Vijay Shankar
Name Dr. VIJAY SHANKAR
2. Date of Birth : 17.06.1970
3. Permanent Address : VPO Pathiar, Teh & Distt. Kangra, HP- 176050
4. Contact Information : Telephone: (01972) - 254340 (O), 4341(R)
094184-64896 (Mobile)
E-Mail : vsdogra12@gmail.com
vsdogra@nith.ac.in
5. Present Designation : Associate Professer, Civil Engineering Département
6. Academic Qualification:
Sr. No. Degree Year Institute/ University
1 B. Tech. (Civil Engineering) 1993 REC Hamirpur (HP)
2 M.E. (Irrigation and Hydraulics) 1996 PEC Chandigarh
3 MBA (HRD) 2004 IGNOU Delhi
4 Ph.D. (Hydraulics) 2007 Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee-(UA)
7. Teaching Experience: 28 Years
8. Areas of Interest: Water Resources Engineering, Unsaturated Zone Modelling, River
Bank Filtration, Irrigation Scheduling, Watershed Modelling
9. Research Publications: 169
Journals = SCI/SCOPUS - 70 & NON-SCI/SCOPUS - 07
Conferences = International - 65 & National - 27
Book Chapters = 12
PROMINENT SCI/SCOPUS PUBLICATIONS
1. Kumar, R., Jat, M. K., & Shankar, V. (2013). Evaluation of modeling of water ecohydrologic dynamics in soil–root system. Ecological modelling, 269, 51-60.doi: 10.1016/j.ecomodel.2013.08.019.
2. Shankar, V., Prasad, K. H., Ojha, C. S. P., & Govindaraju, R. S. (2013). Optimizing Water Use in Irrigation-A Review. Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, 93(2), 209-226.
3. Poddar, A., Kumar, N., & Shankar, V. (2021). Evaluation of two irrigation scheduling methodologies for potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) in north-western mid-hills of India. ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 27(1), 90-99. doi.org/10.1080/09715010.2018.1518733
4. Poddar, A., Gupta, P., Kumar, N., Shankar, V., & Ojha, C.S. (2021). Evaluation of Reference Evapotranspiration Methods and Sensitivity Analysis of Climatic Parameters for Sub-Humid Sub-Tropical Locations in Western Himalayas (India). ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 27(3), 336-346. doi.org/10.1080/09715010.2018.155173
5. Kumar, N., Adeloye, A. J., Shankar, V., & Rustum, R. (2020). Neural computing modelling of the crop water stress index. Agricultural Water Management, 239, 106259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106259
6. Kumar, N., Shankar, V. and Poddar, A., 2020. Investigating the effect of limited climatic data on evapotranspiration-based numerical modeling of soil moisture dynamics in the unsaturated root zone: A case study for potato crop. Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, 6, pp.2433-2449.
7. Kumar, N., Shankar, V., Rustum, R., & Adeloye, A. J. (2021). Evaluating the Performance of Self-Organizing Maps to Estimate Well-Watered Canopy Temperature for Calculating Crop Water Stress Index in Indian Mustard (Brassica Juncea). ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 147(2), 04020040
8. Kumar, N., Rustum, R., Shankar, V., & Adeloye, A. J. (2021). Self-organizing map estimator for the crop water stress index. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 187, 106232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2021.106232
9. Kumari, S., Chauhan, A. & Shankar, V., (2021). Assessment of climate change implications on landslides in mid and high hills of Himachal Pradesh, India. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 14, 1323, pp. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-021-07668-1.
10. Grabowski, R. C., Vercruysse, K., Holman, I., Azhoni, A., Bala, B., Shankar, V., ... & Meersmans, J. (2022). The land–river interface: a conceptual framework of environmental process interactions to support sustainable development. Sustainability Science, 1-17.
11. Vercruysse, K., Grabowski, R. C., Holman, I., Azhoni, A., Bala, B., Meersmans, J., Peng, J., Shankar, V., ... & Zhang, Z. (2022). Placed-based interpretation of the sustainable development goals for the land-river interface. Sustainability Science, 17(4), 1695-1714.
12. Sharma, A., Bansal, P., Chandel, A. and Shankar, V. (2024). Modelling stage–discharge relationship of Himalayan river using ANN, SVM and ANFIS. Sustainable Water Resources Management, 10(2), p.88. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40899-024-01069-4
13. Sharma A., Kumar A., Shankar V., Thakur P.K. (2024). Hydrological modeling for rainfall–runoff assessment in a sub-Himalayan catchment using a distributed MIKE SHE/MIKE+ model. Water Practice & Technology, doi.org/10.2166/wpt.2024.158
14. Singh, S., Tripura, J., & Shankar, V. (2024). Identification of well parameters by the GIS and resistivity (RS) methods in the Hamirpur district (HP). Sustainable Water Resources Management, 10(2), 87. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40899-024-01066-7
15. Nagial, K. S., Kumar, N., Poddar, A., Shankar, V., & Rustum, R. (2025). Treated wastewater irrigation for ornamental plants: a systematic review. ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 31(1), 123-132.
16. Sharma, A., Kumar, A., Shankar, V., & Thakur, P. K. (2025). Integrated MIKE SHE/MIKE+ Modelling and Isotopic investigations for Freshwater Assessment of Suketi Catchment in Northwest Himalayas. Isotopes in Environment and Health Studies. (Accepted).
17. Saini, Anuj, and Vijay Shankar. (2025) "Investigating microbial fuel cell performance by developing salt bridge from agar and activated carbon derived from pinecones." Advances in Environmental Technology 11.2 : 116-129.
18. Thakur, A., Chandel, A., & Shankar, V. (2025). Prediction of groundwater levels using a long short-term memory (LSTM) technique. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 27(1), 51-68.
19. Sharma, A., Shankar, V., Thakur, P. K., & Dhote, P. R. (2025). Identification of regional moisture sources responsible for heavy rainfall events and groundwater contribution in the Suketi River catchment, Western Himalayas, using isotopes. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2025.2479101
20. Chaudhary, D., Sharma, A., & Shankar, V. (2025). Comparative study of various reference evapotranspiration models under different agroclimatic zones. Water Science & Technology, wst2025065.https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2025.065
21. Poddar, A., Kumar, N., Shankar, V., & Rustum, R. (2025). Modeling root zone soil moisture dynamics under the influence of shallow groundwater table by considering capillary rise. ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/09715010.2025.2511027
10. Thesis Supervised/Ongoing (Ph.D/M.Tech.)
Ph. D = 08 Completed 05 Ongoing
M Tech = 61 Completed 05 Ongoing
11. Short Term Training Programs/Workshops/STCs Organized: 30
12. Expert Lectures Delivered: 38
13. Research/Consultancy Projects: Completed 12, Ongoing: 06
14. Membership of professional bodies
Life Member NSFMFP (LM 534)
Life Member of ISTE (LM-27985)
Life Member of AAM (LM- 1353)
Life Member ISRS (L-6246)
Fellow IoE (F-1298145
15. Prominent sponsored Research and Consultancy Projects
S. No. Title of Project Sponsored by Amount P.I./Co-Investigator Status
1. Monitoring and Assessment of Mountain Ecosystem and Services in North-West Himalaya (Phase-II): Monitoring and Modeling of Hydrological Processes in Glaciated and Non-Glaciated Watersheds of North-West Himalaya IIRS DEhradun under the aegis of ISRO Rs 32 Lacs Dr Vijay Shankar at NIT Hamirpur
Dr Praveen Thakur st IIRS Dehradun 2022-2025
(Ongoing)
2 Social-economic-environmental trade-offs in managing the Land-River-Interface "SeeLARI” Government of India
Ministry of Science & Technology
Department of Biotechnology,
Natural Environment Research Council-UK
National Science Foundation, China
(International Collaborative Project) Rs. 79.4156 Lakhs (NIT Hamirpur Rs. 31.382 Lacs)
PIs: Dr. Vijay Shankar
NIT-Harmipur, INDIA
Dr. Adani Azhoni,
National Institute of Technology Karnataka,
Dr. Brij Bala
CSK HPKV, HAREC, Bajaura
Dr. Robert Grabowski
Cranfield University, UK
Prof. Ian Holman,
Cranfield University, UK
Dr. Jeroen Meersmans,
Cranfield University, UK
Dr. Jian Peng
Peking University, Beijing, China
2019-2022
(Ongoing)
3 Sustaining Himalayan Water Resources in a Changing Climate (SusHi-Wat)
Newton Bhabha Fund Ministry of Earth Sciences, GOI - Natural Environment Research Council-UK
(International Collaborative Project Rs. 800 Lacs
(NIT Hamirpur Rs. 56.8 Lacs)
PIs: Dr. Vijay Shankar
NIT-Harmipur, INDIA
Prof. Adeloye J. Adebayo, HW University UK
Prof Ian Holman, Cranfield University, UK
Dr L. Beevers, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Prof C. S. P. Ojha, IIT-Roorkee
Prof. Anil Kulkarni, IISc Bangalore
Prof. Sanjay Jain, NIH Roorkee
2016-2020 (Completed)
4 Mitigating Climate Change Impacts on Indian Agriculture Through Improved Irrigation Water Management
Ministry of Earth Sciences – GOI, Natural Environment Research Council-UK
(International Collaborative Project)
Rs. 600 Lacs
(NIT Hamirpur Rs. 29.6 Lacs)
PI: Prof. CSP Ojha IIT Roorkee & Prof. Adeloye Adebayo, UK
PI: Vijay Shankar, from NIT Hamirpur,
Prof. K.K. Singh, NIT Kurukshetra, Prof. K.S. Hari Prasad, IIT Roorkee
2012-2016 (Completed)
5 Concurrent Evaluation Study for Minor Irrigation Schemes being executed in Himachal Pradesh under Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme i.e., PMKSY 1.0
HP Irrigation and Public Health Department
Rs. 11.00 Lacs Dr. Vijay Shankar
NIT-Hamirpur, INDIA
Dr. Pardeep Kumar
NIT-Hamirpur, INDIA
2015-16
6 Comprehensive Investigations in the catchment of river Swan Una District (HP) for Watershed development and Management.
HP Irrigation and Public Health Department
Rs. 1.80 Lacs
Prof. R.K. Sharma
NIT-Hamirpur, INDIA
Dr. Vijay Shankar
NIT-Hamirpur, INDIA
2015-16
7 Study for Assessment of Flow of Water at Pazina (Pogoda) Khud, a Water Body, Flowing in to Sutlej River
Ambuja Cement Company, Darlaghat (HP)
Rs. 2.50 Lacs
Dr. Vijay Shankar
NIT-Hamirpur, INDIA
September-2009-November, 2010
8 Application of Wollastonite micro fiber reinforced self-compacting concrete overlay for rehabilitating District and Village roads in Himachal Pradesh. Department of Science, Technology and Environment, HP Rs. 5.05 Lacs Dr. Vijay Shankar
NIT-Hamirpur, INDIA
Dr. Shashi Kant Sharma
NIT-Hamirpur, INDIA
2018-2020
(Completed)
9 Concurrent Evaluation Studies for the Swan River Flood Management Project Phase-IV HP Irrigation and Public Health Department
Rs. 5.90 Lacs Dr. Vijay Shankar 2018-19
10 DPR preparation for new generation watershed development projects WDC-PMKSY 2.0 for the state of Himachal Pradesh State Level Nodal Agency (SLNA) Rural Development Department (RDD) Rs. 75 Lakhs Dr Vijay Shankar 2022-23
11. Evaluation of irrigation structures in HP Horticulture development project funded by World Bank. HP Horticulture Department Rs. 35 Lakha Dr Vijay Shankar 2022-2024
(Dr. Vijay Shankar)
Associate Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
National Institute of Technology Hamirpur
Himachal Pradesh, India – 177005