Principal Scientist (Animal Genetics and Breeding, Incharge, Agriculture Research Information System Cell, Incharge AICRP on Goat Improvement – Barbari Unit

M. Sc. (Ag), Ph.D. Animal Breeding (GBPUA&T Pantnagar, Nanital.)

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He is a hard core Open Source Software/Free Software/Linux /GNU software adovocate and actvist. He has been involved in Open Source Software/Free Software advocacy in National Agriculture Research System of India since 1996-97. Dr  Singh as a student of M.Sc. Animal Breeding studied Agricultural Statistics and Computer Programming as a minor subject and secured 5.00 OGPA out of 5.00. Since then, he wrote about 15 computer programmes for statistical analysis of agricultural data and analyses animal breeding data using VCE-5, DFREML and ASREML packages for variance and co-variance estimations. After his joining as scientist in Indian Council of  Agricultural Research, New Delhi on 22 March, 1985 and posting at Central Institute  for Research on Goats, Mathura, he worked as Incharge of  Institute’s Computer Centre  between 1992-93 and heading Agricultural Research Information System (ARIS) Cell since 1995.  He has been instrumental in creating LAN of the Institute through CAT-5/6 cables and telephonic media. As an OSS/FS activist, he helped approximately 80 agriculture institutions and  universities in India in establishing the LAN using Linux and OSS/FS software.  The first functional LAN among agricultural Institutions  of the India (and probably of the world) was created by the webmaster using OSS/FS during the year 1997. He configured about seven ,E-mail conferencing systems using “majordomo” software on various agriculture subjects during year 1998. He has expertise  in network administration using Linux and Unix,  DNS management using bind, e-mail server management throgh sendmail, “qmail” and “squarrelmail” web server administration  using Apache,  telephonic internet using “mgetty”, network security administration using IPTables and Se-Linux, and developed a manual on Networking with Linux .

He was nominated by ICAR, New Delhi as first Member Secretary of National Task Force Committee for training and Implementation of OSS/FS in NARS of India in the year 1998. Under this programme, he organized four national trainings entitled “Networking with Linux”  and trained about 50 scientists from more than twenty Institutes/Universities of NARS of India. A regional training for ICT staff of International Plant Genetics Resource Institute now known as Bioversity International form ASIA and Pacific  was organized by him which was attended by scientists from Italy, China, Thailand and India centers of IPGRI. He was invited as guest speaker  to deliver lecture on Use of Linux and Zope in Gateway Development by IPGRI, Bangkok center at Suwan, South Korea in its Asia Pacific Regional Workshop on Gate Way Development during  October, 2002. He was also invited as a guest speaker  in the Training Programme organized by CABI International and IARI, New Delhi and also by Asia Pacific Agricultural Net Work (APAN) Japan and IIT Mumbai, on various aspects of GNU/Free Software.

As an animal breeder he is involved in Small Ruminants Production and & Research Information System . The information system will be available for users soon

• Started Open Software Movement in NARS of India during year 1996

• Brough about 100 Institutes/Agriculture Univerities on Linux and OSS/FS platform

• Author of a manual entitled “Networking with Linux”

• Wrote more than 15 Computer Programmes for data Analysis

• Among the first users of Linux Operating System in India. 1995

• First Institute went on Intranet using Linux and GNU based software in India .

• Created first website of NARS of India at the Institute location using Linux OS and Apachae webserer in the year 1998.

• Among first in India to create mailing list servers on 7 topics of Agriculture.

Expert in setting up Dial In conectivity Activities

• Advocacy for use of Linux and GNU based Software in Agriculture and Animal Production

• LAN Connectivity  for e-mail and Internet to all the room of the building .

• Squid Proxy server

• List server on Agriculture Related Subjects

• Expert in Redhat, Slackware, SuSe and Ubuntu flavors of Linux operating system.

• ppp server for dial in server using mgetty

• FTDMA and SKY Surfer VSAT and leased line Modem conectivity

• Web designing and hoisting

• Organise Training of ARIS Personnel in GNU software

• Free Consultancy - 100 Instituteswere brought on Linux platform.

• Statistical Analysis of Livestock data

• Computer Perogramming for Statistical Methods