Bimal Kumar Srivastava is a 1968 B.Tech. degree holder in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur, and is having specialization in Aeronautical Engineering in Aircraft Navigation & Operations Group, and also in Avionics Group from the Aeronautical society of India.

Mr. Srivastava, who has got about 36 years of aviation experience to his credit, began his career in Civil Aviation Department (Govt. of India) in 1970 as Assistant Aerodrome Officer and worked at Mumbai Airport in Air Traffic Controls for about seven years. Thereafter, he joined there as Air Safety Officer (Engineering), and hence was associated with a number of cases of aircraft accident investigations including the crash of Kanishka aircraft of Air India in June 1985. Subsequently, he worked as Deputy Director (Cartography) at the Headquarters of Airports Authority of India, New Delhi. Mr. Srivastava then moved to work as Airport Director at Guwahati, Pune, and Hyderabad Airports. He retired in July 2006 from the Corporate Headquarters of Airports Authority of India, New Delhi as General Manager (Cartography).

Apart from almost all the areas of India, Mr. Srivastava has visited a number of other Places/Countries like Nepal, Bangkok & Pataya (Thailand), Kualalumpur, Beijing, Nairobi,  Dubai, Paro & Thimpu (Bhutan), Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Paris, Kenya, Austria, Jakarta, New York etc. 

 He has written a number of books on aviation in Hindi and English and received many awards including Dr MN Saha awards from Min of Science & Technology. He has also written more than 600 articles so far on Science, Aviation, Environment, Tourism and other topics, which are regularly appearing in various Hindi and English journals & magazines and in different newspapers.