Membership in Committees

• Member, Research Council, Central Leather Research Institute, Madras, 1991-94.
• Member, Programme Advisory Committee in Organic Chemistry, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, 1987-94.
• Member, Sub Committee on "Processing Technologies", Materials Research Society of India, 1992-
• Convenor, National Organizing Committee and Key Organizer, POLYMERS'91, National Seminar on Polymers, Pune, India, 1991.
• Member, Technology Advisory and Review Committee, Risk Capital and Technology Finance Corporation Ltd., 1988-91.
• Member, Research Advisory Committee, Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun, 1984-87.
• Member, Management Councils, Indian Institute of Petroelum, Dehradun (1984-87), Regional Research Laboratory, Jammu (1988-91) and National Chemical Laboratory, Pune (1991-94).
• Member, Board of Studies in Applied Chemistry, Cochin University, 1982-86.
• Member, Technical Evaluation Committee and Coauthor, Report on Scientific Studies on the Factors Relating to Bhopal Toxic Gas Leakage, 1985.
• Member, Task Force on National Silicon Facility, Department of Electronics, Government of India, 1982-85.
• Member, Committee to Select Polyolefin Technologies for IPCL's MGCC Complex at Nagothane, appointed by Secretary, Department of Petroleum, Government of India, 1982.
• Author, Chapter 7.0, "Technologies", Draft Report on Sub Group of Polymers, Committee on Perspective Planning of Petrochemical Industry, July 1986.
• Member, Commission on Polymer Characterization and Properties, IUPAC, 1985-89.
• Member, Panel on Solar Energy, Advisory Board of Energy, Government of India, 1983-84.
• Author, Draft Report on "Polymer R&D", Sub Group on R&D in Petrochemicals for Sixth Five Year Plan, 1978.
• Examiner, Doctoral Thesis, Universities of Madras, Delhi, Calcutta, Allahabad, Sardar Patel, N. Bengal, Jabalpur and Kakatiya, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Indian Institute of Technologies, Madras, Bombay, Kharagpur and Delhi, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, M.S. University of Baroda, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands.