Civil Engineer
Name : Rajendra Karki
Permanent Address: Simpani, Pokhara-1, Nepal
Mailing Address : Group of Rural Infrastructure Development, Nepal
Contact: 01-5546859, Ph:- 98400-51047 (personal)
E-mail : rajendrakarki2000@yahoo.com , rajendrakarki007@gmail.com
Qualification Summary
I have twelve years of working experience on many rural infrastructure development projects mainly on ‘Community Based Water Supply and Sanitation’ projects’, ‘School Building and School Toilet’ construction projects including ‘Micro-Hydro Electric Power Generation’, ‘Micro & Mini Irrigation’ projects with community development activities. Computer skills MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-Access, MS-DOS, AutoCAD 2007, Visual Basic for Application, Visual Basic, SW-WSP,C-programming with other relevant software. Typing skills is English/Nepali 40-45 words/minute.
Hardware Work (Civil Engineering Work)
Survey, Design, Cost-Estimate report preparation and Implementation work of 10 community based gravity flow water supply projects and one ‘Micro-Hydro’ under the program ‘Rural Village Water Resources Management Project’ Dailekh (a bilateral program of Nepal and Finland Government)
- Conducted the ‘Preliminary Survey’ of 20 Micro-hydro power projects of Sindhuli district through GREAT Nepal Consultant, Lalitpur.
- Survey, Design, Cost-Estimate report preparation and Implementation work of 15 community based gravity flow water supply projects under the program of ‘Nepal Water for Health’ (NEWAH-Mid Western Regional Office Nepalgunj)
- Survey, Design, Cost-Estimate report preparation and Implementation work of 30 community based gravity flow water supply projects under the program of ‘Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Support Program’ (RWSSSP-III in short; a program funded by FINNIDA) in Arghakhanchi district.
- Survey, Design, Cost-Estimate report preparation and Implementation work of 8 rainwater harvesting projects with 1100nos. of rainwater collection jars under the program of RWSSSP-III in Arghakhanchi district.
- Survey, Design, Cost-Estimate report preparation and Implementation work of 8 community based gravity flow water supply projects under the program of ‘Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Fund Development Board’ (RWSSFDB in short in IInd, IIIrd, & IVth batch) in Arghakhanchi district through the support organization Rural Development Center (an Arghakhanchi based NGO)
- Survey, Design, Cost-Estimate report preparation and Implementation work of 10 community based gravity flow water supply projects under the program of Plan Nepal, Makawanpur Program through the support organization RADO-Nepal (a Makawanpur based NGO)
- Survey, Design, Cost-Estimate report preparation and Implementation of 1 lifting cum gravity water supply project under the program of Plan Nepal, Makawanpur Program through the support organization of RADO-Nepal.
- Prepared “Infrastructure Development Master Plan” of five VDCs of Achham district under the program of Participatory District Development Program (PDDP in short; a program funded by UNDP)
- Survey, Design, Cost-Estimate report preparation and Implementation of 14 community based gravity flow water supply projects under the program of PDDP in Achham district.
- Survey, Design, Cost-Estimation report preparation 2 Micro-Hydro power project namely Chafamandu and Dhamali Micro-Hydro projects in Achham district under the program of PDDP.
- Constructed 10 High-Tension line tower foundation work of Kaligandaki-A Hydroelectric Project in Syanjha and Palpa district through Himalayan Construction Company.
- Survey, Design, Cost-Estimation report preparation and Implementation of 5 micro-irrigation projects in Achham district under the program of PDDP.
- Survey, Design, Cost-Estimation report preparation and construction supervision of 21 School Building and 12 School Toilet construction projects through the RADO-Nepal under the financial support of Plan Nepal, Makawanpur Program Unit.
Software Work/Training Facilitated
Conducted 2 events of ‘RWH-Mistri’ trainings as main resource person of duration 15 days, participants from different rain water harvesting schemes of Makawanpur district of the program Plan Nepal, Makawanpur through RADO-Nepal Makawanpur Program.
- Planned and conducted one event of ‘RWH Mistri’ trainings of duration 15 days, participants from different water supply schemes of Dailekh, Darchula and Achham district of the program RVWRMP.
- Planned and conducted 2 events of ‘Village Maintenance Worker’ trainings of duration 30 days, participants from different water supply schemes of Arghakhanchi & Gulmi district under the program of RWSSSP-III.
- Planned and conducted 1 event of ‘Mistri of 6.5m3 Rainwater Collection Jar’ training of duration 15 days, participants from different water supply schemes of Arghakhanchi district under the program of RWSSSP-III.
- Planned and conducted 1 event of 15 days training on ‘Lime Incrustation in Pipe of Gravity Water Supply Schemes and mitigation measures’ training to Village Maintenance Workers in Arghakhanchi district under the program of RWSSSP-III.
- Planned and conducted 3 events of ‘Village Maintenance Worker’ trainings of duration 10 days, participants from different water supply schemes under the program of RWSSFDB in Arghakhanchi district.
- Planned and conducted several of water users’ committees’.
- Pre-construction
- During construction
- Post construction
- Gender & Development and Social Inclusion
- Health and Sanitation Education
- Mobilized the water user’s committee to complete the projects in time
- Promoted the women’s group and assisted them to operate ‘saving and credit’ and ‘income generating activities’.
Professional Experience
- Technical Officer, ‘Group of Engineers for Appropriate Technology’ (GREAT Nepal), Pulchowk Lalitpur- February 2009 to present.
- Technical Facilitator, Rural Village Water Resource Management Program (RVWRMP-Dailkeh)- April 2008 to February 2009.
- Technical Supervisor, Nepal Water for Health (NEWAH), Nepalgunj – February 2006 to February 2008.
- Senior-Overseer, Rural Awareness and Development Organization (RADO-Nepal, for Plan Nepal, Makawanpur Program), Hetauda – January 2005 to January 2006
- Overseer, Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Support Program (RWSSSP-III in short, a program jointly funded by Finish Government and Nepal Government), March 2004-December 2005.
- Overseer cum Technical Supervisor, Rural Development Center (RUDEC in short, for RWSSSP-IIII & RWSSFDB work), Arghakhanchi district – September 2000-Feburary 2004
- Overseer, Himalayan Construction Company (for Kaligandaki-A hydro-electric work), Dharan – August 1999-September 2000.
- Overseer, Participatory District Development Program (PDDP in short; a program funded by UNDP) in Achham district – August 1997-August 1999.
Education and Trainings
- S.L.C. from Saraswoti High School ,Kaski, 1990
- Diploma in Civil Engineering from Tribhuvan University ,1994
- BBS from Bhairahawa Multiple Campus, Siddhartha Nagar, Tribhuvan University, 2008.
- BE from Nepal Engineering College-Center for Advanced Studies (nec-CFAS), Pokhara University (1st year running).
- ‘Design of Community Based Water Supply Scheme’ at Chitwan of duration 10 days organized by RWSSFDB and supported by DEVTEC consultant.
- ‘Computer Aided Design and Drafting of Community Based Water Supply Schemes’ training of duration 5 days at Butwal November 5th to 9th 2005, organized by RWSSSP-III.
- ‘Social Mobilization’ training of duration 10 days at Nepalgunj organized by PDDP in Chaitra 11 to Chaitra 20, 254.
- ‘Micro-Hydro Survey’ training on duration 7 days at Achham organized by REDP in 4th Jan. 1999 to 11th Jan. 1999.
- ‘Gender and Development’ training of duration 5 days at Kathmandu organized by PDDP and supported by DIDI-BAHINI in August 1999.
- ‘Gender and Social Inclusion in NEWAH’s Intervening Program and Future Direction Workshop’ organized by NEWAH in 3 to 5 January 2007.
- ‘Appreciative Inquiry’ training organized by NEWAH 29th Dec. 2006 to 2nd Jan. 2007 (5days) and Facilitated by ‘Laliguransh Community Development Center, Pokhara’ in Nepalgunj.
- ‘Monitoring and Evaluation’ training organized by NEWAH 1-3 February 2007 in Nepalgunj.
- ‘Urban out of School Program’ organized by ‘Action Program Towards Child Labor Free Area in Pokhara Valley’ of duration 15 days 26 December 1999 to 10 Jan. 2000.
- ‘Risk Management Training’ organized by ‘Risk Management Office’, duration 3 days 7-9 March of 2006 at Nepalgunj.
- ‘Water Quality Testing’ training organized by ‘NEWAH-MWRO’, 3 days 10-12 october 2007, Nepalgunj.
- ‘Database Programming (MS-Access & MS- Visual Basic 6.0)’ training organized by ‘NEWAH’, 6 months, May 2007 to October 2007.
Additional Skills and Achievements:
- Developed ‘Cost-Estimation Program of School Building’; Excel based code written in VBA, extensively used by RADO-Nepal, Makawanpur.
- Developed ‘Costing Package’ of Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Program, containing 7 (seven) components in one package (MS-Excel based, Code written in VBA & VB) – currently using by NEWAH in project’s cost-estimate report preparations. components included are:
- Gravity flow water systems
- Rain Water Harvesting Systems
- 2 m3 capacity
- 6.5m3 Capacity RWJ
- School toilets
- Hills Type
- Terai Type
- Household latrines
- Hills Type
- Terai Type
- ‘Data Analysis – Baseline Survey’ computer Package for NEWAH (spreadsheet program), extensively using by NEWAH for its intended purpose.
- Valid license of motorbike
- Management and administration skills.
Reference:
Kumar Silwal
Regional Manager,
Nepal Water for Health (NEWAH), Eastern Regional Office, Biratnagar
Ph: 98520-26950
Ram Bdr. KC.
Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor
Rural Village Water Resource Management Project, Dhangadi
Ph: 97411-24419
