ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I would like to acknowledge the contributions of many people who helped make this dissertation possible: I wish to express my profound sense of gratitude and indebtedness to my guide Dr.R.K.Jarial for their invaluable guidance, inspiration and constant encouragement throughout the course of this work. I want to express my sincere thanks to my teachers Dr. Y.R.Sood, Dr. A.K.Chandel and Sh.O. P. Rahi, and whose courses have made my stay at NIT Hamirpur a wonderful learning experience. I want to express my gratitude of my wife Dr. Nuzhat Fatema, my brother Er. Khushi Mohammad and heart loving friend Amit Kumar Yadav for their whole-hearted cooperation and great encouragement in my research. I would like to thanks entire staff of TIFAC CORE Lab of NIT Hamirpur, for helping me and providing me the various tests which come from H.P.S.E.B substation transformers for diagnostics. I sincerely thank my class mates, who made my stay at NIT a memorable experience in my life. I would like to thanks my friends for giving me support and guiding through out my academic career. Finally, I would like to express my thanks to all those who have helped me directly or indirectly in the progress and completion of work.

Date: Place: NIT Hamirpur (H.P.)

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