Samir Kumar Neogi, a Textile Technologist, acquired his B.Sc. (Tech.) in Textile Technology from the University of Calcutta in 1968, M.Phil in Weaving from Leeds University, UK in 1972 and PhD from Jadavpur University in 1996. During his long service career spanning over 31 years he carried out a number of research projects, presented research papers in 19 conferences and seminars, published nearly 5 research papers in the various national and international textile journals. The author has 4 Indian patents all relating to mechanical developments of weaving or its preparatory machines. The author was also awarded the fellowship of the Textile Association (India) in 1999. He was also awarded the fellowship for UNDP project and visited Italy and England under the programme. He is the recipient of NRDC (National Research and Development Council) award for a development work relating to a jute processing machine. For about last 7 years he has been conducting weaving training programmes at the jute mills of the country as the resource person fi rst on behalf of the Institute of Jute Technology and then the Indian Jute Industries' Research Association, under the HRD programme of Ministry of Textile, Government of India.