Mr. Rinchen Nopu Bhutia

Details of Employment:

Education:

Current Area of Research:

• Ichthyofaunal diversity, biology and stock assessment for management and conservation of coastal resources.
• Biotic (plankton) and abiotic (Soil & water quality) parameter of coastal water bodies
• Potentials of small indigenous fish culture in enhancing farm profitability
• Integrated farming in land shaping models
• Effect of salinity on growth and physiology of fishes

Research Projects:

Ongoing (In-house): 2

• Assessment of Ichthyofaunal diversity, biology and stock assessment of selected species along the estuary of Sundarbans. (NRMACSSRISIL202101301034) – Principal Investigator (2021-2024)
• Enhancing the production potential and profitability of ponds through integration of small indigenous fishes in coastal region of West Bengal. (NRMACSSRISIL202300101066) – Principal Investigator (2023-2026)

Ongoing (Externally Funded): 2

• Climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies for salt affected soils. (Phase-II) (NRMACSSRICOP201500400880) – Co-Principal Investigator (2023-2024)
• Securing the Asian mega-deltas from sea-level rise, flooding, salinization and water insecurity (CGIAR-Funded) – Co-Principal Investigator (2022-2025)

Particulars of prizes/medals/scholarships in academic field

• Qualified ICAR’s National Eligibility Test in the discipline Fisheries Resource Management, conducted by ASRB in May, 2018
• ICAR- Fellowship for M.F.Sc
• Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship(RGNF) for PhD programme

Training Attended: (2) –Recent

• National level online training program on “Statistical data analysis using R software” organized by department of agricultural statistics, Sarat Chandra Sinha College of Agriculture (SCSCA), Assam Agricultural University, Dhubri, Assam in collaboration with Jorhat extension center of NIELIT Guwahati from 04-01-2021 to 11-01-2021
• 21 days national training course (NTC 2021) : On recent advances in fisheries & aquaculture technology for sustainable rural development” from 18th May to & 7th June through online mode, organised by West Bengal University of Animal & Fishery Sciences (WBUAFS) Kolkata (West Bengal) & National Agriculture Development Cooperative Ltd (NADCL) Baramulla (UT of J & K)

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Professional recognition:

List of publications

Research paper:

• Bhutia, R.N., Hari, M.S., Srinivasan, N.T., Deshmukhe, G., Ramteke, K., Bhushan, S. and Landge, A.T., 2019. Stock structure of small indigenous and near threatened Ailia coila (Hamilton, 1822) from Ganga and Brahmaputra river systems. Journal of Entomology and zoology Studies, 7(3), pp.1600-1605.
• Bhutia, R.N., Srinivasan, N.T., Deshmukhe, G., Ramteke, K., Bhushan, S. and Landge, A.T., 2019. Morphometric differentiation of Ailia coila (Hamilton, 1822) populations inhabiting in selected stretches of Ganga and Brahmaputra riverine system. Journal of Experimental Zoology India, 22(2).
• Pathak, V., Bhutia, R.N., Chennuri, S., Kumar, R., Bhushan, S., Deshmukhe, G. and Jaiswar, A.K., 2022. Dharamtar estuary: Unexplored ichthyofaunal diversity, a thrust area for diversity conservation. Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences (IJMS), 51(11), pp.891-899
• Pathak, V., Lal, D.M., Bhutia, R.N., Chennuri, S., Bhushan, S., Deshmukhe, G. And Jaiswar, A., 2021. First Record of Freshwater Invasive Catfish, Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822) in Dharamtar Estuary, West Coast of India. Journal of the Indian Society of Coastal Agricultural Research, 39(1), 86-92.
• SriHari, M., Bhutia, R.N., Kathirvelpandian, A., Sharma, R., Ramteke, K.K., Sreekanth, G.B. and Abidi, Z.J., 2019. Differentiation in morphometric traits of Chanos chanos stocks along the Indian coast.
• Vikas Pathak, Rinchen N. Bhutia, Shashi Bhushan, Geetanjali Deshmukhe, A.K. Jaiswar., Discrimination of Five Gobid Species (Family: Gobiidae) based on Otolith Morphometry. Indian Journal of Animal Research (Accepted)

Book chapter: 1

Number of Popular Article published: 5

Number of conference/symposia/Webinar attended: 12