 He served as a professor and Head of the Gujarati Department at Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University from 1988 to 2017.He has also served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Vice-Chancellor of the same university.He was convener of Gujarati language at Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi from 2008 to 2012, and has again been appointed as convener at the same national institution for 2018 to 2022.