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After completing his M.Sc. in Physics with Electronics in 1964, he joined Sri Ram Institute for Industrial Research, University Road, Delhi and worked on Moisture measurement and its control in textile processing. For a brief period of three months he also worked as Junior Scientific Officer at Aviation Research Centre, New Delhi.
In August 1966 he joined as Lecturer of Physics at St. John’s College Agra and taught Physics to B.Sc. and M.Sc. Students.
In 1968 he joined the Division of Agricultural Physics at Indian Agricultural Research Institute New Delhi, as Assistant Physicist (Instruments).
In 1971, he was appointed as Maintenance Engineer (Instruments) in the Division of Soil Science of the same Institute. During this period he repaired a large number of instruments used for soil/water testing and agricultural research.
Here he also started a course entitled “Instrumental Methods of Analysis” which became very popular course for M.Sc. and Ph.D. students of IARI. He was also responsible for establishing a Central Instrument Laboratory at this Division. Here he was also involved in the project on Biogas Technology and was Principal Investigator of ICAR Coordinated Project on Renewable Energy Sources from 1987 to 2001.
He visited Moscow , Leningrad and Odessa of the erstwhile
USSR in 1983 under Indo-USSR Exchange program. In 1985 he was
sent for training on Mass Spectrometer to U.K. He visited
Vietnam under UNESCO assignment on Teachers Training on
Laboratory Instruments in 1987.
In 1993 a new
Division of Environmental Sciences was established at IARI and
he was one of the founder members of this division. He was also
Professor of this new Division from 1994 and later worked as
Head from 1997 till his retirement. During this period he has
guided 3 M.Sc. and 9 Ph.D. students. Emission of Greenhouse
Gases (methane and Nitrous Oxide) from agricultural sources and
their contribution to the Global Warming. During the research
project of UNDP-IRRI on methane emission from rice fields, he
has visited Philippines, Indonesia, China, Thailand etc. His
work on methane emission from rice fields is cited in many
international Journals. He has published about 100 research
papers in national and international journals. He received Best
Teacher’s Award for the year 2000 at IARI. In 1998,under AHRD
project sponsored by World Bank , he visited University of
California , Riverside and LA, Rice University in Texas and
University of North
Hampshire at Durham and exchanged his work on climate change with the
scientists at these universities. He had an opportunity to meet
and discuss with Prof. Rowland Sherwood, Noble Prize Winner in
Chemistry 1995.
In 2001 he took
voluntary retirement and established Career XL Services to serve
University of Leeds,
Leeds, UK
up to September session. The major responsibilities were
recruitment of students to the various Undergraduate and
Postgraduate courses of the University and to promote the brand
name of the University
of Leeds
Seminars, Counseling / Interview sessions were organized at
major cities like Mumbai, Ahemdabad, Baroda, Kolkata, Patna ,
Lucknow, Jaipur, Bhopal, Indore etc, besides regular counseling
at their office at Barakhamba Road New Delhi. Lot of counseling
was done at British Council offices all over India.
Dr. M.C. Jain
Director Career XL Services then joined Rai Foundation as
Educational Consultant & Dean in the School of Engineering &
Applied Sciences. During his stay there he helped in
establishing relations with University of Northumbria
of the Uk and Edexcel. During this period HND courses in various subjects
were also started at Rai Foundation. He was also deeply involved
in the recruitment of students for SEAS and has attended various
Education fairs organized by Education Times, Assochem, Career
Launchers, HT Horizon etc.
In 2003 he
joined an NATCOM Project on Climate Change at National Physical
Laboratory New Delhi as a Guest Scientist under the leadership
of Prof. A.P. Mitra. In the same year he also wrote two chapters
in the Book on Environment and Agriculture for Indira Gandhi
National Open University (IGNOU). In 2004 he also formulated a
training programme on Agri-electronics for the Department of
Electronics (Govt. of India). Even now he regularly undertakes
guest lectures at IARI New Delhi, TERI New Delhi, Central
Fertilizer Laboratory, Faridabad , PDM
Engineering College
Bahadur Garh etc.
From July 2005,
Dr. Jain has focused his attention on Study Abroad Consultancy
under the umbrella of Career XL Services in addition to his
other academic and research activities.
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