Dr. Misra has been one of the earliest persons in the country to realize the importance of the reliability engineering in the national context and he has been active in the area of reliability engineering since 1967 and had been making efforts to popularize reliability and safety concepts in India by delivering special lectures and conducting short term courses and in-house training programmes for the Indian industries, organizations and educational institutions.  In 1976, Prof. Misra was invited by the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, New Delhi to serve as the convener of the NCST working group on Reliability Engineering in India. This group submitted two reports (part I & part II) in 1978 on the Reliability Implementation Program for India. He also served as member of Task Force Committee on Reliability Engineering of the Department of Science & Technology, in 1979.

Due to Professor Misra's efforts, a master’s degree program in Reliability Engineering (REC) was conceptualized and started for the first time in India at IIT, Kharagpur in 1982 which is still continuing and is quite popular. It was mainly, as a result of his efforts, the Reliability Engineering Centre was established in 1983 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development Project, Government of India, New Delhi. Prof. Misra has been the founder Head of Reliability Engineering Centre (REC). The REC is the first of its kind, in any educational institution, in the country, to promote training, research and consultancy in the area of Reliability Engineering. Several post graduate students trained at this centre are contributing   to several prestigious projects of the country, such as LCA, nuclear, missile and space Programmes.  Therefore, it is natural that one book on Reliability Engineering authored by his former student Dr. E. Balagurusamy (Ex-Vice-Chancellor, Anna University and Member of UPSC, New Delhi) was dedicated to him for his pioneering work in India in the area of Reliability Engineering. Also the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunications, IETE (India), awarded him the first  Lal C. Verman Award in 1983 for his outstanding contributions and pioneering work in Reliability Engineering in the country. In fact, in 1995, a plaque in recognition of his meritorious and outstanding  contributions to Reliability Engineering and furthering of Reliability Engineering Education and Development in India, was awarded by  the IEEE Reliability Engineering Society, USA.