R.N. Saxena, Ph.D., Former Professor, Department of Applied Geology, Barkatullah University, Bhopal. After serving for 22 years in Government Motilal Vigyan Mahavidyalaya, Bhopal, he joined as Reader in the Department of Applied Geology at Bhopal University. During his tenure as a faculty member from 1963 to 1998, he had the distinction of guiding 15 students for the award of Ph.D. degree in various branches of Geology including Groundwater. He had contributed about 100 research papers which were either published in National journals or were abstracted in National seminar volumes. He was honoured with the National Excellence Award on 56th Independence Day.