Dignitaries included Mr. V. Srinivas, Joint Secretary, and Mr. A. B. Joshi, Textile Commissioner, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India; Dr. K. C. Jain, Assistant Director General of the Indian Council of Agriculture
Research; Mr. Dhiren Sheth, President of the Cotton Association of India and Mr. Nayan Mirani, Vice President of the Cotton Association of India; Mr. Subhash Grover, Chairman and Managing Director of Cotton Corporation of India; Mr. Suresh Kotak, Chairman of the Indian Society for Cotton Improvement and Chairman of Kotak & Company, Ltd, India; Mr. Sunil Bajaj, Executive Director, Mr. Luv Bajaj, Business Executive and Mr. M. K. Sharma, President of Bajaj Steel Industries, Ltd, India (Ginning machinery maker); Mr. Bharat Desai, Reliance Industries, Ltd., India; Dr. Paul Sawhney, Lead Scientist, ARS-USDA, New Orleans, USA; Mr. Muhammad Atif Dada, Dada Sons Pvt. Ltd., and the Chairman of Karachi Cotton Association, Pakistan; Alfred Deakin Professor Xungai Wang, Director, Center for Material and Fiber Innovation, Deakin University, Australia; and Dr. Rangam Rajkhowa of Deakin University, Australia. These dignitaries visited the nonwovens laboratory and interacted with students on research and product development.