Shiv Prasad Kosta

Kosta was born 25 April 1931 in Garha, a part of Sanskardhani in Jabalpur. He belonged to a poverty stuck family of a farmer. While talking about his early education, Kosta Sir has completed his primary, middle, secondary and higher secondary education from Government Technical High School Kala Niketan. Kosta passed his High School Technical Examination from Government Technical High School Jabalpur in 1952 and joined Government Science College (formerly known as Robertson College), where he obtained M.Sc. in Physics and Electronics from Sagar University of M.P in 1958.

Kosta started with his professional career as a research assistant in 1958 by joining Ministry of Education in New Delhi through UPSC. In the year 1962, he travelled to Germany and received scholarship from Indo-Germany exchange to deliver his services and explore technological skills in Stuttgart and Munich. Here, he worked as development engineer for a period of about one year, from 1961 to 1962. He proceeded with his work as engineer in Andrew Corporation of Chicago from 1962 to 1963. In 1964, Kosta joined National Physics Laboratory of India in New Delhi as junior scientist and worked for a period of 3 months. After this, September 1964, he delivered his skills as Senior Scientist and Officer in CEERI (Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute) of Pilani in Rajasthan.

In 1971 Kosta joined as Principal Technical Officer and Deputy Director of first Indian Satellite Project Aryabhata (satellite) in [RO. Later on, he was promoted as Group Director of ISRO Satellite Centre in Bangalore and contributed his skills and ideas for Remote Sensing Satellites and application satellite projects, as Communication Satellite, Bhaskara (satellite) and Ariane Passenger Payload Experiment.[2] Furthermore, starting from 1981 to 1987, Kosta delivered his services in headquarters of ISRO located in Bangalore. During the entire career of Kosta in ISRO, he got the opportunity for working as team with large numbers of countrywide and international scientists, including the scientist-cum-former president Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.

After successful accomplishment of various projects under ISRO, Kosta was the Director in Department of Electronics, now Department of Electronics and Information Technology Government of India from 1987 to 1990. In 1990, he took the position of Vice Chancellor of Jabalpur University of M.P Government. Kosta worked in University until 1994 and then joined as Director General of M.M. Vedic University Jabalpur (M.P.). He made contributions to Vedic University up to year 2000. Currently, Kosta works under two institutions i.e. Director in Shri Ram Institute of Technology in Jabalpur and Chief Technical Advisor in Sagar Group of Institutes in Bhopal[3] and Charotar University of Science & Technology in Changa, Gujarat.

Kosta has remained the author of about 10 different books published in Hindi on different ISRO Projects, books on various Indian satellites, like Ariane Passenger Payload Experiment, Bhaskara (satellite)[4] and Aryabhata (satellite).[5] In addition, he was the author of famous books on Communication Satellite and SLV3. Lastly, his publication will include the first Rocket launched by Dr. Kalam.[6]

During the research work, Kosta guided large numbers for M. Tech. and Ph.D. degrees. Three of his bright students have gained the opportunity to serve as Principal in Electronics Department under Rani Durgavati University.