N Sankar, Chairman of The Sanmar Group was conferred with the ‘Rasa Udyog Ratna’ award on 25 January 2008 by the Chemical Industries Association in recognition of his service towards the development of the chemical industry.
G S Laddha, former director, Alagappa Chettiar College of Technology, presented the award to Sankar.
The award was presented on the occasion of the second S Krishnaswamy Memorial Endowment lecture on ‘Four Decades of the Chemical Industry – a Personal Perspective,’ delivered by N Sankar at the Russian Cultural Centre in Chennai.
Industries Secretary, M F Farooqui, G Thyagarajan, former director of CSIR Labs, P K N Panicker, President, Chemical Industries Association and others were present at the function.