Dr. Rajan Aggarwal working as Principal Scientist, Department of Soil and Water Engineering, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. He was bestowed Prof. Manjeet S. Chinnan Distinguished Professor Chair Award and also awarded Gold Medal-2017 by Soil Conservation Society of India. Previously he remains head of the department of Soil and Water Engineering (2015-19). He is also Chief Scientist of AICRP on “Irrigation Water Management” and Principal Investigator of projects entitled “Punjab: Pilot Implementation of Direct Benefit Transfer for Electricity (DBTE) to Agriculture” and “Use of Big Data Analytics for Adapting Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources”. He has already completed eleven research projects as PI/Co-PI/Collaborator on Groundwater Resource Management to Mitigate the Impact of Climate Change in Punjab and Haryana, Promotion of Micro irrigation, District Irrigation Plans, Decision support system for enhancing water productivity, Soil and water management in high intensive cropping regions, Farmers Participatory Research Programme etc. The research on groundwater modeling, rainwater harvesting, climate change, pump testing and drip irrigation has proved to be beneficial for water resource management of the State. He has designed and installed more than 200 recharge structures for rainwater harvesting, agricultural runoff and surplus canal water at different sites in the state. He has more than 230 publications in international/national journals, popular articles, book chapters etc. authored a book entitle “Fundamentals of Groundwater and Drainage Engineering”. Dr. Aggarwal is associated with National Board of Accreditation as Expert Member, Department of Science and technology as Expert Member of the committee on “Sustainable agriculture and Rural Transformation Holistic Initiative (SARTHI), State level Ground water Coordination (SGWCC) for coordination and implementation of National Project on Aquifer Management (NAQUIM), and District Irrigation Plan under PMSKY. He has guided several M.Tech and Ph.D students for their research. He has done extensive extension work in KVK Bahowal for Soil and water conservation.