Right from the beginning of my professional career, I have been associated with some laboratory either in industry or in educational institution . These are HV testing laboratory at Universal Cables, Satna (1966) and Kabelwerk Oberspree, Berlin (1967-68). During my Ph.D. work at TU Dresden, Germany, worked in their HV and heavy current laboratories (1969-73). Also developed R & D and testing facilities at Raghvendra Industrial Research Foundation, Rajpura (Punjab) during 1978.

A sophisticated HV laboratory planned, designed, erected and commissioned by me, has come up at IIT Kanpur during last two decades. The three major sources of high voltage in this laboratory are Partial Discharge (PD) free 100 kV, 50 kVA , ac testing transformer, 500 kV , 4.4 kJ Impulse Generator having facility to produce lightning as well as switching surges, and 400kV dc test set to produce either polarity dc voltages .This indoor laboratory has a huge outdoor bay where all the three types of test voltages are made available to work through a wall –bushing. A number of instruments like PD detector, Schering Bridge for tan, Insulation Resistance meter (Mega Ohm meter), Guardring Capacitor for liquid dielectrics and Pressure Vessel for vacuum and gaseous dielectrics facilitate a variety of measurements on solid , liquid and gaseous dielectrics. This has emerged as a unique HV laboratory facility in northern India and it is effectively utilized for education, research and industrial testing purposes.

My R & D contributions have been on the detection and evaluation of Partial Discharges, effects of dynamic short circuit forces in power cables, life expectancy of power cables, suitability and product development of polymer cables especially for nuclear power plants, EMI due to corona, HV performance of vacuum insulation, ambient plasma state of air, performance of atmospheric air in different field configurations with ac, dc, lightning and switching voltages, lightning, & ball lightning phenomena and lightning protection .