The Guru

Shri Mata Prasad has more than 50 years of experience in the fields of electric power systems protection, extra high voltage and high voltage DC systems, power plants and SVC. He received his B. Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from BHU Varanasi. He was responsible for the development of the first 400 kV system, as well as the first SVC, the first HVDC bulk power transmission and the first HVDC asynchronous link in India.

He has also worked in Sweden, the UK and France and has been an active member of many professional organizations, achieving the status of Distinguished Member of CIGRE and Senior Member of IEEE, and a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Engineering.

For his accomplishments and contributions he has received many national and international awards, such as the CBIP Golden Jubilee Award. the CIGRE Technical Committee Award and the CEA Silver Jubilee Celebrations Award. He has authored and presented more than 115 papers at many conferences around the world. More