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'''Niranjan Das Gulhati''' was an Indian civil engineer, water resources consultant and writer, known for his mediation in the [[Indus Waters Treaty]] of 1960 between India and Pakistan.<ref name="Misra2010">{{cite book|author=A. Misra|title=India-Pakistan: Coming to Terms|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yk7JAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA63|date=19 July 2010|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US|isbn=978-0-230-10978-0|pages=63–}}</ref> His contributions were reported in the formation of the [[International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage]] (ICID),<ref name="ABOUT N.D. GULHATI">{{cite web | url=http://www.icid.org/about_ndg.html | title=ABOUT N.D. GULHATI | publisher=International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage }}</ref> a non governmental organization which promotes transfer of water sharing technologies between countries.<ref name="ABOUT ICID">{{cite web | url=http://www.icid.org/about_icid.html | title=ABOUT ICID | publisher=International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage | date=2016 | access-date=7 July 2016}}</ref> An Alumnus of the Thomason College of Engineering (present-day [[Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee]]), he was associated with the [[World Bank]], [[International Development Association]] and [[United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific]].<ref name="The Untiring Indian">{{cite web | url=http://www.iitdalumni.com/news/untiring-indian | title=The Untiring Indian | publisher=IIT Roorkee | date=2016 | access-date=7 July 2016}}</ref> He was the author of two books, ''Indus Waters Treaty: An Exercise in International Mediation''<ref name="Gulhati1973">{{cite book|author=Niranjan Das Gulhati|title=Indus Waters Treaty: An Exercise in International Mediation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RuwlAAAAMAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Allied Publishers}}</ref> and ''Data Of High Dams In India''.<ref name="Data Of High Dams In India">{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/DataOfHighDamsInIndiaVolI | title=Data Of High Dams In India | author=Niranjan Das Gulhati | year=2016}}</ref> The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Bhushan]], in 1961, for his contributions to society.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2016 | access-date=3 January 2016}}</ref> His life story has been documented in a book, ''The Untiring Indian - Lifestory of Mr. N. D. Gulhati - A Visionary Water Resources Engineer'', published in 2011.<ref name="The Untiring Indian - Lifestory of Mr. N. D. Gulhati - A Visionary Water Resources Engineer">{{cite book | url=https://www.amazon.in/Untiring-Indian-Lifestory-Visionary-Resources/dp/B00726VD9C | title=The Untiring Indian - Lifestory of Mr. N. D. Gulhati - A Visionary Water Resources Engineer | publisher=Macmillan Publishers India | author=Shashi K. Gulhati | year=2011 | isbn=978-0230331181}}</ref> The International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage has instituted an annual oration, ''N.D. Gulhati Memorial Lecture for International Cooperation in Irrigation and Drainage'' in his honor.<ref name="N.D. Gulhati Memorial Lecture for International Cooperation in Irrigation and Drainage">{{cite web | url=http://www.icid.org/awards_nd.html | title=N.D. Gulhati Memorial Lecture for International Cooperation in Irrigation and Drainage | publisher=International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage | date=2016 | access-date=7 July 2016}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Indus Waters Treaty]]
* [[International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage]]
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{cite book | title=Gulhati on WorldCat | publisher=WorldCat | date=2016 |oclc = 254924991}}

== Further reading ==
* {{cite web | url=http://www.icid.org/nd_gulhati_2014.pdf | title=9th N D Gulhati Memorial Lecture for International Cooperation in Irrigation and Drainage | publisher=22nd International Congress on Irrigation and Drainage | work=Lecture by Jeremiah R.D. Lengoasa | date=September 2014 | access-date=7 July 2016}}

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