; The

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA; and the International Federationof Automatic Control and Engineers Australia. He is a Foreign Member of the RoyalFlemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. He is registered as a CorporateProfessional Engineer with Engineers Australia. He is the co-inventor of 31 internationalpatents and publishes extensively. His publications include 5 books, 17 book chapters,more than 150 journal publications and 250 conference publications. He is a co-inventoron a suite of 31 international patents. 42 PhD students completed their studies under hissupervision, and he is presently supervising 5 PhD students. Professor Mareels obtainedthe (ir) Masters of Electromechanical Engineering from Gent University in Belgium in1982andthe PhD in SystemsEngineering fromtheAustralianNationalUniversity in1987.

Mr. Jiwan Acharya is working in Energy Division of South AsiaDepartment of ADB as Senior Energy Specialist since January2016. He is currently based in Asian Development Bank, IndiaResident Mission. Prior to that, he worked with Sector AdvisorySupport in the Regional and Sustainable Development and Climate Change Departmentof ADB since October 2006 as Senior Climate Change Specialist (Clean Energy). He is akey member of ADB's Climate Change and Clean Energy Team and was responsible foroverseeing ADB's several key initiatives including Energy for All, and Low CarbonTechnology Transfer, among others. The Energy for All program aims to increase ADB'sown investment on access to energy and assist the partners in promoting energy accessprojects in the region. He also spearheaded the Energy for All Partnership whichsuccessfully met the ambitious target of providing energy access to 100 million people by2015. Mr. Acharya served as ADB's focal point for Clean Technical Fund (CTF) andScaling up Renewable Energy for Low Income Countries (SREP) under the ClimateInvestment Funds (CIF) as well as Sustainable Energy for All Initiative (SE4All). Prior toADB, Mr. Acharya worked as Senior Research O� cer in Winrock International inKathmandu, Nepal covering climate change, CDM, energy access and broader cleanenergy areas. Mr. Acharya has a BSc in Electrical Engineering, MSc in Energy Systems andManagement; and a Masters in Economics.

Jiwan AcharyaSenior Energy Specialist

Energy DivisionSouth Asia Department

Asian Development Bank


Jyotirmoy BanerjeeSenior Project O� cer (Energy)India Resident MissionAsian Development Bank

Mr. Jyotirmoy Banerjee works as Senior Project O� cer (Energy)

at Asian Development Bank, India Resident Mission. He leads

development projects in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Assam.

He manages contracts and portfolio of both international and

national projects close to $1.5 billion. Risk management and

resolution of complex issues are part and parcel of his portfolio. Mr. Banerjee has

facilitated the establishment of the �rst Joint Venture Project under PPP route. With a

strong client orientation, Mr. Banerjee has also managed a Women's Micro

Entrepreneurship Project in Madhya Pradesh. Mr. Banerjee holds a Bachelor's degree in

Electrical Engineering and a Post Graduate Diploma in Finance from the Indian Institute

of Management, Kolkata. He is accredited by the Asian Development Bank and the

World Bank for Procurement Skills.


Mr. Len George is Energy Specialist at the Asian Development

Bank, South Asia Department. He is currently based in Asian

Development Bank, India Resident Mission and works on

energy projects in the region including India, Bangladesh and

the Maldives. He has been involved in processing the �rst ADB

administered Clean Technology Fund (CTF) project in India in the state of Rajasthan

and the �rst ADB administered Scaling Up Renewable Energy Project (SREP) in the

Maldives. Prior to ADB, he worked with an energy sector consulting �rm. Mr. Len holds a

degree in Electrical Engineering from Delhi University and a Post Graduate Diploma in

Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Len GeorgeEnergy Specialist

South Asia DepartmentAsian Development Bank


Mr. Pankaj Batra joined the Central Electricity Authority (CEA)in 1983. He is the Chairperson of Working Group VI on �Policyand Regulation�in the India Smart Grid Forum and Chairpersonof the BIS Committee of LITD 10 � �Power System Control andAssociated Communication�. He is Member (Planning),Central Electricity Authority, ex-o� cio Additional Secretary to

the Government of India. Earlier he was Member Secretary of the National ReliabilityCouncil for Electricity and was also Member Secretary of the 'Task Force on 'PeakingPower Plants and Creation of Adequate System Reserves' and on 'Integration ofelectricity from Renewable Energy sources in the Grid'. He was also in the Committee ofMinistry of Power for formulation of Model Smart Grid Regulations. He has worked in theGrid Management in the CEA Headquarters and as Chief (Engineering) in CentralElectricity Regulatory Commission (CERC). He also worked as Chief Engineer in theCEA. He has been involved in formulating various regulations. He introduced variousprovisions of integration of renewables to the grid and smart grid in the Indian ElectricityGrid Code. He also started the Division on Regulatory A� airs in CEA and wasresponsible for regulatory issues of CEA, CERC and SERC Regulations. He completedBTech in Electrical Engineering from Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University.

Pankaj BatraMember (Planning)Central Electricity Authority (CEA)Ministry of PowerGovernment of India

Dr. Pierluigi Mancarella is Chair Professor of Electrical PowerSystems at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and part-time Professor of Smart Energy Systems at the University ofManchester, UK. Dr. Pierluigi's areas of expertise and interestsinclude techno-economics of multi-energy systems, planningof integrated energy infrastructure under uncertainty, businessmodels for smart technologies, and risk and resilience assessment of future networks, onwhich he has led many projects sponsored by the UK Research Councils, the EuropeanCommission, and various industrial companies. He joined the University of Manchesterin 2011 as a Lecturer and then Reader, while he also held visiting professorships at EcoleCentrale de Lille, France and at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago, and a VisitingResearch position at NREL, Colorado, USA. He is with the University of Melbournesince September 2016. Dr. Pierluigi is author of 4 books, 5 book chapters, and more than200 research papers. He is an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, anAssociate Editor of the International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems andof the IEEE Systems Journal, and the past Chair of the Working Group on Energy of theIEEE European Public Policy Initiative. He completed MSc and PhD from the Politecnicodi Torino, Italy, and was a researcher at the Politecnico di Torino, NTNU Trondheim,Norway and Imperial College, UK.

Pierluigi MancarellaChair of Electrical Power SystemsMelbourne School of Engineering

The University of Melbourne


Ms. Prabhjot Khan is Social Development O� cer (Gender) at

the Asian Development Bank, India Resident Mission. She has

more than 15 years of experience in social development, gender

equality and women's empowerment in India. She joined ADB in

2012 and is the Gender and Social Inclusion focal point at the

India Resident Mission. She is responsible for overall coordination, management and

operational support for e� ective implementation of gender mainstreaming strategies in

ADB operations in India to promote gender equality as driver of change. She has

completed Ph.D. in Social Science from Nagpur University in 2003. Her work with ADB

has led her to embrace the energy sector and explore its untapped potential to advance

gender equality and women's empowerment. Ms. Khan feels her engagement to address

gender and social inclusion issues in a range of ADB transmission, distribution and

renewable energy projects has been rewarding.

Prabhjot KhanSocial Development O� cer (Gender)India Resident MissionAsian Development Bank

Dr. Pradeep Perera has been with Asian Development Bank for

the past 14 years and is currently attached to South Asia

Department. Dr. Perera has been involved in structuring

innovative �nancing programs for energy e� ciency and

renewable energy. His prior responsibilities at ADB includes

Principal Energy Specialist in East Asia Department with focus on China; evaluating

e� ectiveness of ADB's energy sector lending program and developing energy sector

lending projects in South East Asia. Prior to joining ADB, he was attached to the South

Asia Department of the World Bank Group. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical

Engineering and PhD in Power System Economics from Imperial College, University of

London, UK.

Pradeep PereraPrincipal Energy Specialist

Energy DivisionSouth Asia Department

Asian Development Bank


Mr. Ravikumar Kandasam is Deputy Director, Rural Energy andInfrastructure Division at Mahatma Gandhi Institute for RuralIndustrialization (MGIRI) since 2009. The division deals withdevelopment of Renewable Energy based decentralized EnergyE� cient systems for MSME sector, Technology Transfer and

Creation of Entrepreneurs. Prior to MGIRI, He was a faculty in Department of Physics atGandhigram Rural University, Tamil Nadu. He also served as Head of the PhysicsDepartment and member of Executive and Academic Councils of Kigali Institute ofScience and Technology (KIST), Rwanda. He has 29 years of experience in Teaching,Research, Outreach programs, Project management, Technology Transfer, RuralIndustrialization in India and Rwanda. He completed his Bachelor from GandhigramRural University in Physics; and Master and M Phil degree from Bharatiar University,Tamil Nadu in Physics with specialization in Solar Energy. Mr. Kandasam also receivedDAAD fellowship and completed an additional Master degree in Appropriate RuralTechnology and Extension Skills from the University of Flensburg, Germany.

Ravikumar KandasamyDeputy DirectorRural Energy and InfrastructureMahatma Gandhi Institute for Rural Industrialization (MGIRI)Maganwadi, Wardha, Maharashtra

Dr. Reihana Mohideen is an international developmentspecialist working on energy and power systems. Since 2010 shehas supported the Asian Development Bank, South AsiaDepartment to mainstream gender equity and social inclusionapproaches in its energy portfolio, including in the feederseparation program in Madhya Pradesh under the energy e� ciency improvementinvestment program. She joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineeringat the University of Melbourne as a Senior Research Fellow in 2015, undertaking researchon energy technology innovation and its social and gender and developmentimplications. She is the Director of the Future Energy and Inclusive Development(FENID) - Melbourne Energy Institute lab, which is being established as a centre ofexcellence in this space. She completed BE in Electrical Engineering at the University ofMelbourne (1981), and her postdoctoral studies also at the University of Melbourne(2015) in renewable energy systems in Asia, researching the societal and genderimplications for newly electri�ed rural communities.

Reihana MohideenDirector Future Energy and Inclusive Development

Melbourne Energy Institute (FENID-MEI) laboratoryThe University of Melbourne


Mr. Sambit Rath is a Manager with the Public Sector andGovernance Team of the Government Reforms andInfrastructure Development, a sub business unit of PwC India.He has extensive experience in providing advisory services inapplied statistical modelling, designing and conductingexperimental and non-experimental evaluation studies, setting up monitoring andevaluation systems and studies requiring applied micro econometric and appliedstatistical modelling. He has also worked with international development agencies likeDfID, UNICEF, UNDP, NWO-WOTRO (Netherlands) etc. and other multi-lateraldonors like Micro Credit Summit (MCS) Foundation, and IKEA Foundation. At PwC he isinvolved in several policy, program and process evaluation studies and is leading multipleassignments. His research has been published in peer reviewed journals and presented innational and international conferences. He is a statistician by training and holds an MPhildegree in policy studies.

Sambit RathManager

Advisory/Public Sector and GovernanceGovernment Reforms and Infrastructure Development (GRID)

Price Waterhouse Cooper (PwC), India

Mr. Satish Babu is a volunteer-leader with IEEE's Society forSocial Implications of Technology (IEEE SSIT) and a member ofIEEE's Humanitarian Activities Committee (HAC). Mr. Satish isa Fellow and past President of the Computer Society of India,and currently Chairs the Asia-Paci�c Regional At-Large

Organization (APRALO) of ICANN. He is also the President and Co-founder of InAppInformation Technologies Ltd, an IT company with o� ces in India, Japan and the USA.His career spans Development, ICTs and the Software Industry in addition toprofessional fraternities such as IEEE, CSI, ICANN and Internet Society (ISOC). Hedevoted the initial part of his career working for grassroots communities, working in areassuch as livelihoods development, technology, and micro�nance. He was recognized withthe IEEE MGA Achievement Award in November 2013 for continuous e� orts in memberengagement and development by promoting humanitarian technologies and fosteringcollaboration between the IEEE Computer Society and the Computer Society of India.As the Chair of the �rst Chapter of IEEE SSIT in the country, he was instrumental inbringing the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) to India. Mr.Satish graduated in the 4-year Dairy Technology Programme of NDRI, Karnal,Kurukshetra University, and completed his post-graduation from the Institute of RuralManagement, Anand (IRMA).

Satish BabuVolunteer, Society for Social Implications of Technology (SSIT)Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)


Mr. Sunit Mathur is the General Manager at Rajasthan

Renewable Energy Corporation Limited, the State Nodal

Agency (Rajasthan) of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy

(MNRE) for the development and promotion of Renewable

Energy Sources. Mr. Mathur has more than 25 years in Solar, Wind and Energy E� ciency

Sectors. He is overseeing the Energy E� ciency program in Rajasthan State since 2008

and has been involved in constitution of Rajasthan State Energy Conservation Fund

(RSECF); issuance of Noti�cations for Energy Conservation and its e� cient use; Public

Street Lighting System; Rules for operation of RSECF and Energy Conservation Building

Code (ECBC);and execution of various demonstration projects under RSECF. Mr.

Mathur has also been associated with Wind Power generation program and has executed

three Wind demonstration projects of Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources

(MNES). He has completed BE and an MBA (Finance). Mr. Mathur is a certi�ed Energy

AuditorbyBureauof Energy E� ciency,MinistryofPower.

Sunit MathurGeneral ManagerRajasthan Renewable Energy Corporation Limited (RRECL)Government of Rajasthan

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