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I am Hem Nath Ghimire, from NEPAL. Presently, I am pursuing my doctoral course in Rock Mechanics at the Rock Mechanics Laboratory of Hokkaido University, Japan.
I was born and brought up in Pustun Village (presently known as Bahundanda) in Lamjung District, western NEPAL.
After my preliminary education at Chandrodaya School, I received full scholarship in district level selection to study in Budhanilkantha School, Kathmandu from class four. I passed the SLC (School Leaving Certificate) exams in 1983 and got admitted to Amrit Campus (popularly known as ASCOL) for my Intermediate in Science. After my ISc, I received Colombo Plan scholarship for my BE in Mining Engineering at Bengal Engineering College (deemed university), Shibpur, West Bengal, India. After completing my BE (Mining) in 1991, I joined the HMG (Nepal) service as a Mining Engineer and was deputed at Department of Mines and Geology (DMG), Kathmandu.
I worked for about five years at DMG till I received scholarship at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand and went there in September 1996 for my masters in Geotechnical Engineering. After graduation in Aril 1998 from AIT, I joined Leo Jovian Thai Engineering Company Limited in Bangkok and was involved in the instrumentation part of the Hua Lamphong - Sam Yam section of the MRTA (subway) project and worked until August 2000. In the mean time I received the Monbukagakusho scholarship (Japanese Government scholarship) for my doctoral course in Rock Mechanics in Hokkaido University, Sapporo in the newly established English Graduate Program for Socio-Environmental Engineering (EGPSEE) and came to Japan in October 2000.
I married Lila in February 1992. She was born in Besisahar, Lamjung and brought up in Sarda Nagar, Chitwan. She completed her school in Sarda Nagar and joined Birendra Campus, Bharatpur for her Intermediate course. We are gifted with two sons, Shaurav and Gaurab. Shaurav was born on 26th November 1994 and Gaurab on 5th December 1998.
Hem
Lila
Shaurav
Gaurab
For comments and suggestions, please write to: hemghimire@hotmail.com