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BIO-DATA
                    Name                                      :             DR. UMA SANKAR SARMA
                    Father’s Name                      :             Late Shri Saligram Sarma
                    Present Address                    :             Director, RDTE

                                                  (Research, Development, Training & Extension)

                                                  CENTRAL COIR RESEARCH INSTITUTE,

                                                  P.O. - Kalavoor 688 522.

                                                                   Dist.-Alleppey, Kerala, INDIA

                                                                   Phone- 0477 2258 094 [O]

                                                                  Phone- 0477 2258 304 [R]

                                                                  Fax-      0477 2258 415

                                                                  Mobile- 098475 27172

 

            Permanent Address                  :                Vill. Kukathari, P.O.- Porsa, Distt. -Morena, M.P., INDIA

                                                                                 Phone-07538 241 556, 07538 255 444

            Date of Birth                             :                12th April, 1951.

            Date of superannuation           :               30th April, 2011.

 

Educational Qualifications:

 

Exam Passed                           Board/ University                                   Year                         Class / Divn

 

 1. H.S.                                    West Bengal Board                                      1968                            I Divn.

                                                 of Secondary Education.

2. B.Sc                                     Jadavpur University                                   1971                           IIClass

    (Chem.Hons)

3. M.Sc(Organic                       Jadavpur University                                  1974                           IClass       

   Chemistry)

4. Ph.D

    (Chemistry)                        Calcutta University                                                1982                        * by thesis             

*The title of the thesis was “Studies on Fibre Hemicelluloses”

 

POST DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN FRANCE

 

(1984-85)                Worked on the Lignin Carbohydrate Complexes of Normal and Mutant Rice Straws at the Institut

                                National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Nantes, France on a one year Post doctoral

                                Fellowship awarded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Govt. of France.

 

INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE

(1975-85)                        Worked in the R&D Laboratory of New Central Jute Mills Co. Ltd., Budge-Budge, W. Bengal on the aspects of bleaching, dyeing and finishing treatments on jute and allied fibres and fabrics.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

 

(1978-81)                          Worked at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS),Jadavpur, Kolkata on the

                                  aspect of lignin hemicellulose linkages of Pineapple fibres and the structure of the hemicellulose

                                  of Sansevieria leaf fibres and got Ph. D. degree.

(1986-89)                         Joined the Defence Research and Development Establishment (DRDE), Gwalior, M.P. and worked       on the aspect of preparation of semipermable protective  clothings and formulated the      projects on the utilisation of mustard straw and other agro wastes to convert them into value added products like fuel briquettes and activated charcoal.

(1989-30th

April, 1992)              Worked on the “Chemical Softening of the fibres for spinnability and production” at Indian Jute

                                  Industries’ Research Association (UNDP Assisted Project) Kolkata.

 

 

AWARDS

 

1.        29th June, 2004 - Received NRDC (National Research Development Corporation) Award, Govt. of India, for the Meritorious Invention of Metallic Handloom-“Anugraha” which was presented by Shri. Kapil Sibal, Hon’ble Minister for Science & Technology, Govt. of India.  His Excellency the then President of India Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was the Chief Guest of the function.

 

2.        5th November 2004 - Received ”Rajabhasha Shri Samman” from Bharatiya Rajabhasha Vikas Sansthan, Dehradun, at the valedictory function of the Seminar held at Puducherry, which was presented by His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry, Shri. M. M. Lakhera,.

 

 

3.        11th May 2002 – Received a Meritorious Invention Award instituted by NRDC, Govt. of India, which was presented by Shri. K.C. Pant, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Govt. of India, on the Technology Day for, “COCOLAWN™ - A Readymade Lawn”.

 

4.        11th May 1999 - Received a Meritorious Invention Award instituted by NRDC Govt. of India, which was presented by Dr. Murali Manohar Joshi, Hon’ble Minister for HRD & S&T, Govt. of India, on the first Technology Day for “Reducing the period of Retting of Coconut Husk and upgrading the quality of unretted green husk fibres by treatment, using bacterial cultures”.

 

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

1.        “Investigation on the structure of the hemicellulose obtained from the fibre of Sansevieria Trifasciata Leaves”, by U.S.Sarma and A.K.Mukherjee, Carbohydrate Research, 95 (1981) 81-86.

2.        “Investigations on the fibres of Pineapple (Ananas Comosus (L) Merr.) Leaves”, by U.S.Sarma, Carbohydrate Research, 97(2) (1982) 323-329.

3.        “Investigation on the structure of the hemicellulose obtained from the fibre of Sanservieria Trifasciata Leaves Part II”, by U.S.Sarma and A.K.Mukherjee, Carbohydrate Research, 105(2) (1982) 247-250.

4.        “Investigation on the fibres of Pineapple (Ananas Comosus (L) Merr.) Leaves: Structural study of the hemicellulose”, by U.S.Sarma, Carbohydrate Research, 111 (1982) 151-155.

5.        “Kinetics of oxidation of D-glucose by Hexachloroiridate and Tetrachloroaurate (III)”, by K.K.Sen Gupta, S.Sen Gupta, U.Chatterjee, A.Tarafdar, T.Samanta and U.S.Sarma, Carbohydrate Research, 117(1983) 81-87.

6.        “Studies on a brittle stem mutant of rice,Oriza sativa L., characterisation of Lignin fractions, associated phenolic acids and, polysaccharides from rice stem”, by U.S.Sarma, J.M.Brillouet, A.Scalbert and B.Monties, “Agronomie”, 1986.6(3), 265-2271.

7.        “Bioinoculants for Coir Retting” by Anita Das Ravindranath and U.S.Sarma, CORD II, No.1, 1995. Pg.34-40.

8.        The paper entitled, “Retted (White) Coir Fibre Nettings – The Ideal Choice as Geotextiles for Soil Erosion Control” by K.George Joseph and U.S.Sarma has been presented which has been published in the Proceedings of the IECA’s 28th Annual Conference, Tennesee, USA held on 25-28, February, 1997 pg.  67-76.

9.        “Rural progress through value addition in coir”, by U. S. Sarma, presented on 8 May, 2003, at the International Coconut Summit 2003, held at Kochi from 7-11 May, 2003.

10.      “Effect of random inclusion of fiber in the volume change behaviour of cochin marine clay”, S. Cyrus, U. S. Sarma, B. T. Jose, 2nd International Conference on Problematic Soils, 3-5 December 2006, Petaling, Selangor, Malaysia.

11.     “Determination of kinetic and equilibrium parameters of the batch absorption of Co (II), Cr (III) and Ni (II) onto coir pith,” by H. Parab, S. Joshi, N. Shenoy, A. Lali, U. S. Sarma and M. Sudersanan, Process Biochemistry, 41 (2006), 609-615.

12.     “Application of eco-friendly coir geotextiles for canal/river bank protection”, A.C. Jose, U. S. Sarma, K.R. Anil, and M. Kumaraswamy Pillai , Poster presentation in the Annual Conference of International Erosion Control Association, 2006 at California, Feb. 21-24.

13.     “Versatile Coir geotextiles”, A. C. Jose and U. S. Sarma, Poster presentation in the Annual Conference of International Erosion Control Association, 2007, at Reno, Nevada.

14.     “A novel method for accelerated composting of coir pith- an agro-industrial residue”, P.K. Ghosh, U. S. Sarma, Anita Das Ravindranath, S. Radhakrishnan and Prasenjeet Ghosh”, Energy & Fuels, 21 (2), 2007, 822-827.

15.     “Application of a coir geotextile reinforced mud wall in an area below sea level at Kuttanad, Kerala”, U. S. Sarma and A. C. Jose, has been presented, which has been published in the Proceedings of the Annual Conference of International Erosion Control Association, 2008  held at Orlando, Florida, Feb. 18-22.

16.      “Esterified coir pith as an adsorbent for the removal of Co (II) from aqueous solution,” by H. Parab, S. Joshi, N. Shenoy, A. Lali, U. S. Sarma and M. Sudersanan, Bioresource Technology, 99 (2008), 2083-2086.

17.      “Coir based soil less natural grass-instant lawn for soil erosion control”, U. S. Sarma and Sesh Kumar Pulipaka. Presented and published in the Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of International Erosion Control Association, held at Reno, Nevada, USA, February, 9-12. 2009.

18.     “Prevention of soil erosion through vegetation of mine dumps using coir geotextiles”, U. S. Sarma, V. S. Vijayaraghavan and Sesh Kumar Pulipaka, accepted for presentation in the 42nd Annual Conference of International  Erosion Control Association, to be held at Dallas, Texas, February, 16-20, 2010.

 

NATIONAL JOURNALS

 

1.         “Fire–retardancy of jute fabrics with potassium sodium tartarate (Rochelle Salt)”, by U.S.Sarma, Colourage, 32(26) (1985) 19-20.

2.        “Modification of the IJIRA Process of stabilised bleaching of jute fabrics”, by U.S.Sarma, Colourage, 32(26) (1985)19-20.

3.        Presented a review on the “Lignin –Carbohydrate complex of natural fibres”, by U.S.Sarma at the seminar on the 24th Annual General Meeting of the Textile Association of the India (West Bengal Unit), held on September 8, 1985, the part of which has been published in “Textile Trends” 28(6) (1985) 98: 28(8) (1985) 43-45.

4.        “Effect of anions in Cu(II) diamine complexes on catalytic hydrolysis of DFP”, by D.N.Marjit, U.S.Sarma, and D.K.Jaiswal, “Current Science” 57 (1989) 958-960.

5.        “Hydrolysis of diisopropyl phosphorofluoridate catalysed by copper (II) – diamine complexes”, by D.N.Marjit and U.S.Sarma, Indian J.Chemistry, 28 A (1989) 958-960.

6.        “HPLC study on the hydrolysis of parathion catalysed by Cu (II) – diamine complexes”, by U.S.Sarma, D.N.Marjit, D.K.Dube and S.K.Raza “Indian Journal of Chemistry”, 29A(1990) 800-802.

7.        “Study on the efficacy of CC-2 and Fuller’s earth combination as a decontaminant against sulphur mustard (mustard gas) dermal intoxication in mice”, by U.S.Sarma, P.Kumar and R.Vijayaraghavan, Defence Science .Journal, 41, No.4 (1991) 363-366.

8.        Presented a paper entitled “Technology Alternations in Coir Industry”, by U.S.Sarma in the Seminar, “The Coir Industry in Kerala – a study on the modernization and employment protection” held at Trivandrum on 12-13th November 1992.

9.        “Extraction of Lignosulphonates from Coir Pith – An agrowaste”, by U.S.Sarma and Anita Das Ravindranath, Proceedings of the Workshop on utilisation of Coir Pith, 1993, P. 11-13.

10.      “Biotechnology – A new avenue in Coir Research”, by Anita Das Ravindranath and U.S.Sarma, COIR, 37, No.1, January- June 1993.

11.     “Bioinoculant Treatment of Unretted Green husk Fibre for Quality Improvement”, by Anita Das Ravindranath, U.S.Sarma, COIR, 37, No.2, July-September, 1993.

12.     Presented a paper entitled “Coir Geotextiles and its Applications”, by U.S.Sarma, in the 2nd International Workshop on Geotextiles Organised by the Committee for International Geotextiles Society (India) held at New Delhi on 11-12 January, 1994.

13.      “German Ban – an eco-friendly prescription for the coir industry”, by U.S.Sarma, Coir News, Vol. 24, No.5, May 20, 1995, P.25-36.

14.     A paper entitled “Research and Development on Coir Technology”, by U.S.Sarma was presented at the Eighth Kerala Science Congress held at Kochi on 27-29, January 1996.

15.     A paper entitled “Manifold Potentials of Coir Geotextiles”, by U.S.Sarma and M.Kumararaja was presented at the “Seminar on Coir Geotextiles” held at Alleppey, has been published in the Coir News, Vol.26, No.4, April 20, 1997, P.27-30.

16.     “Eco Friendly & Versatile Coir Geotextiles”, by U.S.Sarma, Geosynthetic Asia’97, Vol. I, 26-29 Nov.1997, Bangalore, India, Eds, C.V.J.Varma, G.V.Rao and A.R.G.Rao, Publishers, Oxford and IBH Publishing Co.Pvt.Ltd, New Delhi, Session VI, P.49, 1997.

17.     “Studies on Imparting Softness to Coir Fibre/Yarn’, by I.R.Anto, P.K.Ravi and U.S.Sarma, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Wet Processing of Coir, 8-9 Dec.1997, Alleppey, India.

18.     “Investigations in Bleaching of Coir”, by I.R.Anto, T.Ravindran, P.K.Ravi, M.Kumaraswamy Pillai and   U.S.Sarma, Proccedings of the International Workshop on Wet Processing of Coir, 8-9 Dec.1997, Alleppey , India.

19.     “A Study on Bleaching of Coir using Bacterial Cultures”, by Anita Das Ravindranath, S.Radhakrishnan and U.S.Sarma, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Wet Processing of Coir, 8-9 Dec.1997, Alleppey, India.

20.     “Techniques of Dyeing Coir Materials”, by K.G.Mohanan, P.C.Antonel Vaz, J.Sunil Dath, A.Radhakrishnan, V.A.Sebastian and U.S.Sarma, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Wet Processing of Coir, 8-9 Dec.1997, Alleppey, India.

21.     “Printing of Designs on Coir Materials”, by A.Radhakrishnan, V.R.George Roy and U.S.Sarma, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Wet Procesing of Coir, 8-9 Dec.1997, Alleppey, India.

22.     “Application of Microorganisms to Enhance Biodegradation of Phenolic Compounds and to Improve Retting of Coir”, by Anita Das Ravindranath and U.S.Sarma, Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research, Vol.57, Oct& Nov.1998, P. 825-827.

23.      “Coir exports and eco regulations in Germany”, by U.S. Sarma, Coir News, Vol. XXIX, No. 10, October  20,2000, P. 15-19.

24.      “Softening of Coir”, by U.S. Sarma, Souvenir P. 103-109, published by Coir Board on the occasion of inauguration of the India International Coir Fair (IICF) and Seminar held on 11th to 13th October 2001 at Le Meridien Covention Centre at Kochi.

25.      “Recent advances in the processing of coir”, by U.S. Sarma, presented at the National Seminar on “Recent advances in natural fibre research”, organized by Indian Fibre Society (IFS) in collaboration with Central Research Institute for Jute and Allied Fibres (CRIJAF)”, on 15-16 December, 2001 at CRIJAF, Barrackpore, West Bengal.

26.     “Coir retting: Its influence in the Vembanad and Ashtamudi wetlands of Kerala”, by Anita Das Ravindranath and U.S.Sarma, presented at the “Regional Seminar on Ramsar Sites of Kerala”, held at Centre for Water Resources Development & Management, Kozhikode, on 21 February, 2003.

27.     “Coir Bhoovastra for soil bio-engineering applications”, by U.S.Sarma, presented at the National Seminar on Coir Bhoovastra organized by Coir Board at New Delhi, on 21 March, 2003.

28.     “Evaluation of bacterial treatment on the Flexural Rigidity and Light fastness properties of coir fibre”, by Anita Das Ravindranath & U.S Sarma (2004), Coir News Golden Jubilee Special Issue, August 2004, 22.

29.     “Coir Fibre Extraction and coir pith composting biotechnology”, by Anita Das Ravindranath, U.S.Sarma & S.Radhakrishnan (2005) Paper presented at the National Workshop on Women Friendly Technologies, Kochi Jan 20-22, 2005.

30.     “Spinning of coir/jute blended yarns in modified jute spinning system”, K. P. Chellamani, Debasis Chattopadhyay and U. S. Sarma, Asia Textile Journal, April, 2006, p 66-69.

31.     “Focused Approach to New Dimensions in Coir Industry during 11th Plan”, by U.S. Sarma (2006) paper presented at the National Seminar-cum-Exhibition held at New Delhi on 06.10.06.

32.     “Versatile Coir Geotextiles" paper presented at the International Seminar on "Geosynthetics in India-Present and Future", by U. S. Sarma  at New Delhi from 8th to 10th November 2006.

33.     “Applications of Geosynthetics-Use on Roads subgrades”,by U. S. Sarma paper presented at the Workshop on  Applications on  of Geosynthetics-Present and Future”  at Ahmedabad from 20-21st September 2007.

34.     “Research & Development in Coir”, by U. S. Sarma, paper presented at the “Bharatiya Vigyan Sammelan-2007 on 23rd November, 2007 – “A national level Sammelan on Science & Technology” at Bhopal from 23rd to 25th November 2007.

 

PROJECT REPORTS

 

  1. “Development of Impregnants for protective clothing (RD-P1-820DRDE – 71”, by S.M.Baronia, U.S.Sarma and V.S.Tripathi submitted at Defence Research and Development Establishment, Gwalior.
  2. “Upgrading of jute fibres by means of suitable chemicals for better spinnability and production”, by U.S.Sarma and R.N.Sarkar submitted at Indian Jute Industries’ Research Association, Calcutta.
PATENTS GRANTED

1.        A Process for the Preparation of a Fertilizer by U.S.Sarma and Anita Das Ravindranath (745/MAS/98 dated 6th April 1998).

2.        A Process for the Treatment of Coir Retting Effluents by U.S.Sarma and Anita Das Ravindranath (746/MAS/98 dated 6th April 1998).

3.        A Process for Reducing the Period of Retting of Coconut Husk using COIRRET by U.S.Sarma and Anita Das Ravindranath (747/MAS/98 dated 6th April 1998).

4.        A Process for Mechanically Extracted Green Husk Fibre by U.S.Sarma and Anita Das Ravindranath (748/MAS/98 dated 6th April 1998)

5.        A Process for Producing Paper Grade Pulp from Coir Bit Fibres (Case B )by U.S.Sarma, Anita Das Ravindranath, J.Sunil Dath and Christy Fernandez (64/MAS/99 dated 19th January 1999).

6.        A Process for Producing Paper Grade Pulp from Coir Bit Fibres (Case C) by U.S.Sarma, Anita Das Ravindranath, J.Sunil Dath and Christy Fernandez (65/MAS/99 dated 19th January, 1999).

7.        An Erosion Control Blanket (Case A) by Christy Fernandez and U.S. Sarma (588/MAS/2000 dated 28th July 2000).

8.        An Erosion Control Blanket from Coir Fibres (Case F) by Christy Fernandez and U. S. Sarma(842/MAS/2000 dated 5th October 2000)

9.        An Erosion Control Blanket (Case G) by Christy Fernandez and U. S. Sarma(843/MAS/2000 dated 5th October 2000).

10.     A Readymade Lawn by Christy Fernandez, U. S. Sarma and K. P. Somanathan Nair(664/MAS/2001 dated 13th August, 2001).

11.     A process for composting of coir pith and other recalcitrant agricultural residues, T. A. Rajendra Babu, Anita Das Ravindranath, U. S. Sarma, Christy Fernandez, P. K. Ghosh (948/MAS/2002 dated 17th December, 2002).

 

PATENTS FILED

 

1.        A Process for Producing Paper Grade Pulp from Coir Bit Fibres(Case A) by U.S.Sarma, Anita Das Ravindranath, J.Sunil Dath and Christy Fernandez (63/MAS/99 dated 19th January 1999).

2.        A process for Producing Paper Grade Pulp from Coir Bit Fibres (Case D)  by U.S.Sarma, Anita Das Ravindranath, J.Sunil Dath and Christy Fernandez (66/MAS/99 dated 19th January 1999).

3.        A process for preparation of coir composite board, R. Vasudev, M. Sudhakaran Pillai, U. S. Sarma, Christy Fernandez and P. G. Deshmukh (193/MAS/2003 dated 10th March, 2003).

4.        An improved mild steel handloom, T. A. Rajendra Babu and U. S. Sarma(548/CHE/2003 dated 2nd July 2003)

5.        A process for dyeing of coir with natural dyes, U.S. Sarma, P.K. Ravi, I.R. Anto, V.A.  Sebastian and R.Sunilkumar (1369/CHE/2003 dated 2nd July 2003).

6.        Treatment of coconut fibres, U.S. Sarma, P.K. Ravi and A.K. Mukherjee (1177/KOL/2005 dated 23rd December 2005).

7.        Pneumatic loom for weaving mat and mattings, T.A. Rajendra Babu and U.S. Sarma (1178/KOL/2005 dated 23rd December 2005).

8.        A process for the treatment of coconut fibres after separation from husk, M. Ray, S. Ray, A. K. Mukherjee and U. S. Sarma (720/KOL/2007 dated 20th April, 2007).