Dr Chetan Singla has worked as Co-PI and associated scientist in the competitive and sponsored projects funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), DST-ASRT (Funded by India-Egypt), National Innovations on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA), National Hydrology Project (NHP) and ICAR AICRP (List attached). Dr Singla was awarded three copyrights from the Copyright Office, Government of India (List Attached). He has organized winter school as coordinator on “Artificial Intelligence for Water Resource Management” by ICAR. He was awarded Netherland Fellowship 3 times for advanced training at UNESCO-IHE (Institute for Higher Education, Delft) and Centre of Development Innovation (CDI), Wageningen. He also received twice International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) fellowships for attending trainings at Trieste Italy and Philippines. He has 16 publications in the refereed journals. He is involved in the development of Sensor based micro-climate control for LITCHI orchard in Gangian Farm. 

Professional Accomplishments

Research Projects:

1. Establishment of field stations for measuring ET and Soil Moisture under National Hydrology Project (NHP) (Co-PI)(2021-till now)
2. CRP on Precision Farming and Micro Irrigation System (Associated Scientist)
3. “Development of Smart Groundwater Monitoring System” (Co-PI)

Research Publications:

1. Singla C, Aggarwal R and Kaur S (2024) Agricultural policies for mitigating groundwater depletion in Central Punjab. Groundwater for Sustainable Development, 25, 101117.
2. Singla C, Aggarwal R and Kaur S (2024) Impact of paddy on groundwater declination in Central Punjab. AQUA—Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society, 73(2), 141-151.
3. Atri A, Singla C and Sharma R (2024) Analysis of effect of weather variables on diseases of winter season fodder crops. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Climatology 155: 6001-13.
4. Singla C, Aggarwal R, Kaur S and Sharma R (2023) Artificial intelligence-based approach to study the impact of climate change and human interventions on groundwater fluctuations. Aqua. https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2023.009.
5. Atri A, Singla C and Sharma R (2022) Groundwater decline in Central Punjab – Is it a warning? Groundwater for Sustainable Development, 16, 100718.

Awards and Recognition:

1. Copyright by Govt. of India (2018) for seed sale software
2. Copyright by Govt. of India (2023) for Trend Analysis
3. Copyright by Govt. of India (2024) for Brick Wall Estimator
4. Three times Netherland Fellowship Programme Award
5. 2 times ICTP Fellowship
6. 3 months training under India-US AKI project at Ohio State University