Acknowledgements
This book is a product of cooperation and contribution of several people. We the
editors of this book jointly show our gratitude towards the people who knowingly or
unknowingly provided inputs, during the conceptualization of this book. We are
thankful to Ms. Raman Shukla and Dr. Mamata Kapila from Springer who first
approached us with the proposal for the book and helped us crystallize our ideas on
the topic. Afterwards, Mr. Lenold Christ Raj, Mr. Ashok Kumar and Ms. Aakanksha
Tyagi took over and provided excellent support with all the administrative work. We
also thank all the authors who kindly agreed to provide the chapters and worked with
us throughout the process. We are also grateful to the reviewers who took time out of
their busy schedule and critically reviewed the chapters of this book and provided
very valuable suggestions for their improvements. This book is a labour of love for
us since we spent a lot of our weekends and free time working on it. For this reason
alone, our families deserved to be thanked for bearing with us all this while. Anoop
Singh likes to thank Dr. Shekhar C. Mande, Secretary, Department of Scientific and
Industrial Research (DSIR); Shri K.R. Vaidheeswaran, Joint Secretary, DSIR and
Shri B. N. Sarkar, Scientist-G, DSIR for encouragement and the Administration of
DSIR, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India for their support.
Shaili Srivastava is thankful to Dr. Ashok Kumar Chauhan (Founder President
Amity Education Group); Dr. Aseem Chauhan [Chancellor of Amity University
Haryana (AUH)]; Prof (Dr) P. B Sharma (V.C, AUH), Prof (Dr) Padmakali Banerjee
(Pro-VC, AUH) for vision, enlightenment and encouragement and colleagues of
Amity University, Haryana for their help and support. Dheeraj Rathore would like to
thank Professor R.S. Dubey, Honourable Vice-Chancellor, Central University of
Gujarat, India for the continuous encouragement. Deepak Pant is grateful to his
colleagues and management at VITO for enriching discussions and fruitful ideas
leading to such endeavours.
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This book is a product of cooperation and contribution of several people. We the
editors of this book jointly show our gratitude towards the people who knowingly or
unknowingly provided inputs, during the conceptualization of this book. We are
thankful to Ms. Raman Shukla and Dr. Mamata Kapila from Springer who first
approached us with the proposal for the book and helped us crystallize our ideas on
the topic. Afterwards, Mr. Lenold Christ Raj, Mr. Ashok Kumar and Ms. Aakanksha
Tyagi took over and provided excellent support with all the administrative work. We
also thank all the authors who kindly agreed to provide the chapters and worked with
us throughout the process. We are also grateful to the reviewers who took time out of
their busy schedule and critically reviewed the chapters of this book and provided
very valuable suggestions for their improvements. This book is a labour of love for
us since we spent a lot of our weekends and free time working on it. For this reason
alone, our families deserved to be thanked for bearing with us all this while. Anoop
Singh likes to thank Dr. Shekhar C. Mande, Secretary, Department of Scientific and
Industrial Research (DSIR); Shri K.R. Vaidheeswaran, Joint Secretary, DSIR and
Shri B. N. Sarkar, Scientist-G, DSIR for encouragement and the Administration of
DSIR, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India for their support.
Shaili Srivastava is thankful to Dr. Ashok Kumar Chauhan (Founder President
Amity Education Group); Dr. Aseem Chauhan [Chancellor of Amity University
Haryana (AUH)]; Prof (Dr) P. B Sharma (V.C, AUH), Prof (Dr) Padmakali Banerjee
(Pro-VC, AUH) for vision, enlightenment and encouragement and colleagues of
Amity University, Haryana for their help and support. Dheeraj Rathore would like to
thank Professor R.S. Dubey, Honourable Vice-Chancellor, Central University of
Gujarat, India for the continuous encouragement. Deepak Pant is grateful to his
colleagues and management at VITO for enriching discussions and fruitful ideas
leading to such endeavours.
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