D. S. Chaskar is a postgraduate in "Design Engineering " from IIT, Mumbai. He joined the Central Water Engineering (Group 'A' ) Services of Central Water Commission as Assistant Director in 1991. Since then he has worked in various directorates of CWC in the capacity of Assistant director/Deputy Director. As Assitant Director he was associated with cost appraisal of W.R. projects. During his stint in Hydel Civil Design Directorate, he worked on the application of advanced techniques and use of computers in design of W.R. structures.

He has professional experience in Design of Gates, Hoists and other hydro-mechanical equipments for W.R. Projects. He has handled planning and design of hydro-mechanical equipment for number of Projects. He was instrumental in use of Computer Aided Design, particularly FEM and its application to hydraulic structures. He is well conversant with "IDEAS" software and other softwares on CAD, FEM.

As Deputy Director in Technical Coordination Dte, he was responsible for proving inputs for technical engagements of Chairman. The responsibilities also included compilation & publication of annual report of CWC, coordination of visits of foreign delegates to CWC, matters pertaining to Parliament Committees, organizational issues, etc.

As Deputy Director(A&C) and Director (A&C), NWA, he has handled general administration, establishment, accounts, contracts, infrastructural development, and R&M of NWA complex in addition to his normal duties as a core faculty and course-coordinator. He has significant contribution in the infrastructual develompmet works in terms of construction of office buildings, annexe building, guesthouses, swimming pool, new Krishna guest house, jogging track etc. He was one of the officer instrumental in establishing & making the new NWA campus operational with all logistics & services.

In NWA, He has been co-coordinating courses in the specialized areas like designs of water resources structures, Finite Element Analysis, Hydrological Information System including use of softwares such as SWDES, HYMOS, WISDOM developed under Hydrology Project, Command Area Development, Participatory Irrigation Management, etc. As core faculty the subjects being handled by him are Information Technology, as applied to Water Resources Sector, computer programming, FEM Modeling, Design of hydro-mechanical equipments and hydro power structures, application softwares like SWDES, HYMOS, WISDOM etc. He also conducts National & International Distance learning programes in association woth World Meterological Organisation (WMO).

Contact :
+91-20-24380224 (Office)
+91-20-24380110(Fax)

E-mail :
nwa[dot]mah[at]nic[dot]in,
dschaskar[at]yahoo[dot]com