Atish Mukherjee Director, Eco-N-Viron Enterprise, a Natural Dye producing unit based in West Bengal. He has developed an innovative system to extract natural dyes and subsequently preserve them in a dense liquid form; to obtain shade variations by the use of dyeing and mordanting baths without creating pollution; and developed a method to achieve a light and wash fastness.

Arup Mukherjee, Research and Development Officer, Visva Bharati University, Sriniketan, Bholpur.