The government has appointed Dr RS Sodhi, the Managing Director of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation or GCMMF (Amul), as the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the National Institute of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management – Thanjavur (NIFTEM-T).
The appointment order for this Tamil Nadu-based institute was issued by the Union Food Processing Ministry on October 10. According to the order, Dr Sodhi will remain in this post for three years.
NIFTEM-T is an institute 55 years old. It was started in 1967 as Paddy Processing Research Centre (PPRC). It was renamed as Indian Institute of Crop Processing Technology (IICPT) in February 2008. About a decade later, it was renamed as Indian Institute of Food Processing Technology (IIFPT) in March 2017. Its name has now been changed to NIFTEM. It offers B Tech, M Tech and PhD courses.