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 * Harish Kumar Solanki
 * Assistant Professor
 * NIRD jaipur Center, India
 * http://www.linkedin.com/in/hksolanki
 * hksolanki@nird.gov.in
 * harry.om2000@gmail.com

Harish Kumar Solanki is Assistant Professor at the 'National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD), Jaipur Center', Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India. He is a great propagator of FOSS GIS. He leads and conduct Training programs in the 'NIRD', India and promotes OSGeo software for use in the public authorities. His extensive work on GIS focuses on Watershed Management and Rural Development.

Since November 2010, up to June, 2013, he has conducted 22 practical lab based Training programs,as mostly single or main resource person, on Applications of Open Source GIS (QGIS) in Rural Development Sectors, of 5-6 days duration, for Senior and Middle level officials/functionaries of Rural development sector, public representatives and reputed NGO, with total 532 participants, 120 Training days and 2914 Training man days.

NIRD provides free of cost trainings to Government officials,Elected Public representatives and reputed NGO representatives. He has created a LinkedIn group also to provide 'post training support' platform to the participants. Group presently has 213 active members, with growing numbers after each training program.

He actively remains involved and interested in activities of OSGeo-India and participated in FOSSG-India 2012 at IIIT, Hyderabad also, on his own. In some trainings, he invites OSGeo-India charter members also for special lectures.

His main targets/wishes related to FOSSG are mainly translation of GUI, training manuals in Hindi and other local languages, promoting use of FOSSG in Government and NGO sector, widening the scope of training programs at NIRD Jaipur center and making it a hub of training/capacity building in the filed of Open Source GIS etc.

Links
A case study for use of QGIS in Indian government: LinkedIn web site (Profile): LinkedIn group (for post training support): Work: Previous:
 * http://www.qgis.org/en/community/qgis-case-studies/hyderabad-india.html
 * http://www.linkedin.com/in/hksolanki
 * http://www.linkedin.com/groups/My-GIS-Open-Source-Training-4054520/about
 * http://www.nird.org.in/
 * http://watershed.rajasthan.gov.in/