Dr Seema Paroha becomes NSI's Ist woman director

Kanpur: Dr Seema Paroha has become the first woman director of the National Sugar Institute in Kanpur. Dr Paroha, professor and head of Biochemistry department of NSI, took charge of the office as the director on May 1.

The NSI was established in 1936 and Dr Paroha is the first woman to take charge as the director of the institute in 88 years.

Talking about her priorities, Dr Paroha said that she would focus on filling up various vacant posts of the institute. She said that recently, the ministry gave administrative approval for establishing the Centre of Excellence on Bio-fuels in co-ordination with the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) shall be signed with the IIT-K in this regard at the earliest.

She added said various post graduate diploma level courses of the institute shall be converted into degree-level courses for providing better opportunities to the entrants. These courses shall become a milestone in developing the institute as ‘Institute of Eminence,’ said the new director of the NSI. Earlier also, she has been involved in various research programmes related to the value additions for improving profitability and sustainability of the sugar industry

Dr Paroha completed MSc in Biochemistry from Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore and completed her PhD from Rani Durgavati Vishwavidyalaya, Jabalpur. She joined Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Jabalpur as an assistant professor and thereafter, National Sugar Institute, Kanpur as professor and head of Biochemistry department in 2014.

She brought radical changes in the department by establishing Nano Brewery, Distillation Unit and upgradation of the laboratories. She also valuably contributed in establishment of NABL Accredited test facilities in the institute. She has a wide experience in the field of alcoholic fermentation, production of ethanol from alternate feedstocks - sugar beet, sweet sorghum, cassava, maize etc.

Apart from this she has shown a way forward for disposal of spent wash techniques by formulating the charter for distillery units located in river Ganga and Yamuna basin and treatment of waste water generated in the sugar factories in co-ordination with Central Pollution Control Board, Delhi.

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