Dr. M. C. Bansal was born on January 30, 1946 at Meerut. He had his entire education in Roorkee till B. E. (Chemical) which he passed from University of  Roorkee in the year 1967. After completing his M. E. Chemical from Indian Institute of Sciences, Banglore, he joined Department of Chemical engineering in the University of Roorkee, as Lecturer, in July 1969. He obtained his Ph. D from University of Roorkee in the year 1978 on studies of Reforming Reactions with Catalyst Deactivation in Tubular Reactors. 

In January 1981 he joined the post of Assistant Professor in the Institute of Paper Technology, Saharanpur, which was functioning as an academic department of the then University of roorkee and now that of IIT Roorkee. Since March 1998, he continued at the post of Professor (Pulp & Paper / Chemical Engineering) at this department.
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From June 1, 1988 to May 30, 1991 he was Director of the Institute of Paper Technology for a tenure of three years. He was editor-in-chief of IPPTA Journal for three years and is currently Editorial-Advisor of the Same. He has been working on many paper industry related problems, and has coordinated two important projects assigned to the Institute by the Network for Industrial Environmental Management (NIEM) of United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) on Utilization of Agri-residues in small paper mills. He has guided many M.E. and Ph.D. scholars, and has published and presented 33 research papers. He has been actively participating in many HRD programmes / workshops / seminars from time to time and has coordinated many of them for National and International agencies. He is a member of many important National Committees in the field of Pulp and Paper. Considering his wide experience in teaching, research and administration, he was again made the head of department (earlier IPT) from September 1997 to December 2000 for his second tenure, which he had completed very successfully. He has visited many countries during this period, in connection with his research amd academic responsibilities.
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Dr. Bansal is greatly interested in many social activities and was president of Lions Club Saharanpur, he is an active member of Bharat Vikas Parishad and many other social organizations in Saharanpur. He was actively associated in getting the Saraswati Temple constructed at the Saharanpur campus of IIT Roorkee.
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