ICAR Personnel Management System

Executive Record Sheet

Name	Dr. Gangalakunta Pedda Obi Reddy
ERP ID	008436
Present Designation	Head of Division
Cadre Type	Head of Division
Date of Birth (MM/DD/YYYY)	03/01/1966
Gender	Male
State of Domicile	Andhra Pradesh
Mother Tongue	Telugu
Email Address	GPO.Reddy@icar.gov.in

Educational Qualifications (From Graduation Onwards)

Degree	From	To	Institution	Thesis Title (If any)
B.Sc	01/Jul/1985	30/Jun/1988	Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati (A.P.)
M.Sc (Geography)	02/Jul/1990	31/Jul/1992	Sri Srishnadevaraya University, Anantapur (A.P.)
PGDCS	01/Apr/1999	31/Mar/2000	University Of Hyderabad
Ph.D (Geography)		16/Feb/1996	Sri Krishnadevaraya University	Applied Geo-ecological Study of Land and Water Resources for Sustainable Land Use Development of Anantapur District.. Using Remote Sensing Techniques

History of Posting

S.No.	Designation	Name of Institute/ Organization	From	To
1	Scientist.	National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use planning,NBSSLUP (MI), Nagpur	07-Aug-1997	10-Sep-2001
2	Scientist.	National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use planning,NBSSLUP (MI), Nagpur	11-Sep-2001	30-Jun-2006
3	Scientist.	National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use planning,NBSSLUP (MI), Nagpur	01-Jul-2006	06-Aug-2006
4	Senior Scientist.	National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use planning,NBSSLUP (MI), Nagpur	07-Aug-2006	12-Mar-2009
5	Senior Scientist.	National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use planning,NBSSLUP (MI), Nagpur	13-Mar-2009	07-Jul-2012
6	Senior Scientist.	National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use planning,NBSSLUP (MI), Nagpur	08-Jul-2012	06-Aug-2012
7	Principal Scientist.	National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use planning,NBSSLUP (MI), Nagpur	07-Aug-2012	12-Aug-2016
8	Principal Scientist.	National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use planning,NBSSLUP (MI), Nagpur	13-Aug-2016	31-Aug-2016
9	Principal Scientist.	National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use planning,NBSSLUP (MI), Nagpur	01-Sep-2016	03-Oct-2016
10	Principal Scientist.	National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use planning,NBSSLUP (MI), Nagpur	04-Oct-2016	31-Jan-2017
11	Principal Scientist.	National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use planning,NBSSLUP (MI), Nagpur	01-Feb-2017	03-Feb-2017
12	Principal Scientist.	National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use planning,NBSSLUP (MI), Nagpur	04-Feb-2017	31-Dec-2017
13	Principal Scientist.	National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use planning,NBSSLUP (MI), Nagpur	01-Jan-2018	31-Mar-2018
14	Principal Scientist.	National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use planning,NBSSLUP (MI), Nagpur	01-Apr-2018	13-Jul-2020
15	Principal Scientist.	National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use planning,NBSSLUP (MI), Nagpur	14-Jul-2020	05-Feb-2023
16	Head of Division.	National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use planning,NBSSLUP (MI), Nagpur	06-Feb-2023	15-Mar-2023
17	Head of Division.	National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use planning,NBSSLUP (MI), Nagpur	16-Mar-2023

Training Details

Training

Program Name	Country	Venue	From	To	Program Organized by
Agricultural Research Information System (ARIS) Software Programme	IN	CIAE, Bhopal	9/4/1997 12:00:00 AM	9/12/1997 12:00:00 AM	Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering
Foundation Course on Agriculture Research Management (FOCARS)	IN	NAARM, Nagpur	10/3/1997 12:00:00 AM	1/29/1998 12:00:00 AM	ICAR-NAARM
Remote Sensing & GIS for Resources Mapping’	IN	ISRO-RRSC, Nagpur	4/20/1998 12:00:00 AM	5/1/1998 12:00:00 AM	Regional Remote Sensing Service Centre (RRSSC)
Remote Sensing, Digital Image Processing & GIS	IN	National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA, Hyderabad	7/13/1998 12:00:00 AM	9/25/1998 12:00:00 AM	National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA
Soil Survey and Land Evaluation	IN	ICAR-NBSS&LUP, Nagpur	11/2/1998 12:00:00 AM	1/23/1999 12:00:00 AM	National Bureau of Soil Survey & Land Use Planning (NBSS&LUP),
Advanced software training on RDBMS, GIS and Spatial Data Management	IN	National Institute of Information Technology (NIIT), Bangalore	3/26/2002 12:00:00 AM	4/24/2002 12:00:00 AM	National Institute of Information Technology (NIIT)
Managing Geo-databaseusing ArcSDE & Oracle’	IN	National Bureau of Soil Survey & Land Use Planning (NBSS&LUP), Nagpur	7/21/2003 12:00:00 AM	7/26/2003 12:00:00 AM	National Bureau of Soil Survey & Land Use Planning (NBSS&LUP)
Web Design, Data Management and Data Minin	IN	Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI), New Delhi	11/1/2004 12:00:00 AM	11/3/2004 12:00:00 AM	Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI)
RISAT-UP Radar Remote Sensing & Applications	IN	Regional Remote Sensing Centre (RRSC, Nagpur	2/22/2010 12:00:00 AM	3/5/2010 12:00:00 AM	Regional Remote Sensing Centre (RRSC

Winter School

Program Name	Country	Venue	From	To	Program Organized by
GIS for Land Resource Data Management’	IN	ICAR-NBSS&LUP (RC), Bangalore, Bangalore	10/3/2001 12:00:00 AM	10/23/2001 12:00:00 AM	ICAR-NBSS&LUP (RC), Bangalore
Remote Sensing and GIS in Agriculture Statistics’	IN	Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI), New Delhi	8/6/2003 12:00:00 AM	8/26/2003 12:00:00 AM	Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI)
GIS Based Decision Support Systems for Sustainable Agriculture	IN	National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM), Hyderabad	7/5/2006 12:00:00 AM	7/25/2006 12:00:00 AM	National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM)

Publications

Journal

S.No.	Year	Title of Publication	Name of Publisher	Citation
1	2016	Assessment of soil erosion in tropical ecosystem of Goa, India using Universal Soil Loss Equation, geostatistics and GIS	Indian Association of Soil and Water Conservationists
2	2013	Geospatial modeling in assessment of biophysical resources for sustainable land resource managemen	International Soceity for Tropical Ecology	2
3	2013	Terrain Characterization for soil resource mapping in part of semi-tract of Central India using high resolution satellite data and GIS	Indian Society of Remote Sensing	7
4	2005	Characterization and classification of landforms and soils over basaltic terrain in sub-humid tropics of central India	Indian Society of Soil Science	38
5	2004	GIS and Remote sensing Applications in Prioritization of River sub basins using Morphometric and USLE Parameters - A Case study	Asian Association on Remote Sensing	14
6	2004	Drainage Morphometry and Its Influence on Landform Characteristics in Basaltic Terrain – A Remote Sensing and GIS Approach	Elsevier	162
7	2003	Delineation and Characterization of Geomorphological features in a part of Lower Maharahstra Metamorphic Plateau, using IRS-ID LISS-III data	Indian Society of Remote Sensing
8	2002	Geomorphological Analysis for Inventory of Degraded Lands in a River basin of Basaltic Terrain, Using Remote Sensing Data and Geographical Information	Indian Society of Remote Sensing	8
9	2002	GIS for Morhophometric Analysis of River basins	GIS India	54
10	2001	Landscape Ecological Planning in a Basaltic Terrain, Central India, Using Remote sensing and GIS Techniques	Indian Society of Remote Sensing	9
11	2000	Evaluation of Groundwater potential zones using Remote sensing data - A case study from Gaimukh watershed, Bhandara district, Maharashtra,	Indian Society Remote Sensing	63

Awards

S.No.	Name of Award	Awarding organization	Place	Year	Prize
1	Indian National Geospatial Award	Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS)	Kolkata, India	2007
2	National Geospatial Award for Excellence	Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS)	Hyderabad, India	2013

Patent, Copyright, Trademark etc.

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Externally Funded Projects

S.No.	PI/Co-PI	Project Title	Year	Duration	Funding Agency
1	Co-PI	Spatial assessment of soil erosion of different States of India Using Grid point data in GIS	2000	Jan, 2000- March, 2011
2	Co-PI	Integrated National Agricultural Resources Information System (INARIS) – Soil Resource Database	2001	April, 2001 to Dec, 2004	ICAR
3	Co-PI	Technology Assessment and Refinement of Cereal Based Rainfed Agro-Ecosystem Through Institute-Village (Kokarda-Kaniyadol) Linkage Programme in Eastern	2001	April, 2001 to December, 2004
4	Co-PI	Georeferenced Soil Information System for Land Use Planning and Monitoring Soil and Land Quality for Agriculture	2009	April, 2009 to June, 2012	NAIP (ICAR)
5	Co-PI	ICAR Research Data Repository for Knowledge Management, (KRISHI)	2015	2015-2017	ICAR
6	Co-PI	Development of Digital Terrain and Land Use dynamics geodatabase on 1:10k scale for land resource inventory of Cultivated and fallow land use systems	2015	2015-2018	RKVY
7	Co-PI	Land Use Planning for Rural Livelihood Security in Backward Districts of Maharashtra	2009	April 2009 to Dec 2012	NAIP (ICAR)
8	PI	Enrichment of land degradation datasets with soils datasets of different states of India	2010	2010-2011	NRSC, Hyderabad
9	PI	Mapping and Assessment of Land Degradation in Major Ecosystems of India Using Geospatial Technologies	2016	2016-2017	ICAR
10	PI	Ecological Evaluation of Land Resources and Land Use Systems for Sustainable Development at Watershed level in Different Agro-Ecological Zones of Vida	2005	2005-2008	ICAR

Career Profile

Cadre Name	Date	Mode of recruitment (CAS/DR)
Scientist	07 Aug 1997	DR
Scientist (sr scale)	07 Aug 2001	CAS
Sr. Scientist	07 Aug 2006	CAS
Pr. Scientist	07 Aug 2012	CAS

Five Major Contributions

S.No.	Major Contribution
1	Design and development of Land Resource Information System of India and operational NBSS&LUP BHOOMI GeoPortal and significant contributions were made in operational of ICAR KRISHI Geoporal
2	Development of digital terrain database and landform mapping for 14 blocks in different states as part of land resource inventory project at 1:10k
3	Development of seamless soil information system of India (1:250,000 scale), district soil information system (1:50,000 scale) for 50 districts in GIS
4	Development of GIS based methodology for harmonization of wasteland vs land degradation datasets of India
5	Computation of USLE factors and assessment of soil loss for 25 states and generation of soil loss map of India