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• Mr S K
Bhattacharya, Member representing the State of West Bengal
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Shri D
Radhakrishna Reddy, Member representing the State of Andhra Pradesh.
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Shri D
Radhakrishna Reddy hails from farming community. He holds a
degree in Arts from Sri Venkateswara University and studied
law in V R Law College, Nellore. He was Sarpanch of the Gram
Panchayat, Mypad and Vice President of the Panchayat Samithi,
Indukurpet having 60 Gram Panchayats during the eighties. He
also served as President, Mandal Parishad, Indukurpet from
2001 to 2004. During this period he undertook several
development activities in the area and also worked for the
upliftment of the rural poor, particularly the fisher
community. He was appointed as Member of the Food Corporation
of India in 2001 for a term of 2 years.
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Shri Reddy
was elected as President of the Nellore District Prawn Farmers
Welfare Association in 1997 and in 2003 as President of the
Andhra Pradesh State Prawn Farmers Welfare Association and is
continuing in the posts. During 2004, he visited China and
Thailand under a Technical Cooperation Programme of the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations along with
the officials of the Government of Andhra Pradesh for studying
the latest technology in shrimp culture.
Shri Radhakrishna Reddy is a member of the Coastal Aquaculture
Authority since 22 December 2005.
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Shri
Ajitsinha B Patil, Member representing the State of Maharashtra.
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Shri
Ajitsinha Bajirao Patil hails from a farmer community in
Marathwada region of Maharashtra. He is a graduate in
Mechanical Engineering from Karnataka University and a
postgraduate in Mechanical Engineering from Mumbai University.
He started his career as a design engineer with an automobile
manufacturer. Before joining the field of aquaculture in 1990,
he worked as a full time social worker for a few years. He was
Managing Director of Pancham Aquaculture Farms Ltd., Mumbai, a
joint sector company in Maharashtra, for about 14 years. At
present, in addition to his other assignments, he looks after
all the technical matters including R & D activities at
Pancham.
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Shri Patil
took a months training in aquaculture at Taiwan Fisheries
Research Institute, Keeling, Taiwan in 1994. He has
extensively traveled to Mainland China, Thailand, Singapore,
Philippines, Malaysia and Hong Kong to study aquaculture. He
is chairman of the Maharashtra Aquaculture Farmers’
Association since its inception and also a member on the
Management Committee of the Central Institute of Brackish
water Aquaculture, Chennai.
Shri Patil is a member of the Coastal Aquaculture Authority
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• Dr R
Paul Raj, Member Secretary appointed by the Central
Government
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Dr. R. Paul
Raj was appointed as Member Secretary of the Coastal
Aquaculture Authority by the Central Government and took
charge on 1st May 2008. He holds a Master’s Degree in Marine
Biology from Annamalai University and Ph.D. Degree in Marine
Biology from the University of Madras. He has over 31 years
of experience in the Agricultural Research Service of the
Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ARS, 1976) and
worked as Scientist S-1 at the Central Inland Fisheries
Research Institute, Senior Scientist (Associate Professor)
at the Centre of Advanced Studies in Mariculture (CMFRI),
Scientist-in-Charge of the Madras Research Centre of CMFRI,
Principal Scientist and Head of the Divisions of Physiology,
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Assessment, and Head of the Post-Graduate Programmes at CMFRI, Kochi. He
also served as Member Secretary of the Research Advisory
Committee and Chairman of the Consultancy Processing Cell at
CMFRI, and Member in the Management Committees of CMFRI and
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He has also served as Member in the
Academic Council of the Central Institute of Fisheries
Education, Mumbai, Member of the Board of Studies in Mariculture (CIFE), Board of Studies in Aquaculture (
University of Madras), Board of Studies in Fisheries (
Kerala Agricultural University), and Member of the Marine
and Inland Fisheries Advisory Board ( Govt. of Tamil Nadu).
He has substantial contributions to Aquaculture in the
Country through his research, teaching and field-outreach
programmes. He has guided 15 Ph.D. students (9 as Major
Advisor and 6 as Co-Chairman). He has published more than
100 research and technical papers including a Hand Book on
Aquaculture Feed published by the MPEDA during 1993 and
Reprinted during 1995 and 1997. He has Directed Four
Summer/Winter Schools at CMFRI in the Areas of Aquaculture
Nutrition, Disease Management, and Marine Biotechnology. He
was the Co-ordinator of the 8th Asian Fisheries Forum, the
greatest Fisheries Event held in India at Kochi during
November 2007. By his inspiring leadership he has mentored
many of his colleagues and students to become highly
successful in their endeavours.
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