Bandhan Bank Limited announced the appointment of Aparajita Mitra as an Independent Director on the company’s Board, with effect from July 13, 2022.
According to the company’s exchange filing, “We would like to inform that the Board of Directors of Bandhan Bank Limited (the ‘Bank’), at its meeting held on July 13, 2022, on the basis of the recommendations of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee of the Board, has approved the appointment of Dr. Aparajita Mitra (DIN: 09484337) as an Additional Director (Independent) on the Board of the Bank, with effect from July 13, 2022.”
Dr. Aparajita Mitra, a Doctorate in Agriculture (Dept. of Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology, Bose Institute), has an extensive experience and expertise of more than three decades in the field of agricultural sciences. She has done extensive research and published articles in the field of commercial micropropagation of horticulture/tree and medicinal species, DNA extraction and sequencing, DNA fingerprinting (plants), gel electrophoresis, protein and isozyme analysis, etc.
Dr. Mitra is a recipient of the CSIR Fellowship and the ‘Women Scientist Award’ from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, 2005, for the project “Identification of Disease Resistant Genetic Markers in Bamboo Spp.”
Dr. Mitra is a PhD in Agriculture, M. Tech. (Applied Botany, Dept. of Agricultural Engineering, IIT Kgp) and B.Sc. in Botany (Hons.), Chemistry and Zoology. She has also done hands-on training in cell cloning from National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Lucknow.
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