Early Years
Shukla was born in 1944 in the village of Mirdha in the Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh, India. He passed from the S.R.S. High School, Sheopur, in the first class with distinction in Mathematics and Sanskrit. He studied science, firstly outside school, then at S.C. College, Ballia. At Banaras Hindu University, at the age of 18, he passed BS (honors) with Physics, Mathematics, and Geology (first class) followed by an MS in Geophysics in 1964 and PhD in Geophysics in 1971. He subsequently gained an ScD in Meteorology from MIT in 1976.
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