Mr. Prakash Kallappa Awade, Expert Director, Kallappanna Awade Jawahar Shetkari Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana Ltd., is a Non-Executive Director of the Company. He has more than 40 years of experience in Textiles and Sugar Industry. He is a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elected from Ichalkaranji Assembly constituency in Kolhapur city. He served as Minister of State for Co-operation & Textile, 1988–90. In year 1999 he was appointed as Minister of State for Textile and promoted Cabinet Minister of Textile from July 2004. He was ex-chairman of Maharashtra State Textile Corporation, Mumbai and Kallappanna Awade Co-op. Industrial Estate and Integrated Textile Park Ltd., Tardal-Hatkanangale. He is a Director of National Federation of Co-op. Sugar Factories Ltd., New Delhi, Maharashtra Rajya Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana Sangh Ltd., Mumbai, and Vasantdada Sugar Institute, Pune.