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Rajshree Pathy

Rajshree Pathy, is an eminent entreprenuer and business woman from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. She heads the Rajshree Sugars and Chemicals and currently the President of Indian Sugar Mills Association.She also promotes Performing Arts movement in Coimbatore.

Background

Rajshree Pathy is the daughter of Late Shri G. Varadaraj, of PSG Families engaged in Charities and Educational Institutions for more than a century. Her father was also a former Rajya Sabha MP. She is married to Pathy Sundaram, from the Lakshmi Mills family.

Company

Rajshree Sugars and Chemicals Ltd.,is a company with interests across integrated fields such as Sugar, Distillery, Power Co-Generation and Biotechnology. The range of products include White Crystal Sugar, Alcohol, Organic Manure, Bio-products and Power. A speciality Demerara Sugar is marketed under the brand name RSCL Sugar Brown. RSCL with its Corporate office in Coimbatore, has three modern sugar-manufacturing units located in Tamilnadu one at Varadaraj Nagar, Theni District, the second at Mundiampakkam, Villupuram District and the third at Gingee, Villupuram District. RSCL also has a Sugar factory located at Zaheerabad, Medak District in Andhra Pradesh.

Activities

Rajshree Pathy inherited her fathers business, following his death in 1992. She was elected President of the Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) for the year 2004-05, the first woman to head the Association. In 1996, Rajshree Pathy received the Global Leaders of Tomorrow recognition from the World Economic Forum, Davos (Switzerland). She has been elected President of the South Indian Sugar Mills Association (SISMA), for the second time for the period 2007-2009.

She has been interviewed by several magazines and has also contributed to the Sunday Express newspaper. She was awarded the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship in the year 2000 and was awarded "Woman of the Year" by FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) in India in the year 2006.