With deep regret we inform you that our very senior member & Past President of The Textile Association (India), Mumbai Unit Shri Sushil Sain passed away on 9th July 2011 at Mumbai.

Mr. Sushil Sain was one of the pioneers of the textile industry in our country.

One of the youngest professionals in the industry, was an alumni of the Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute (VJTI). He had number of honours to his credit including Fellow of the Textile Association (India), Fellow of the Textile Institute Manchester. He Chaired prestigious positions like Board of Textiles Studies of the VJTI.

Young and dynamic Mr. Sain became the Chief Executive Officer of one of the mills of the NTC (SM) Ltd. and rose to the position of Director (Technical) due to his outstanding knowledge. He was also appointed on the high profile Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB).

At the age of 36 he become the Chairman & Managing Director of NTC and was looking after the working of 18 textile mills, located at West Bengal, Assam, Bihar, Orissa and Bombay.

He was then given a dual charge as a Chairman & Managing Director of NTC (SM & MN) Ltd. with a big responsibility of managing 22 textile mills with the strength of about forty five thousand workers.

The Union Government in October 1983 decided to take over 13 sick mills and the President of India issued an ordinance in this regard. Mr. Sain and his team conducted this midnight operations with the help of local authorities and took the physical take over of these mills by dawn.

The Commerce Minister, Govt. of India was personally supervising this operations in Mumbai was getting a feedback every thirty minutes from Mr. Sain and his team. These 13 mills, like Tata’s, Finlay, Kohinoor, etc were merged with the corporation. Thus Mr. Sain was looking after the working of 35 large mills having a labor strength of around ninety thousand workers, which was a gigantic job. He was popular with his staff and workers, easy to meet but a hard task master.

Mr. Sain then was asked to shift to Delhi to take up the position of Managing Director of the Holding Company which he was not interested.

In 1986 at the age 45 he left NTC and decided to enter in to telecom operations and bringing new agencies in the telecom sector. He has been a pioneer bringing in video conferencing equipment to the country. He was also advising for the set up of new textile mills alongwith his old associates.

Mr. Sain was very actively associated with The Textile Association (India), Mumbai Unit. He was the President of Mumbai Unit from 1987 to 1989 and Member of Trustees from 1991 to 2010.

In 1986 Mr. Sain was conferred with a prestigious “Honorary Membership” of the TAI for his distinguished contribution towards the development of Textile Industry of India. He was also felicitated by the Mumbai Unit with “The Lifetime Achievement Award” during International Seminar on 12th March 2010 at Mumbai.

We all at TAI, Mumbai Unit deeply mourn the demise of Mr. Sain and offer our condolences to his family and pray the Almighty to bestow Everlasting peace to his soul.

Mr. Sain, we will always remember you.

The Textile Association (India) has suddenly lost its star player viz. Shri Shailesh M. Dalal. He played an uninterrupted inning of dedicated services to TAI, Central Office as well as Mumbai Unit. He was one of the key functionaries of this important Organization of Textile Professionals.

Mr. Dalal was a very active member of The Textile Association (India). He served TAI, Mumbai Unit as its Managing Committee member from 1991 to 1993 and Governing Council member from 1993 to 2001 and also from 2007 to till date. He also served Central Office as Jt. Hon. Gen. Secretary from 1993 to 2001. Presently from 2007 he was the Hon. Treasurer of TAI, Mumbai Unit.

He was awarded Direct FTA (Fellow of Textile Association) and a Service Memento of The Textile Association (India) for the year 2009, which was conferred on him in the All India Textile Conference held at Indore on 24th January 2010.

His Public Relation skills were truly marvelous and that in fact helped the Textile Association to nurture and sustain the support. Though he was a technical expert from the field of Textile he had tremendous knowledge of accounts. His suggestions took the balance sheet of Mumbai Unit to the glory.

Mr. S. M. Dalal was B.Text from V.J.T.I., Mumbai University. After having worked in reputed textile mills in Mumbai viz. Morarjee Textiles Ltd., Mafatlal Industries Ltd., Finlay Group of Mills at various positions for a period of around 6 years, he joined Bombay Textile Research Association (BTRA), Mumbai in 1979. He rose from a level of Senior Technical Assistant to Chief Textile Technologist in BTRA. Presently, he was Head of Operations Studies Division. During his tenure in Mills/BTRA, he passed DIM (Diploma in Industrial Management) with first class distinction.

He has good liaison with state and other Government bodies for revival of NTC/MSTC mills and co-operative Spg. Mills in Maharashtra and for formulating textile policy 2008 for Govt. of Maharashtra.

Such a dynamic personality surrendered to a massive heart attack when he was on his way to his office, BTRA and left all alone to the heavenly abode on 4th September. Shri S. M. Dalal a man of the masses who truly had a special place in the hearts of many Textile Professionals is no more with us but his memories will always inspire us in the years to come. By the sad & sudden demise of Mr. Dalal, The TAI has lost a very important Pillar of Strength.

We all at TAI offer our condolences to the members of his family and pray the Almighty to bestow Everlasting peace to his soul.

The Textile Association India has lost its star player who played an uninterrupted inning of dedicated service to its development since 1985. Although Mr. Pawar, did not take up any position on the Central Office, he was one of the key functionaries of this important Organization of Textile Professionals. Many of the Governing Councils Meetings, Election of National Presidents and almost all the All India Textile Conferences where in Mr. Pawar made his presence felt.

Since 1985, he took up as the Hon. Secretary of Mumbai Unit of The Textile Association (India), which is considered to be main back bone of Textile Association (India), and it is this Unit under the guidance of his able stewardship, which grew strength to strength. The activities of Mumbai Unit increased enormously and so also its reserves. Today Mumbai Unit being financially quite sound, a lot of credit goes to Mr. Pawar. Almost every month there has been some activity held by Mumbai Unit and thus Textile Professionals enjoyed these meetings which gave them the opportunity to get enlightened on various subjects. Mr. Pawar served TAI, Mumbai Unit as its Governing Council member since 1985. He also served Mumbai Unit as Jt. Hon. Treasurer during 1974-75 and Jt. Hon. Secretary during 1975-79.

Mr. Pawar was instrumental in enabling Mumbai Unit to bag best Unit Trophy on a number of occasions. It was under his leadership the Membership drive was accelerated and it increased almost by two fold. Such a phenomenal increase in membership was observed even when Textile Mills were not doing that well in Mumbai region. Mumbai Unit was able to organize three International Conferences and it is because of special qualities Mr. Pawar possessed, that best of Industrialists and academicians as well as highest Government officials became very friendly with him. His Public Relation skills were truly marvelous.

Mr. Pawar breathed TAI every minute. He was also publisher for Journal of Textile Association and thus was in touch with the industry for collecting advertisements from them for the Journal. He in fact played an important role of getting JTA financially self sufficient by generating revenue through the advertisements.

He was able to establish Auditorium Fund and was dreaming to build an independent Auditorium in Mumbai in TAI ,Dadar Complex. His latest dream project was to develop the Shivaji Park Property of TAI.

A man who came from humble family, though not highly qualified, but reached to such an height where he could, converse with CEOs, and Top Officials with equal ease and the secret behind all this was his extreme level of adaptability, flexibility and ability to be always in learning mode.

He was able to maintain extremely well, the good relationship with the industry and that in fact helped the Textile Association to nurture and sustain the support.

Such a star, had received the first heart attack when he was on the dais at one of the seminars being held in Suburb a few years ago. The second attack he received just about 6 months ago and since then he had curtailed his activities. And finally this man of the masses who truly had a special place in the hearts of many Textile Professionals took his Flight to the heaven on 31st May 2007, just a few hours before he was to attend Managing Committee meeting, which he had planned & discussed with all members.

By the sad demise of Mr. Pawar, The TAI has lost a very important Pillar of Strength and it will take a long time to fill this gap since this loss is irreparable.

We offer the condolences to all the members of his family and pray that God blesses his soul to rest in peace.

It is with great sorrow we would like to inform you that very senior member of The Textile Association (lndia), Mumbai Unit Shri S. Y. Nanal expired on 3' December 2008 due to sudden massive heart attack. He was to complete 76 years of his glorious life just after thirteen days. He was looking forward for the release of his book during the lnaugural Session of the 64th All lndia Textile Conference which was scheduled for 20th December at Bhilwara, Rajasthan. Fate, however, ordained that Shri Nanal was not to see his very first book in print.

Shri S.Y. Nanal was born in Pune in 1932 and did his B. Text. degree in 1955 securing first class from the University of Bombay. He then completed his M. Text- in 1958 with research thesis on Fibre Friction.

His 53 year long textile career covered teaching, research, quality control and mill management, technical services for polyester fibres, consultation and marketing. He was associated with educational instituties like VJTI, BTFIA and also served with leading commercial houses of Reliance lndustries Ltd., Mafatlal lndustries, P.T. Polysindo Eka Perksa ,Jakarta, lndonesia.

His sincerety & devotion towards the job was highly appreciated by all the organizations where he was attacdhed. He continued to worktill the age of 65 with the same enthusiasm"

Shri Nanal served the The Textile Association (lndia) since early l960's in various capacities and was Vice President of Mumbai Unit during 1987-89. He was awarded Hon. F.T.A. in the year 1987. He was a member of the Assessment Committee for Hon. FTA. ln 2007, He was instrumental in opening up of a new unit of TAI at Hyderabad.

The Texile Association (lndia), Mumbai Unit has lost a multidimensional member. All the members of Mumbai Unit salutes Shri Nanal and pay respectful homoage to him and share the grief of the eniire Nanal family.

May his soul rest in ever lasting peace.

We are very sad to inform you that Shri P. G. Wagle expired on 6th November 2008, He served The Textile Association (lndia) in many capacities and was very closely associated with Mumbai Unit- He was Hon. Secretary from 1984-65 and again from 1968-70. He Hon. Treasurer in 1967 and became
the Chairman of the Mumbai Unit in in 1985-87. He also served the Central Office as a Vice Chairman and took keen interest in coordinating varisus activities organized by the units.

The Textile Association (lndia), Mumbai Unit has lost a guide and philosopher due to the death of Shri Wagle. His advice to the Mumbai Unit will be missing henceforth. We convey our heartfelt condolences to the Wagle family and pray to the Almighty to bestow peacetothe departed soul.