IITKGP

Rajendra Singh

Professor

Agricultural and Food Engineering

+91-3222-283148

rsingh@agfe.iitkgp.ac.in

Research Areas

  • Hydrological Modelling & Watershed Manag
  • Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
  • Climate Impacts on Water Resources
  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Committed to develop an indigeneous National Hydrological Model
  • Spatio-temporal analysis of land use and land cover change: a systematic model intercomparison driven by integrated modelling techniques Gaur S., Mittal A. , Bandyopadhyay A. , Holman I. , Singh R. By International Journal of Remote Sensing 41 9229-9255 (2020)
  • Discharge coefficient of rectangular side weirs Singh, R., Manivannan, D. and Satyanarayana, T. By Journal of Irrigation & Drainage Engineering, ASCE 120(1) 814-819 (1994)
  • Projecting land use growth and associated impacts on hydrological balance through scenario-based modelling in the Subarnarekha basin, India. Gaur S., Bandyopadhyay A. , Singh R. By Hydrological Sciences Journal 1-14 (2021)
  • From Changing Environment to Changing Extremes: Exploring the Future Streamflow and Associated Uncertainties Through Integrated Modelling System Gaur S., Bandyopadhyay A., Singh R. By Water Resources Management 35 1889-1911 (2021)
  • Continuous Contour Trench (CCT): Understandings of hydrological processes after standardisation of dimensions and development of a user-friendly software Nagdeve M., Paul P.K., Zhang Y., Singh R. By Soil and Tillage Research 205 - (2021)
  • Hydrological modelling of a small watershed using MIKE SHE for irrigation planning Singh, R., Subramanian, K. and Refsgaard, J.C. By Agricultural Water Management 41 149-166 (1999)
  • Application of a newly developed large-scale conceptual hydrological model in simulating streamflow for credibility testing in data scarce condition Paul P.K., Kumari B., Gaur S., Mishra A., Panigrahy N., Singh R. By Natural Resource Modeling 33 12283- (2020)
  • Identification of the best multi-model combination for simulating river discharge Kumar Arun, R Singh, Prachi P Jena, C Chatterjee, Ashok Mishra By Journal of Hydrology 525 313-325 (2015)
  • Evapotranspiration modelling using artificial neural network Kumar, M., Raghuwanshi, N.S., Singh, R., Wallender, W.W. and Pruitt, W.O. By Journal of Irrigation & Drainage Engineering, ASCE 128(4) 224-233 (2002)
  • The Indus and the Ganges: river basins under extreme pressure Sharma, B,, Amarsinghe, U., Xueliag, C., Condappa, D., Shah, T., Mukherji, A, Singh, R., Ambili, G. and Quereshi, A. By Water International 35(5) 493-521 (2010)

Principal Investigator

  • Development and Field Implementation of a Conceptual Hydrological Model for Efficient River Basin Planning and Management

Co-Principal Investigator

  • Development of Digital Platform for Financial Inclusion and Rural Women Empowerment Apex Committee of SPARC
  • National Initiative for Design Innovation MHRD
  • Securing Water for Agricultural and Food Sustainability: Developing Transdisciplinary Approach to Ground Water Management Apex Committee of SPARC

Ph. D. Students

Durgam Maheshwar

Area of Research: Moisture and plant nutrients migration in soil

Kallem Sushanth

Area of Research: Hydrological Modelling

Krishna Mondal

Area of Research: Hydrological Modeling

Uday Pratap Singh Bhadoriya

Area of Research: Reservoir operation modelling