Dr. Srivastava (58), is a known institution builder, sound academician, honest, dedicated and strict administrator. He has credit of building a national law university of repute at Raipur (C.G.) with best infrastructure in the country and a postgraduate teaching & research centre of law at Barakatullah University, Bhopal (M.P.). His association with various academic & non-academic institutions as Vice Chancellor, Professor, Head, Dean, Member of Executive Councils, Board of Studies, Academic Council etc., has benefited those institutions remarkably.

He started his career as an advocate in Uttar Pradesh but due to his academic interest he opted teaching as a career at University of Allahabad and Bhopal. Due to long experience and wide exposure he was nominated by different search committees for appointment of Vice chancellors for Hidayatullah National Law University Raipur, University of Bikaner, Open University Bilaspur and Rajasthan Technical University of Kota etc.

He was nominated by a number of International institutions like The Hague Academy of international law, British Council, American Centre, U.N.D.P., Cardiff Law School, Wales for Various purposes. He widely travelled premier institutions of world, signed MOUs, Exchange Programmes and Research collaborations. Among them were Osgood Law School, York University, University of Calgary, University of Ottawa & the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law in Canada, George Washington University, George Town University and Columbia University and the Supreme Court of United States of America. As a partner in the EPLC-POROS Project of European Union he visited Athens, Greece. He participated in the British Council International Programme at Belfast, Northern Ireland (U.K.). He has contributed a lot in the field of Law and Management.