Conclusion
During last 50 years of ( Golden Jubilee 1961-2010 ) activity in rubber field , both Research and Industry, in India and abroad, I have seen many ups & down and types & nature of people in the field. After remaining more or less stagnant for long years due to lack of R & D activity, rubber industry in India saw positive developments during about last one and half decade. Modernization, induction of young technologist, education programme in the field coupled with global economic aspect ; Indian rubber industry has a bright future despite steep increase in raw rubber prices.
Major factor for development is positive mind set which was / is a deterrent aspect with elderly people. To understand that innovation and development are essential to do profitable business and float in turbulent industrial water is very important. For this one needs education & positive approach and look to longer horizon. Few appreciate need & help from Technical / Project Consultancy but people who do, are reaping the harvest. This tribe in luckily increasing and we see diversified activity & products in rubber field.
India has today reached to a respectable situation and standard level in rubber chemistry & technology and industrial development. Behind this there are major contributions from a number of rubber technologists and scientists who worked during 1950 through 1980 against many odds and succeeded to bring the country to the present state. First and foremost among these devoted scientists & technologists was Dr. D. Banerjee who started with a small rubber unit in 1940’s and lead the development work through 1980’s, especially with Indian Rubber Institute. Further names who made Golden Jubilee of their activity in rubber field are Mr. L.M. Jamnadas, Mr. S.V. Lathia , Mr. M.M. Patel, Mr. R.R. Pandit (not sure whether he continued with activity after retirement from Bayer India to cover 50 years), Mr. D.J. Bharucha, Dr. A.S. Ghag (not sure ), Dr. R.K Mathan etc. Mr. K.M. Phillip contributed in rubber field as management & administrator and not as a rubber technologist. I might have missed few names and would be thankful if others could add here.
As Consultant often I have come across people telling that you give detail information on the product manufacture or Project and implement the same to prove the correctness before talking about payment. When I asked them, do you tell same thing to a medical Doctor that after cure of illness or to a lawyer that after winning the suit or a Teacher that after your boy does good result in examination, only the payment will be made – they keep away. Tendency to get free information by even rich businessman is still today strong, especially with particular trading community.
It is high time to realize that like all other field (whether religion or education or industry ) one needs a Guru to guide in the right path to achieve result in shortest time and lower cost.
Unfortunately, there are many quacks in rubber field also who thrive on groupism. They talk big using borrowed words but heir contribution in the field is little. Ethics have never been their forte. Fortunately, the importance of education of Elastomer Chemistry & Technology is recognized and young educated persons are entering the industry. There is strong hope of rubber industry.
During my life time activity I always tried to encourage & help young persons in the field, both in Institutes and in industry. For the last three decades I have been able to create a pool of qualified young technologists while working at different places & situation like Bayer (India) Ltd., Modi Rubber Ltd. & Indian Rubber Institute and partly with IITs (Delhi & Kharagpur), NITs etc. who excelled later in their profession and came-up in the hierarchy. We had a very young technical team in Modi Rubber Ltd. as well as Bayer (India) Ltd. and most of them were sent for training, skill up-gradation & higher education to different organizations in India and abroad (Germany, Bayer AG & Continental Gummi, Werke , USA, Europe etc.) and to different National & International Conferences including presentation of Technical Paper in these conferences. All of them proved worthy of the faith invested on them. Like olden days rubber technologists in the industry used to be from Dunlop, in the present time ,during last two decades, similarly ex-Modi Rubber technologists went to different rubber / tyre industry of the country, even other countries. I definitely can claim some credit to the success of the people in the industry who are today VP, Director & GM etc. who have worked as junior with me and achieved today’s stature. It does not matter who recognizes this but facts cannot be altered and personally I am happy with my ex-colleagues success. Not to recognize will be their smallness. Few names are mentioned below . Obviously this is not complete and I might have missed many.
Ex-Modi Rubber Ltd. people like S.K. Mustafi ( Modi Rubber / Apollo Tyres) ,L.K. Mathur ( Metro Tyre ) ,Vijay Mishra ( J.K. Industries) , M. Mithal ( Apollo Tyres), VRS Hudda ( China) ,G.C. Upadhyaya (China) ,V.K Sinha (China ) ,V.K. Rathi (JK Industries) , N.P. Gupta ( Ralson India Ltd) ,H.K. Rizhwani ( Gujarat Multi Gas Base Chemical Pvt. Ltd.) and others like Dr. R. Mukhopadhyay ( IIT, Kharagpur / Bayer / JK Industries) ,S. Sridhar Shankar (IIT, Kharagpur / Prabhat Industries ) , Dr. B. Banerjee ( Ex – IRMRA, Phillips Carbon Black) ,Dr. S.K. Dharia ( IIT-D, IPCL / Haldia Petrochemcial ) ,Prof. Debabrata Chakraborty ( Head , Applied Chemistry, Calcutta University). Besides, many people form supplier industry and academic institution were also given strong support in their life at every stage.
Similarly, with IRI, insignificant people were brought into limelight during my activity to revive IRI, bringing it to today’s state. A big team was created making strong impact in the country’s rubber field. Of course , all people do not have enough broad mind & courage to support the correct thing and the loss is their which is quite visible now a days, especially in case of Delhi branch & Council. My contribution in team building is an established fact which cannot be wished away.
I again reiterate that purpose of this series of “Rubbery Life” is that the next generation may gain from this.
With best wishes.
During last 50 years of ( Golden Jubilee 1961-2010 ) activity in rubber field , both Research and Industry, in India and abroad, I have seen many ups & down and types & nature of people in the field. After remaining more or less stagnant for long years due to lack of R & D activity, rubber industry in India saw positive developments during about last one and half decade. Modernization, induction of young technologist, education programme in the field coupled with global economic aspect ; Indian rubber industry has a bright future despite steep increase in raw rubber prices.
Major factor for development is positive mind set which was / is a deterrent aspect with elderly people. To understand that innovation and development are essential to do profitable business and float in turbulent industrial water is very important. For this one needs education & positive approach and look to longer horizon. Few appreciate need & help from Technical / Project Consultancy but people who do, are reaping the harvest. This tribe in luckily increasing and we see diversified activity & products in rubber field.
India has today reached to a respectable situation and standard level in rubber chemistry & technology and industrial development. Behind this there are major contributions from a number of rubber technologists and scientists who worked during 1950 through 1980 against many odds and succeeded to bring the country to the present state. First and foremost among these devoted scientists & technologists was Dr. D. Banerjee who started with a small rubber unit in 1940’s and lead the development work through 1980’s, especially with Indian Rubber Institute. Further names who made Golden Jubilee of their activity in rubber field are Mr. L.M. Jamnadas, Mr. S.V. Lathia , Mr. M.M. Patel, Mr. R.R. Pandit (not sure whether he continued with activity after retirement from Bayer India to cover 50 years), Mr. D.J. Bharucha, Dr. A.S. Ghag (not sure ), Dr. R.K Mathan etc. Mr. K.M. Phillip contributed in rubber field as management & administrator and not as a rubber technologist. I might have missed few names and would be thankful if others could add here.
As Consultant often I have come across people telling that you give detail information on the product manufacture or Project and implement the same to prove the correctness before talking about payment. When I asked them, do you tell same thing to a medical Doctor that after cure of illness or to a lawyer that after winning the suit or a Teacher that after your boy does good result in examination, only the payment will be made – they keep away. Tendency to get free information by even rich businessman is still today strong, especially with particular trading community.
It is high time to realize that like all other field (whether religion or education or industry ) one needs a Guru to guide in the right path to achieve result in shortest time and lower cost.
Unfortunately, there are many quacks in rubber field also who thrive on groupism. They talk big using borrowed words but heir contribution in the field is little. Ethics have never been their forte. Fortunately, the importance of education of Elastomer Chemistry & Technology is recognized and young educated persons are entering the industry. There is strong hope of rubber industry.
During my life time activity I always tried to encourage & help young persons in the field, both in Institutes and in industry. For the last three decades I have been able to create a pool of qualified young technologists while working at different places & situation like Bayer (India) Ltd., Modi Rubber Ltd. & Indian Rubber Institute and partly with IITs (Delhi & Kharagpur), NITs etc. who excelled later in their profession and came-up in the hierarchy. We had a very young technical team in Modi Rubber Ltd. as well as Bayer (India) Ltd. and most of them were sent for training, skill up-gradation & higher education to different organizations in India and abroad (Germany, Bayer AG & Continental Gummi, Werke , USA, Europe etc.) and to different National & International Conferences including presentation of Technical Paper in these conferences. All of them proved worthy of the faith invested on them. Like olden days rubber technologists in the industry used to be from Dunlop, in the present time ,during last two decades, similarly ex-Modi Rubber technologists went to different rubber / tyre industry of the country, even other countries. I definitely can claim some credit to the success of the people in the industry who are today VP, Director & GM etc. who have worked as junior with me and achieved today’s stature. It does not matter who recognizes this but facts cannot be altered and personally I am happy with my ex-colleagues success. Not to recognize will be their smallness. Few names are mentioned below . Obviously this is not complete and I might have missed many.
Ex-Modi Rubber Ltd. people like S.K. Mustafi ( Modi Rubber / Apollo Tyres) ,L.K. Mathur ( Metro Tyre ) ,Vijay Mishra ( J.K. Industries) , M. Mithal ( Apollo Tyres), VRS Hudda ( China) ,G.C. Upadhyaya (China) ,V.K Sinha (China ) ,V.K. Rathi (JK Industries) , N.P. Gupta ( Ralson India Ltd) ,H.K. Rizhwani ( Gujarat Multi Gas Base Chemical Pvt. Ltd.) and others like Dr. R. Mukhopadhyay ( IIT, Kharagpur / Bayer / JK Industries) ,S. Sridhar Shankar (IIT, Kharagpur / Prabhat Industries ) , Dr. B. Banerjee ( Ex – IRMRA, Phillips Carbon Black) ,Dr. S.K. Dharia ( IIT-D, IPCL / Haldia Petrochemcial ) ,Prof. Debabrata Chakraborty ( Head , Applied Chemistry, Calcutta University). Besides, many people form supplier industry and academic institution were also given strong support in their life at every stage.
Similarly, with IRI, insignificant people were brought into limelight during my activity to revive IRI, bringing it to today’s state. A big team was created making strong impact in the country’s rubber field. Of course , all people do not have enough broad mind & courage to support the correct thing and the loss is their which is quite visible now a days, especially in case of Delhi branch & Council. My contribution in team building is an established fact which cannot be wished away.
I again reiterate that purpose of this series of “Rubbery Life” is that the next generation may gain from this.
With best wishes.
