Coordinator of NSS, in Solapur University since its inception and till 2012,he has worked with his NSS student volunteers, doing commendable work for water conservation. Under the ‘Shramadaan’ scheme of the NSS, his team of students has dug a CCT, made two reservoirs and planted and nurtured more than 2 lakh trees over 100 acres of University land, and have thus have raised the water table of drought-ridden Solapur. Conferred the ‘Kirloskar Vasundhara Mitra’ Award.