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Prof. R.C. Sharma headed important Museums of the country like Government Museum, Mathura; State Museum, Lucknow; Indian Museum,, Kolkata and finally, the Natioinal Museum, New Delhi as the Director-General and Vice-Chancellor, National Museum Institute. He also served the Banaras Hindu University as the Director, Bharat Kala Bhavan and Professor of Indian art and Museology. Presently, he is the Honorary Director / Acharya of Jnana-Pravaha – Centre for Cultural Studies, Varanasi. Beside authoring several books and editing journals and bulletins in the field of Early Indian Art, he has contributed a large number of papers published in the journals in India and abroad.

A.K. Bhattacharya is an Indian Forest Service officer of 1983 batch from Madhya Pradesh cadre. He is presently an Associate Professor and Conservator of Forests in Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal, an autonomous organisation under the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. Dr. Bhattacharya is Post Doctoral in Environmental Sciences and has contributed a large number of articles in national and international journals on a range of topics related to forestry and environment. Also, he has to his credit a book on 'Kandhar Plane Hijack', based on his own experience as a hostage. His main contrbitutions to the field of eco-tourism include organising capacity building workshops and training courses for the local authorities of various concerned departments, communities and NGOs, extending professional support to the State Government for promotion of eco-tourism, supervising research works on eco-tourism related topics, and preparing Eco-tourism Management Plans for few protected areas.

Suhas Kumar, is an Indian Forest Service Officer of 1980 batch and belongs to Madhya Pradesh cadre. Besides other assignments, he served as head of faculty of Wildlife education and Extension, Wildlife Institute of Indian, Dehradun. Presently he is posted as Chief Conservator of Forests in the office of the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife), M.P. Bhopal.

J.J. Dutta, joined the Forest service in M.P. in 1948-50 bath of the Indian Forest College, Dehradun. A keen wildlifer he was chosen for Colombo Plan training in Canada in 1966. In 1977 he became Chief Wildlifer Warden, M.. and in the next six years he developed an extensive system of National Parks (11) and sanctuaries (31) in the State, along with establishing an independent Wildlife Wing in the Forest department. he was awarded the Raja Jitendra Malik Gold Medal of the Zoological Society of India in 1982, in acknowledge of his work in conservation of wildlife. he retired in October 1984, as Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, M.P.