Subject: Letter of affiliation to participate in a UNESCO-IFCD grant project

To,

Mr. Gaurav Shorey

Founder Member – Swaraj

(NGO - 80G/12A compliant),

सदस्य - स्वराज - एक राष्ट्र ीय,

गैर सरकारी सँस्था –

सोसाइटीज रजजस्ट्र ेशन एक्ट,

१८६० के तहत पंजीकृत।

Respected Mr. Shorey,

Greetings of the day!

As an HOD of The Department of Social and Political Studies, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies, I am happy to share with you that we will be delighted to participate and collaborate, participate with you in the project as an affiliate partner in conducting certain activities. As requested, I am sharing the following details for your kind perusal.

1.Full identity of expert, including affiliations with businesses and/or

organizations and nationality : Anandajit Goswami, PhD, Associate

Professor, HOD, Department of Social and Political Studies, Faculty of

Behavioural and Social Sciences, Manav Rachna International Institute of

Research and Studies, Indian

2.Number of years of experience: 17

3. Skills/background/qualifications: Policy Analysis, Sustainability and Development Communication using Art, Culture, Fiction, Data Collection and Analysis using Analytical and Statistical Tools, Stakeholder Mapping, Coordination and Communication through FGD based research/16 years of experience on sustainability communication to a wide range of

stakeholders starting from communities to decision makers/PhD in Energy Economics and Policy Making

4. Domain of intervention and list of responsibilities/deliverables

Community studies, rural / tribal education programs: Impact assessment of rural and tribal education programmes and grey literature, interview and FGD based understanding and research of communities to create a scoping for the intervention measures in order to enable the transition of the tribal communities towards livelihood generation using vernacular art and culture Community outreach: Creation of art and local culture based entertainment modes of communication to create community outreach using the medium of music, dance, theatre and visual arts Policy implementation: A mapping of existing policies and its impact on the target communities enabling a scoping of future policy measures that need to be undertaken Data collection & documentation in field areas: Field and community based data collection through interviews and focused group discussions

Anandajit Goswami, PhD

Associate Professor, HOD Department of Social and Political Studies Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies Faridabad Author Page - https://www.amazon.in/Books-Anandajit-Goswami/s?rh=n%3A976389031%2Cp_27%3AAnandajit+Goswami Google Scholar Citation - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BmigSegAAAAJ&hl=en Website:www.anandajitgoswami.in

Brief CV - Gaurav Shorey

Gaurav Shorey has a bachelor's degree in Architecture (B.Arch. School of Planning and

Architecture, New Delhi) with a post-graduate diploma in advanced construction

management (D.A.C.M – National Institute for Construction Management and Research,

Pune).

He has twelve years of experience in the green building industry and sustainability

related education and awareness.

Currently, he fulfills the following roles:

1. Founder Member and President - '5waraj' (swærɑ:dʒ) – an NGO

working in schools and colleges across India, sensitizing children

and adults towards local, traditional knowledge systems and their

value in the current context of sustainable development and

climate change.

It works on sensitizing students on the correlation between local

culture, traditions and climate via the five basic elements as per

Indian tradition – bhasha, bhesh, bhojan, bhavan, bhajan (Dialects,

Diets, Dresses, Dwellings and Dances & Songs™)

• 5waraj serves as formal partner of the International Summer

School, New Delhi and a field partner for Engineers without

Borders (Australia), in India.

• 5waraj activities are now being proposed as curriculum

interventions in a few leading schools in Delhi.

• We shall soon start training the teachers of India's largest

network of central government schools – the Kendriya

Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) on Indian culture and its

sustainable roots.

2. Director – Psi Energy Pvt. Ltd. – Psi (Partnerships for Sustainable

India) Energy is a "green building" consultancy service based in

New Delhi, committed to working with architects and engineers on

resource efficient buildings that are rooted in India's local/regional

climate, as well as responding to Indian culture and traditions.

3. Visiting faculty at School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi

- Conducting electives, and working with fourth and fifth year

students under the research-based seminar and dissertation

programs since 2010.

4. ECBC Master trainer (BEE, GoI) – Conducting training programs for

architects, engineers and students on India's national Energy

Conservation Building Code.

5. Faculty for green building training programs – Conducting training

programs of various types and durations on energy efficiency and

green buildings.

In the past he has fulfilled the following roles:

1. Research Associate at TERI – at the Center for Research on

Sustainable Building Science (CRSBS) under the leadership of Ms.

Mili Majumdar & Mr Pradeep Kumar.

2. Area Convenor of GRIHA - part of the team responsible for setting

up GRIHA Council as well as developing GRIHA as India's National

green building rating system.

3. Assistant Professor of Architecture at Ansal's University, Gurgaon,

India - Part of a team responsible for establishing the proposed

Sushant School of Graduate Studies; developing the curriculum for

a Post Graduate course in Sustainable Environmental Design.

4. Resource person for UN-HABITAT's International training

programs - for government officials of Asian countries, organized

In South Korea, jointly by the International Urban Training Centre,

South Korea and UN-HABITAT.

5. He has trained over 11,000 (yup! Eleven thousand!) professionals

on energy efficiency and green buildings, in India and abroad,

organized for government and private bodies such as:

• EMC Kerala

• Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE)

• Central Public Works Department (CPWD)

• Haryana Renewable Energy Development Agency (HAREDA)

• Delhi Transco Limited

• Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Delhi)

• Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy (Dehradun)

Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (Mussoorie)

Dear Mr. Shorey,

This has reference to your trailing e-mail on the above subject matter.

As per the telephonic talk you had with Ms. Parul Zaveri, and as instructed by her

I am pleased to attach herewith detailed CV of Ms. Parul Zaveri which consist the

Their practice, now in its 41st year, is focused on a) Making built environment

more sustainable & contextual; (b) Minimizing the use of mechanical system for

human comfort in the buildings, (c) Conserving the cultural heritage of India; and

(d) Maximizing the use of traditional materials, technologies, processes, crafts

and crafts persons in contemporary Greenfield architectural & interior projects, to

ensure the revival and survival of Traditional Knowledge and Wisdom of India..

We would appreciate receipt of confirmation on successfully downloading and

reviewing the attachment.

Should you require any further details, kindly revert to the undersigned at the

earliest.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Thank you,

With regards,

Shreya Nanavati

for Parul Zaveri

for Abhikram

Abhikram Amrit-Lila Bungalow Behind Stavya Spine Research Center, Off Nagri Hospital Road Near Gujarat College Ahmedabad 380006, India. Tel:+91-79-2642.0622 Fax:+91-79-2644.0187 E-mail:abhikram@abhikram.com Works Link:www.abhikram.com/brochure.pdf

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Dated: 12th June 2020

From: Raja Singh, Research Scholar, Department of Architecture, School of

Planning and Architecture, New Delhi.

To: Gaurav Shorey, Founder Member, Swaraj, New Delhi.

Copy to:

Prof. Dr. Anil Dewan, Research Supervisor and Professor, Department of

Architecture, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi for kind

consideration and reference.

Subject: Project participation

Dear Shri Gaurav Shorey ji,

I am really grateful for your long standing encouragement and support to me. You

have been a great pillar of support in providing me mentorship in the Green

Building Industry and also including me into the Swaraj project in the core team

on an honorary basis for a very long time.

It is noted that 'to participate/ make a presentation in a Seminar/ Workshop/

Conference, etc., one needs to take permission from the competent authority' in

the internal system of the college. This being a 'project' which can be of academic

interest and can contribute in my research in the form of exposure to the various

rural environs can be helpful. I am therefore copying this mail to Prof. Dr. Anil

Dewan who is my research supervisor and shall be glad to encourage me to be

part of this project.

Additionally i am glad that the project is not an employment part time or full time

and is only an honorary position of an 'Expert' entails me only to the 'costs

towards your travel, board and lodging shall be covered by the project. A modest

honorarium towards your professional time shall also be paid.' This is in line with

the Ordinance No. II of the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) regulation-2018 which

currently governs me as a Full Time Research Scholar at School of Planning and

Architecture, New Delhi.

I will quote the provision as it is: '8.4: A scholar who has been awarded

Fellowship/Contingency Grant by the School shall devote his entire time to

doctoral research and shall not engage himself in full-time or part-time

professional practice or employment with public or private institutions or

organisations'

Since the period starts from April 2021 till March 2023 and the total time

duration would be 15 days in three years in total, this would not constitute as

employment and would be suitable to accept.

Thanks and warm regards,

Raja Singh

Dear Gaurav, Thank you for inviting me to be a member of your research team for the UNESCO-IFCD Grant Proposal, and I gladly accept. In this lockdown (with one confirmed case of SARS-Cov-2 infection in one of my office mates) I am unable to send this mail officially on my letterhead, so I hope e-mail will suffice for now. I am Indian, an Architect, my name is Sanjay Prakash, and my short CV is attached with this letter of consent. I can speak and listen and read and understand English and Hindi fluently, and I am a practicing architect with a B/ Arch. degree. Since I have vast experience of having worked in the Lok Jumbish project partly funded by SIDA from 1992 to 1998 (described in the attached paper), I suppose you would find me most useful in getting the village youth together and organize them for charrettes, discussions, and to explain and interpret their local culture and background in a way that is communicable to the outside world. As a long-time practitioner of sustainability, I imagine my views on the sustainability of their cultural practices and working on transforming these practices into business plans could also be of some benefit to your team.

I will be quite free to travel and join the team next financial year, when the project starts. Let me know the next steps. With warm regards,

Sanjay Prakash

Principal Consultant | sp@sanjayprakash.co.in

41, First Floor, Zamrudpur Community Center, Kailash Colony Extension, New Delhi-110048, India. Tel : +91 11 4563 3125 | www.shift.org.in | spa@sanjayprakash.co.in