Branch Chief
Special Projects and Coordination Branch and
South Asian Development Fund (SADF) Secretariat
Nepal Industrial Development Corporation (NIDC)
NIDC Building, Durbar Marg, Kathmandu, Nepal

PO Box - 2897, Kathmandu, Nepal

Tel.: 977 1 4228 322 (o.), 977 1 4473 925 (h.)
Fax: 977 1 4227 428
E-mail: Shashi@icon.com.np, ShashiBhattarai@yahoo.com

Heading three sections within the Special Projects and Coordination Branch at NIDC, namely the SADF Secretariat, Regional Office Coordination Section and Information Technology Section.

• South Asian Development Fund (SADF) Secretariat.
  The objective of the SADF is to provide finances for industrial development, poverty alleviation, protection of environment, and balance of payments support and for the promotion of economic projects in the region.
• Regional Office Coordination Section.
  Coordination of all the activities of four Regional offices of NIDC with the central office in the development financing in the far Western, Midwestern, Western and Eastern development region of Nepal.
• Information Technology Section.
  Implementation and Operation of SME Center in association with Association of Development Financing Institution for Asia and the Pacific, ADFIAP, Manila, Philippines, an Internet based business portal for small and medium enterprise (SME). Project Implementation: application software related projects for NIDC's process automation, arranging workshops and training for internal staff on computer application, creating awareness on information technology and Internet application for Private Sector Development Financing Process. Publication of internally circulated IT Bulletin (editor-in-chief). Resource person for teaching Project Management in-house training to Project Officers.

• Masters in Engineering, Infrastructure Planning and Management (focused on Development Decisions), School of Civil Engineering, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand, 1997 (under JJ/WBGSP fellowship awarded in 1995).
• Bachelors of Civil Engineering, University of Roorkee, India, 1986.
  

• Creative Decisions Foundation (CDF), USA Grant to participate and present paper on The 7th International Symposium on Analytic Hierarchy Process - ISAHP 2003, August 7-9, 2003 at Bali, Indonesia.
• AOTS, Japan, Training Award, Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS), Japan and Center for the International Cooperation for Computerization (CICC), Japan, January 2001.
• DFID, UK Grant to Participate and Present paper in 26th and 28th WEDC Conference (2000 & 2002) at Dhaka and Calcutta, organized by Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC), Loughborough University, UK.
• Best Performance Award with Cash Prize and Letter of Appreciation with Cash Prize, Nepal Industrial Development Corporation (NIDC) for the year 1992/93 and 1999/2000 respectively.
  

• Analytic Hierarchy Process for Development Decisions: Progress and Prospects in Nepal, Paper accepted for presentation and publication in Proceeding of International Symposium on Analytic Hierarchy Process (ISAHP 2003), Bali, Indonesia, August 7-9, 2003.
• Simulation Approach for Rural Water Supply and Sanitation System Analysis, Engineers in Social Transformation. Proceeding of Eighth National Convention of Engineers and Federation of Engineering Institutions of South and Central Asia (FEISCA) Regional Meet, Organized by Nepal Engineers' Association (NEA), April 3-5, 2003, Kathmandu, Nepal.
• Optimizing Water Use in Kathmandu Valley: Urban Water Supply Management - Decision Making, Development Insight, ISSN: 1726-7501, 3:39-41.2003
• Coping with Information Overload: Need for Smart Decision Making, Proceeding of 2nd IT Conference, on CD, Computer Association of Nepal (CAN), Kathmandu, Nepal, 2003
• Application of System Dynamics in RWSS Analysis, co-author: Bhanu Neupane, Sustainable Environmental Sanitation & Water Services, Proceeding of 28th WEDC Conference, Jointly organized by Institution of Public Health Engineers (IPHE), India and Water, Engineering and Development Center (WEDC), Loughborough University, United Kingdom held at Calcutta India, November 2002.
• Advances in Civil Engineering from Decision Making Perspective, Advances in Civil Engineering, Editors J. N. Bandyopadhyay and D. Nagesgh Kumar, Preceding of International Conferences in Advances in Civil Engineering - ACE 2002, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kahgarpur, (ISBN 81-7764-243-X), Allied Publishers Limited, New-Delhi, India, 2002
• Professional Quality Improvement for Engineers: A TQM Approach. Proceeding of Seventh National Convention of Engineers and Federation of Engineering Institutions of South and Central Asia (FEISCA) Regional Meet, Organized by Nepal Engineers Association (NEA), Kathmandu, Nepal, April 2001
• Quality Management: An Awareness to Nepalese Consulting Community, SCAEF Souvenir, 10th Anniversary publication of Society of Nepalese Consulting Architectural and Engineering Firms (SCEAF), January 2001, Nepal.
• Informed Decision-Making for Drainage Management, co-author: Dr. Bhanu Neupane, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: Challenges of the Millennium (Edited by John Pickford), Proceeding of the 26th WEDC Conference, (ISBN: 0 906055 89 X), Dhaka, Engineering and Development Center (WEDC), Loughborough University, United Kingdom, 2000
• Decision Making for Management of Megacities: Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach, Proceding of International Conference on Managing Megacities in Developing Countries, Institution of Public Health Engineers (IPHE), India, Calcutta, 1998
• Decision-Making for Infrastructure Development: Analytical Hierarchy Process Approach, Sixth National Convention of Engineers on Resources Management for Infrastructure Development, Nepal Engineers Association (NEA), Kathmandu, Nepal, 1998
• Appropriate Scale of Hydropower Development for Nepal: An Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach. A multidisciplinary stockholders analysis for Hydropower Development in Nepal, AIT Thesis No IP-02-97, 1997
• Decision Making Tools for the Consultants of the Next Millennium: With Specific Reference to Infrastructure Development, Proceeding of International Workshop on Consultancy in the Next Millennium, Organized by SCAEF in collaboration with UN-ESCAP, APCTT, ITC and Coordinated by TDDPAP and CDC, 1998.
• Evaluation of Appropriate Scale of Hydropower Development for Nepal: An Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach, Co-authored with Prof. O. Fujiwara, Proceeding of International Conference on Large-Scale Water Resources Development in Developing Countries: New Dimension of Problems and Prospects, Kathmandu, Nepal, 1997
  

• Nepal Malaysia Friendship Association. President.
• Management Association of Nepal (MAN)
• Nepal Engineers Association (NEA)
• Technical Committee, Nepal Engineers' Association, 2001-2003
• International Technical Committee, CONMAT-2003, IIT Khagarpur
• IIT Roorkee Thomason Alumni Association, Nepal Chapter, 1999-2004. Executive Member
• Publication Committee, Nepal Engineers' Association, 1999-2001
• Computer Association of Nepal (CAN)
• Asian Institute of Technology Alumni Association (AITAA). Life Member
• Management Information Synergic Solution (MISSION), 1998-2001. Executive Member