Dr. Anil Prakash Joshi: The Mountain Man
Dr. Anil Prakash Joshi is born in a middle-class family and hails from a small town Kotdwar of Uttarakhand. He did M.Sc., Ph.D. in Botany and became a reader in P.G. College. He was involved in social service since beginning of his career as teacher. His commitments for social service were so deep that he left his lucrative job for social cause in 1992.
His works revolves around resource-based economy. Local economy and ecology can only grow when it is local resource based has been his vision. He connected local market, local wisdom with new S&T and local resource to affect the same. His work’s popular slogan ‘local need meets locally’ is pervasive now as many development agencies including Govt. and Non-Government are following the same. He formed a voluntary organization HESCO in 1979 and registered the same in 1983 to take his work further.
Dr. Joshi has served in various positions
- Member of Disaster Management and Research Committee (DMRC)
- Expert member: Biotechnology Promotion Committee Programme.
- Executive Council member of National Institute of Rural development (NIRD), government of India.
- Fellow National Academy of Science.
- Member of Indian Society for Forester.
- Fellow of Indian Botanical Society.
- National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI)
- Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CIMAP)