President RTI Club Uttarakhand
Dr. B.P. Maithani, President RTI Club Uttarakhand has strong academic, administrative and social credentials with varied experience of working in both the government and non government institutions in different capacities and geographies. He started his career as a researcher with the Center for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) New Delhi in 1966. From there he migrated to social work field to work with the Border Area Coordination Committee of seven national level Gandhian institutions headed by Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan. He again switched over to social science research at Gandhian Institute of Studies Varanasi and then to teaching at Govt. Post Graduate College Pithoragarh in1972. Subsequently he joined National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD) Hyderabad in 1979 as Deputy Director and soon became founding Director NIRD`s north - east India Center Guwahati in 1983 which post he held for thirteen years. He also worked with Council for Advancement of Peoples Action and Rural Technology (CAPART) as Member Convener on deputation for five years and retired as Prof&Diretor, NIRD Hyderabad in 2003. After retirement he joined Institute of Applied Manpower Planning New Delhi as Sr. Consultant and in 2005 he was appointed State Coordinator RTI Task Force and OSD Administrative Reforms Commission by Uttarakhand Govt. He has been actively involved in many consultancy projects especially on agriculture and rural development.

Dr. Maithani has 10 books and scores of research reports and articles on micro planning, agriculture, rural development, human resource development etc to his credit. He is currently based in Dehradun and is a member of Policy Planning Group of Uttarakhand Government and also member Board of Governors, Uttarakhand Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj.