Professor Chary is the Director at the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI). He leads the Center for Urban Governance, Environment, Energy and Infrastructure Development, which is recognized as a ‘Center of Excellence’ by the Government of India. He provides the strategic guidance for its advisory, consulting, research and capacity development program, and the 80-member team of faculty, consultants, advisors, and research associates. He is an urban environmental planner and public health engineer with over two decades of experience in water and environmental sanitation. He is the team lead for implementing citywide inclusive sanitation and fecal sludge and septage management in A.P and Telangana States in India, covering 240 towns.

His current area of interest includes provision of safe sanitation through non-sewer sanitation and fecal sludge management in Indian cities. Having earlier been part of a task force drafting the National Urban Sanitation Policy and the National Fecal Sludge and Septage Management Policy, he now anchors the Technology Task Force to curate and disseminate standards, guidelines, and related resources on prevention of hazardous operations in sanitation, improving workers’ safety and non-sewered sanitation.