The current composition of the Coastal Aquaculture Authority is as
follows:
Dr.Justice A K Rajan, Chairman.
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Dr Justice A K Rajan was born on 25
January 1943 in Silukkuvarpatti Village, Dindigul District,
Tamil Nadu. He obtained the degree of Bachelor of Science
(Physics) from Madras Christian College, Tambaram in 1965;
Bachelor of Law from Madras Law College in 1968 and Master of
Law (Constitutional Law and International Law) from the
University of Madras in 1974.
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He practiced Law before the High Court of Judicature at Madras
from 1968 and also served as part-time Junior Professor in
Madras Law College from 1976 till he was directly appointed as
District and Sessions Judge in 1987. After heading the
judiciary in various districts such as Dindigul, Trichy,
Sivagangai and Madurai, he was deputed as Law Secretary to the Government of
Tamil Nadu from 1996 to 1999. As Law Secretary, Justice Rajan
drafted many important bills; some of them were first of its
kind, which later became Law. When serving as District and
Sessions Judge, Salem, he was elevated as Judge of the Madras
High Court, in September 2000. Justice Rajan retired in
January 2005.
Justice Rajan is the Chairman of the Coastal Aquaculture
Authority since on 06 January 2006.
He was conferred with the Honorary
Doctorate in Law by the University of Madras in its 150th
Annual Convocation held in November 2007.
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Dr A G Ponniah, Member (expert in the field of coastal aquaculture).
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Dr AG Ponnaiah joined as Director, CIBA on
26 April 2006. He holds a masters degree in Marine Biology
from Annamalai University and Ph.D in Zoology from Madurai
Kamaraj University. He joined the Central Marine Fisheries
Research Institute, Cochin as Scientist (S-1) in August 1978.
In October 1988, he joined the National Bureau of Fish Genetic
Resources (NBFGR) at Lucknow. Dr Ponnaiah served as Acting
Director of NBFGR from October 1996 and was appointed as
regular Director of the Bureau in February 1997.
In December 2001, he joined the World Fish Centre (WFC) at
Penang, Malaysia as Programme |
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Leader of the Biodiversity and Genetic Resources
Research Programme and later served as the Discipline Director
of Aquaculture and Genetic Programme at the WFC and also the
Coordinator of International Network of Genetics in
Aquaculture. Dr Ponnaiah specializes in genetic
characterization, gene banking, fish germplasm conservation
and aquaculture.
Dr Ponniah is a member of the Coastal Aquaculture Authority
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Shri P Madeswaran, Member
(expert in the field of coastal ecology and nominated by the
Ministry of Earth Sciences (former Department of Ocean Development),
Government of India
Dr A Senthilvel, Member (expert in the field of
environment protection and nominated by the Ministry of Environment
and Forests, Government of India).
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Dr Senthilvel is a member of the Coastal
Aquaculture Authority since 13 December 2006. |
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