Shirish Sinha

Name: Shirish Sinha

Married

Date/place of birth: 27 June 1973, Guwahati, India

E-mail: shirish.sinha@gmail.com

Address: Flat # 4224, B – 5&6,

Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110 070, India

Phone: +91-11-2612 1062

General information

Shirish Sinha did his Masters in Rural Management from the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) in 1995. He is at present a Ph D student in the department, and his Ph D thesis links the issue of energy poverty with energy sector policies especially in the context of energy sector reforms in India on access to modern energy carriers in rural areas. The thesis (tentatively titled: Alleviating or Aggravating Energy Poverty?) is a policy research in the field of energy and development. Ph D study involved case studies in three regions in India (Gosaba island, Sundarbans in West Bengal; Bastar in Chattisgarh; and Kalahandi in Orissa).

Shirish has received two fellowships to support his Ph D. He received Joint Japan World Bank Graduate Scholarship for 1999-2001. He then received WOTRO Developing Country Fellowship from WOTRO for 2001-03.

Shirish has over ten years of research experience in the field of energy and rural development. Shirish is at present completing his term as Researcher, Water – Energy, with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) at their South Asia Regional Office in India. He has been associated with IWMI since 2003, first as a Visiting Research Scholar and then as a full time Researcher. His research is on water – energy nexus in rural areas of India.

Shirish started his career with the Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) in 1995 as a Research Associate. His research included work on energy policy, rural energy planning, socio-economic impact assessment of rural energy interventions, renewable energy technologies including institutional options for commercialisation.

Shirish has published fifteen papers, of which two have been published in refereed journal; four books including one training manual, seven articles, and fifteen research reports.

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Books/Documents:

B R Sharma and S Sinha (eds.). 2005. Creating Synergy between Groundwater Research and Management. New Delhi: IWMI

Sinha S, A Shukla and N Hazarika. 1998. From Sunlight to Electricity: Solar Photovoltaic Applications. New Delhi: TERI.

TERI/WIP. 2000. Financing Solar Energy in India. Manuscript, under the PV Credit Mobilization project, Thermie-B, European Commission. Munich: WIP/TERI.

Papers:

Sinha S, B R Sharma, P Narayana, A Kishore. 2005. Comparative Analysis of Water-Energy nexus in four States of India. IWMI Working Paper (forthcoming)

Sinha S, B R Sharma, C Scott. 2005. Understand and managing the water-energy nexus: moving beyond energy debate, in eds. B R Sharma and S Sinha, Creating Synergy between Groundwater Research and Management. (forthcoming)

Sinha S, P Narayana, Ahsan U Ahmed, C Scott. 2004. Energy Water Nexus – Community institution models: a co-management solution. IWMI-Tata Water Policy Program, Annual Partners’ Meet 2004. (full paper available from www.iwmi.org/iwmi-tata)

Sinha S. 2003. Energy sector reforms and rural energy – will the rural poor benefit? The 2003 Open Meeting, Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, (paper available at http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/openmeeting/)

Sinha S. 2003. Tare Tare Kiss: the story of a tribal women’s self-help group’s struggle to get electricity in their village. Energy for Sustainable Development, Vol VII (3): 30-32, September 2003

Sinha S, J S Clancy, Nico G Schulte Nordholt. 2003. Reaching the unreached: Energy sector reforms policy in India – will the rural poor benefit? Faces of Poverty. AGIDS, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam: 340-357.

Sinha S, J S Clancy, Nico G Schulte Nordholt. 2003. Energy sector reforms and rural energy access in India – the emerging issues. [in eds. K Deb and L Srivastava] Transitions towards Sustainable Development in South Asia, TERI, New Delhi: 43-60

Sinha S. 2001. The rural photovoltaic market in India. [in eds. J Gupta, J Vlasblom and C Kroeze] An Asian Dillema. Report No. E-01/04. Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije University: Amsterdam

Sinha S, A Shukla, A Mirza. 2000. Lighting in Sundarbans – from Dhibri to Solar Photovoltaic. [In eds. Banerjee R, Nayak J K, and Fernandes B G] Renewable Energy Technology for the New Millennium. pp 373–379. New Delhi: Allied Publishers.

Maithel S, P Malhotra, R Prasad, D Singh, A Kumar, A Shukla and S Sinha. 1999. Power generation from renewables in Ladakh: status and prospects. [In eds. R L Sawhney, D Buddhi and R P Gautam] Renewable Energies and Energy Efficiency for Sustainable Development. Indore: India.

Sinha S and D Singh. 1999. Energy education and capacity building of NGOs: TERI's experiences. [In ed. Anil Misra] Renewable energy education: current scenario and future projections. Proceedings of Sixth ISREE symposium. pp: 120-132. New Delhi: TERI. 1999. pp 381

Sinha C S, S Sinha, and V Joshi. 1998. Energy use in the rural areas of India: setting up a rural energy database. [In] Biomass and Bioenergy. Vol. 14, No.5/6. pp 489-503.

Sinha S and P Venkata Ramana. 1997. Market Development of Solar Home Systems: Experience in the state of Gujarat. [In ed. Dilawar Singh] Renewable Energy for Village Electrification. Proceedings of the International Conference and Exhibition on Village Electrification. pp: 598-607. New Delhi: Goldline Publishers.

Sinha S, D Singh, N Hazarika. 1997. Application of Geographic Information System (GIS) in decentralized energy planning. [In eds. P V Ramana and S N Srinivas] Biomass Energy Systems. Proceedings of International Conference on Biomass Energy Systems. pp: 125-137.New Delhi: TERI.