Dr Mihir Shah
Distinguished Professor & Chairperson School of Humanities and Social Sciences
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Email: mihir.shah@snu.edu.in
Prof. Mihir Shah, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Rural Management Program, School of Humanities and Social Sciences. From 2009 to 2014, Dr Mihir Shah was a Member of the Planning Commission, Government of India, holding the portfolios of Water Resources, Rural Development, and Panchayati Raj. He...
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Prof. Mihir Shah, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Rural Management Program, School of Humanities and Social Sciences. From 2009 to 2014, Dr Mihir Shah was a Member of the Planning Commission, Government of India, holding the portfolios of Water Resources, Rural Development, and Panchayati Raj. He is the youngest ever Member of the Planning Commission. Dr Shah was chiefly responsible for drafting the paradigm shift in the management of water resources enunciated in the 12th Five Year Plan. He also initiated a makeover of MGNREGA, the largest employment program in human history, with a renewed emphasis on rural livelihoods based on construction of productive assets. From 2019 to 2021, he chaired the Government of India's Committee to draft the new National Water Policy. This is the first time ever that a person from outside government was asked to chair this committee. Dr Shah graduated in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, (where he won the prestigious KC Nag Economics Prize) and did his post-graduation from the Delhi School of Economics (where he was Merit Scholar) in the 1970s, before going on to complete a much-acclaimed doctoral dissertation at the Centre for Development Studies, Kerala. After teaching for some years at the Centre, he resigned to explore fresh terrains beyond the ivory towers of conventional academia, which culminated in 1990 in the formation of Samaj Pragati Sahayog (SPS). Inspired by the life and work of Baba Amte, SPS is today one of the largest grass-roots initiatives for water and livelihood security, working with its partners on a million acres of land across 72 of India's most backward districts. Dr Shah spent nearly three decades living and working in central tribal India, forging a new paradigm of inclusive and sustainable development. Dr Shah was the first President of the Bharat Rural Livelihoods Foundation (2013-19), which supports innovative civil society action in close partnership with state governments. He was the first Chair of the Revitalising Rainfed Areas (RRA) Network (2014-18) and the National Coalition for Natural Farming (NCNF) (2021-26). He is a Founding Signatory of the Geneva Actions on Human Water Security, 2017. He was a Member of the International Steering Committee of the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) from 2012 to 2018. His research has been published extensively in pre-eminent journals such as Economic and Political Weekly, Current Science, Ambio, Hydrogeology Journal, Journal of Hydrology, Contributions to Indian Sociology, Review of Development and Change, International Journal of Rural Management, Seminar and Indian Journal of Labour Economics. Dr. Shah has addressed audiences on his life's work all over the world from Stanford University to the World Bank in Washington, the OECD in Paris, the Arctic Circle in Iceland, Chatham House and University College, London and University of Cambridge, England, UNESCO-IHE, Delft, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, the EAT Forum, Stockholm, Rachel Carson Centre, Munich, Himalayan University Consortium, Chengdu, China, International Water Management Institute, Colombo, the Asian Development Bank, Manila, the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok and the Singapore Water Week. He was the Keynote Speaker at the Global Water Summit at Rome in 2012 and the International EcoSummit Congress at Montpellier in 2016.
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Irradiation-driven phase dynamics and surface property evolution in Ni–Si Co-sputtered thin films under swift heavy ion irradiation
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Shah, K.; Maity, G.; Patajoshi, S.; Singh, F.; Sulania, I.; Gupta, M.; Kanjilal, A.; Pandey, R.; Dubey, S. | Applied Surface Science, 719 | 2026 | 0 |
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Design of an improved model using federated learning and LSTM autoencoders for secure and transparent blockchain network transactions
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Vijay Anand, R.; Magesh, G.; Alagiri, I.; Guru Brahmam, M.G.; Balusamy, B.; Selvan, C.P.; Alshahrani, H.M.; Getahun, M.; Soufiene, B.O. | Scientific Reports, 15(1) | 2025 | 4 |
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Nonradiative Energy Transfer between CsPbBr3 Nanoplatelets and AgInS2 Quantum Dots
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Samanta, S.; Shah, S.H.; Bora, E.; Debnath, T. | Inorganic Chemistry, 64(22), 11177-11183 | 2025 | 0 |
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Hits and misses: water-based climate change adaptation interventions for agriculture in South Asia
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N R, L.; Shah, R.; Srinivasan, V.; Mukherji, A. | Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 30(3) | 2025 | 3 |
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Social and Spiritual Transformation An Imperative Complementarity
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Shah, M. | Economic and Political Weekly, 59(4), 37-46 | 2024 | 0 |
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Policy and practice informed by the ancient science of spirituality
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Shah, M. | Applied Spirituality and Sustainable Development Policy, 11-40 | 2023 | 1 |
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Terpenoid phytocompounds from mangrove plant Xylocarpus moluccensis as possible inhibitors against SARS-CoV-2: In silico strategy
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Lokhande, K.B.; Kale, A.; Shahakar, B.; Shrivastava, A.; Nawani, N.; Venkateswara Swamy, K.V.; Singh, A.; Pawar, S.V. | Computational Biology and Chemistry, 106 | 2023 | 12 |
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'Towards a More Prosperous and Plentiful Kerala' A Green Model of Development for the 21st Century
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Shah, M. | Economic and Political Weekly, 57(53), 47-54 | 2022 | 0 |
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Characterization and Expression Profiling of KRTAP9.2 at Different Developmental Stages of Pashmina Fiber in Changthangi Goat
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Bhat, N.A.; Iqbal, Z.; Mir, S.S.; Bhat, B.A.; Ayaz, A.; Bhat, Z.F.; Shah, R.A.; Ganai, N.A.; Andrabi, S.M.; Bhat, H.F. | Indian Journal of Animal Research, 56(10), 1214-1220 | 2022 | 1 |
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Argumentation by Misrepresentation
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Shah, M.; Vijayshankar, P.S. | Economic and Political Weekly, 57(15), 69-72 | 2022 | 0 |
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Dismantling Barriers to Upscaling Agro-ecological Farming in India
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Shah, M. | Ecology, Economy and Society, 5(1), 31-62 | 2022 | 10 |
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Synthesis of highly sensitive nanomaterial for ultra-fast photocatalytic activity: A detailed study on photocatalytic capabilities of rod-shaped TiS3 nanostructures
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Singh, J.; Sharma, P.; Tripathi, N.; Shishkina, D.; Rymzhina, A.; Boltov, E.A.; Platonov, V.; Pavelyev, V.; Volkov, V.S.; Arsenin, A.V.; Singh, R.; Soni, R.K.; Talib, M.; Manzoor, S.; Banerjee, D.; Hasan, P.M.Z.; Alshahrie, A.; Darwesh, R.; Anikina, M.A.; Mishra, P. | Catalysis Communications, 162 | 2022 | 15 |
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Stepping Into the Next Decade of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing: UbiComp and ISWC 2021
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Majethia, R.; Ghosh, S.; Nolasco, H.R.; Shahid, F.; Viswanath, V.; Shehu, I.S.; Zhao, Y. | IEEE Pervasive Computing, 21(2), 87-99 | 2022 | 1 |
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Satb2 acts as a gatekeeper for major developmental transitions during early vertebrate embryogenesis
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Pradhan, S.J.; Reddy, P.C.; Smutny, M.; Sharma, A.; Sako, K.; Oak, M.S.; Shah, R.; Pal, M.; Deshpande, O.; Dsilva, G.; Tang, Y.; Mishra, R.; Deshpande, G.; Giraldez, A.J.; Sonawane, M.; Heisenberg, C.-P.; Galande, S. | Nature Communications, 12(1) | 2021 | 9 |
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Review Open access
AIE-featured tetraphenylethylene nanoarchitectures in biomedical application: Bioimaging, drug delivery and disease treatment
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Sharath Kumar, K.S.; Girish, Y.R.; Ashrafizadeh, M.; Mirzaei, S.; Rakesh, K.P.; Hossein Gholami, M.; Zabolian, A.; Hushmandi, K.; Orive, G.; Kadumudi, F.B.; Dolatshahi -Pirouz, A.; Thakur, V.K.; Zarrabi, A.; Makvandi, P.; S. Rangappa, K.S. | Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 447 | 2021 | 115 |
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Encapsulation of plant biocontrol bacteria with alginate as a main polymer material
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Saberi-Riseh, R.S.; Skorik, Y.A.; Thakur, V.K.; Moradi-Pour, M.M.; Tamanadar, E.; Shahidi-Noghabi, S.S. | International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22(20) | 2021 | 177 |
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Water and agricultural transformation in India: A symbiotic relationship—II
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Shah, M.; Vijayshankar, P.S.; Harris, F. | Economic and Political Weekly, 56(30), 46-51 | 2021 | 5 |
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Water and agricultural transformation in India: A symbiotic relationship-I
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Shah, M.; Vijayshankar, P.S.; Harris, F. | Economic and Political Weekly, 56(29), 43-55 | 2021 | 25 |
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Review
Reading k n raj in the age of free market fundamentalism
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Shah, M. | Economic and Political Weekly, 56(14), 33-38 | 2021 | 1 |
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Comparative transcriptome analysis of mammary epithelial cells at different stages of lactation reveals wide differences in gene expression and pathways regulating milk synthesis between Jersey and Kashmiri cattle
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Bhat, S.A.; Andrabi, S.M.; Ibeagha-Awemu, E.M.; Bhat, B.; Dar, M.A.; Mumtaz, P.T.; Shah, R.A.; Ganai, N.A. | PLoS ONE, 14(2) | 2019 | 53 |
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Crafting a Paradigm Shift in Water
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Shah, M. | Springer Water, 341-368 | 2019 | 2 |
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Evaluating the fabric performance and antibacterial properties of 3-D piezoelectric spacer fabric
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Vatansever Bayramol, D.; Soin, N.; Dubey, A.; Upadhyay, R.; Priyadarshini, R.; Sinha Roy, S.; Shah, T.H.; Anand, S.C. | Journal of the Textile Institute, 109(12), 1613-1619 | 2018 | 4 |
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TM-Aligner: Multiple sequence alignment tool for transmembrane proteins with reduced time and improved accuracy
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Bhat, B.; Ganai, N.A.; Andrabi, S.M.; Shah, R.A.; Singh, A. | Scientific Reports, 7(1) | 2017 | 24 |
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Editorial
For a science-based transformation of water policy
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Shah, M. | Current Science, 112(1), 7-8 | 2017 | 1 |
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Should India do away with the MGNREGA?
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Shah, M. | Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 59(1), 125-153 | 2016 | 9 |
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Model-free predictive control of nonlinear processes based on reinforcement learning
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Shah, H.; Gopal, M. | IFAC-PapersOnLine, 49(1), 89-94 | 2016 | 34 |
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Neural networks with online sequential learning ability for a reinforcement learning algorithm
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Shah, H.; Gopal, M. | Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 27(VOL 1), 87-99 | 2014 | 0 |
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A reinforcement learning algorithm with evolving fuzzy neural networks
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Shah, H.; Gopal, M. | IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline), 3(PART 1), 1161-1165 | 2014 | 5 |
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