1. Name: Dr. Jit Narayan Sah
2. Position: Assistant Professor
3. Appointed Subject: Chemistry and Forest Products
Utilization
4. Department: Forest Products and Engineering

Contact Address
E-mail: jitnarayan2008@gmail.com or jitnarayan2002@yahoo.com
Mobile No.: +977-9846027615

Education
 Ph.D. in Forestry (Chemistry of Forest Products), Forest
Research Institute University (FRIU), Dehra Dun,
Uttarakhand, India
 One year Post Graduate Diploma Course in Wood
Science and Technology, Forest Research Institute (FRI),
Deemed University, Dehra Dun, India
 Master of Science in Chemistry (Specialization: Organic Chemistry), L.N. M.
University, India

 Interest Area:Forest Products Utilization, NTFP/Medicinal Chemistry, Chemistry of

Forest Products, Phyto-chemistry, Natural Products,Community Forestry, Wood Science
and Technology and Bio-energy.

Chairman :Basic Science and Humanities Subject Committee, Institute of Forestry, Pokhara,Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Course Coordinator: Bio-energy (M. Sc. Forestry)

Head : Student Wealfare, IOFPC, Pokhara

Research and Publications:
 Sah, J. N., Varshney, V. K.and Dutta,I. C. (2015). "HPTLC assisted evaluation of
picrosides content in the Accessions of Picrorhizakurrooagrown at different
altitude in Nepal”. The Natural Products Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1
 Sharma, R. P., Timilsina, Y. P. and Sah, J. N.(2014).“Physiographic condition for
potential Non-timber forest products in metamorphic terrain”: An analytical study
from Nagi community forest, Myagdi district, Nepal. Annals of Forestry, An
International Journal of Science 22(1), 1-11.
 Sharma, R. P., Timilsina, Y. P. and Sah, J. N. (2014).“Medicinal and Aromatic
Plants: Listing, Altitudinal Distribution and its Impact on Socio-Economic
Condition of Chepang Communities, Chitwan District”, Nepal. eJournal of
Applied Forest Ecology (eJAFE),Vol.2(1), 45-54.
 Sah, J. N. and Varshney, V. K. (2013). “Chemical constituents from genus
Picrorhiza-a review” American Journal of Essential Oil and Natural Products
(AJOENP), 1(2): 22-37.
 Ranjan R, Sangwan R. S., Siwach S. S., Sangwan, O., Nancee, Sah, M. and Sah,
J. N.(2012).“Heritability and genetic advance in Asiatic cotton
(Gossypiumarboreum L) genotypes”. Symposium papers “Global Cotton
Production Technologies vis-a-vis Climate Change” Book of Paper. 202-204.
 Choudhry, G. and Sah, J. N. (2004). "Use of Bamboo in a Rural house of
Reinforcement Concrete" in the "Fourth Royal of National Conference on Science
and Technology”, Proceedings of IV National Conference on Science and
Technology (NAST), Lalitpur, Nepal, March 24-26, 1427-1433.