• Luminary in Mining Education in India Award by CSIR-CIMFR, Presented by Hon’ble Union Minister for S&T, Dr. Harshvardhan, in Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi, on Feb. 15, 2017.
• Dr. Rajendra Prasad Gold Medal for best paper titled “Stress distribution on blasting gallery pillar due to goaf formation during extraction”, presented at Indian Engineering Congress
held at Chennai, Dec. 21, 2017 (Co-author: Dr. Sandi Kumar Reddy).
• Best Paper Award for paper on “Signal processing computation based seismic energy estimation of blast induced ground vibration waves”, IEEE-Int. Conf. Distributed Computing,
VLSI, Electrical Circuits and Robotics (DISCOVER 2016), Aug. 13-14, 2016, NITK-Surathkal, India (Co-author: G. Raghu Chandra) [Scopus Indexed] .
• Hindustan Zinc Limited Gold Medal for Best Paper Publication Award during 2008-09, Institution of Engineers (India), Award presented on Dec. 11, 2009 at 21st Indian Engineering
Congress held at Mangalore, December 2009.
• Dr. Rajendra Prasad Gold Medal for Best Paper published, Institution of Engineers (India), 2006-07, award presented on Dec. 21, 2006 at 21st Indian Engineering Congress held at
Guawhati, December 2007.
• Sponsored by the MOEF, Govt. of India, to USA and Canada as a part of World Bank Project on Environmental Management – Carrying Capacity Building Approach in 2003.
• Best Paper - " Blast design for improved productivity of machines in surface mines" presented in National Convention on Mechanization for Profit in Mining, Organized by Mining,
Geological & Metallurgical Institute of India, Bangalore, Nov.25-27, 1994.
• Referred as Distinguished Personality in the News of The Indian Mining & Engg. JI., V.35, No.7, Mar.1996.
• Popularized the modern Shock Tube Initiation System in Limestone industry in southern India, by conducting studies in a large number of mines.
* First time in India, a Rock Dredging Project involving Underwater Blasting was carried out in front of berth No. 8 in an area of about 1.2 Lakh sq.m in Tuticorin Port, Tamilnadu, which
totally designed by me.
• Handled very prestigious consultancy project of Design and Implementation of Controlled Blasting for excavation of 5 U/G Railway Station of BMRCL, during 2011 - 2015, Bangalore
Metro Rail Corporation Limited, without causing any untoward incident in 4 years of continuous blasting.