Indian nutritionist and college chancellor
Rajammal Packiyanathan Devadas (7 April 1919 – 17 March 2002) was an Indian nutritionist , educationist and a former chancellor of Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women , popularly known as Avinashilingam Deemed University .[ 1] She was a member of the State Planning Commission of Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu Commission for Women and the elected vice president of the World Food Conference .[citation needed ] The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 1992.[ 2]
Biography
Rajammal Packiyanathan, born on 7 April 1919 to Muthiah Packiyanathan and Sornammal, in Chengam , North Arcot District (present Tiruvannamalai district ) in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu , graduated in science from Queen Mary's College , Chennai in 1944 after which secured a master's degree in science (1948), a master's degree in arts (1949) and a doctoral degree in philosophy (1950) from Ohio State University .[citation needed ]
Rajammal published several books and articles[ 3] on the topics of nutrition and education[ 4] [ 5] and was the author of a book on T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar .[ 6] She was an honorary Colonel of the Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry chapters of the National Cadet Corps and a member of the Gandhigram Institute Rural Health and Family Planning, National Literacy Mission , Sigma Xi , Sigma Delta Epsilon , Omicron Nu , and Phi Upsilon Omicron .[citation needed ] She served as the president of the Nutrition Society of India from 1987 to 1991.[ 7]
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