Mrs. Meera Davar developed deep insights into the art and science of food processing and product development while pursuing her post-graduation. She holds the key to all the formulations developed under German Technical know-How in the laboratories of DMPO. Every single product gets tested, approved and passed under her care. She is a self -disciplined person gifted with enormous capacity to almost effortlessly organize and manage different institutions besides her own enterprise.

It was in recognition of her proven business & management acumen that the Govt. of India offered her directorship of Central Social Welfare Board as also the Govt. of M.P. offered her directorship of Women's Economic Development Corporation of M.P. She served at both the positions with distinction & a sense of purpose. She generated Self-employment opportunities for women entrepreneurs thereby lending dignity of life and self-reliance to the deprived. From project conceptualization to its successful implementation, from arranging bank loans to their timely repayment with interest became the hallmark of her work.

Besides making vital contribution to business she is also serving on the governing board of Jiwaji University as well as (i) Zonal Adviser LIC (ii) Organizer I.G. working Women's Hostel and (iv) Patron All India Magnetotherapists Assn.

The services that Mrs. Meera Davar has rendered to holistic health's promotion, progress and prosperity are many, varied and outstanding. 25 years ago she gained expertise in the curative properties of healing magnets and set up a well-equipped clinic under her care where she has been devoting each morning 3-4 hours treating 20-30 patients each day. Employing various educational tools like radio talks, addressing service clubs, press interviews, articles and holding camps in other states, helping establish social health clinics in rural areas she outreached to her best capacity. An attitude of modesty, humility, good manners and sobriety constitute are personality. She has worked with such devotion and fervor in establishing and organizing the first women's Half-Way Home in India that the National Human Rights Commission recognized it as a model and complimented her contribution.

Dr. G.S. Davar post-graduated from Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore securing distinction and first position as well as Institute's Gold Medal i.e. Dr. G.L. Gold Medal in 1961 at the hands of Padmshri Dr. V. Subrahmanyam --- an internationally renowned Babcock Hart Award winner Director of the Institute who offered him a fellowship for doctoral studies.

He served as H.O.D. department of Food Technology at New Delhi in the Institute of Applied Nutrition in pusa campus established by the Ministry of Food & Agriculture of the GOI and FAO of UNO under Mr. Belfielsmith of FAO.

Through an All India Open Competition he was awarded a scholarship i.e. Carl Duisburg Scholarship for persuing advanced studies in West-Germany at Karlsruhe under Herr Professor Dr. Kuprianoff where his doctoral work was carried out. Simultaneously he was invited to USA under a senior fellowship at Cornell University in 1965 by Prof. Dr. Robert C. Baker which he did not avail due to the priority he attached to his presence in India to attend to his ailing father who desperately needed him.

Later on in 1975 he was invited to present his work at the SOS "Science of Survival" Conference held in Washington.

In 1977 he was selected & invited by the International Institute of Protein Food Technology, Santa Monica, U.S.A. where he worked on Low Cost High Nutrition & visited Universities of Los Angeles, Prudue, Indiana & Philadelphia and also become a fellow of the Food Technologists Association, U.S.A.

In India his work has been devoted to the development of hydrocolloids based formulations for application in the Food Industry as Import substitutes of Sodium Alginate, Carrageenans, Locus Bean Gum, Gum Tragacanth for their use as quality improvers in the (i) Dairy Industries (ii) Bakery products (iii) Sauces & Gravies & (iv) Extruded products.

He also developed formulations for the paper industry to provide strength, finish and overall quality improvement of paper which found use with leading paper mills like Hindustan Paper Corporation, Pondicherry Paper Mills, Mandya Paper Mill etc.

For the leather industry he developed Paste-Drying Agent as substitute of imported Gum Tracacanth which found immediate approval & acceptance by Central Leather Research Institute, Madras as well as the well reputed Bata India & Gordon Woodroffe of Madras - ( the two leading most leather processing units in India).

He also developed additives for the pharmaceutical industry which found approval from leading manufacturers like M/s Raptakos Brett for use as tablet binder and as Aluminium Hydroxide gel stabilizer.

All his formulations bear either the prefix "Ico" or the suffix "Podric" which were registered.

In 1995 he was awarded "Udyog Ratna" award at the hands of Shri Vasant Sathe at Delhi.

Recently he was invited by the "TIMES" group as an author for their Food Processing related Journal being brought out as Economic Times Presentation. "TIMES" Food Processing Journal is meant to show-case the post-globalization State-of-the-art in respect of food laws, quality control, quality assurance and the ways & means of utilizing abundant opportunities in the field of food processing that exist in India.

One of his articles written in German language (along with his colleague Dr. W. Spiess) after completing German language course before beginning his work with Herr Prof. Dr. Kuprianoff has also been enclosed in this note.

Social & humanitarian service effort

Lions Clubs International is the largest voluntary humanitarian service organization in the world that plays an effective role in the U.N.O. also. In 1986 Dr. G.S. Davar was unanimously elected as District Governor Lions Clubs International with 86 Lions Clubs under his charge spread over M.P. and Rajasthan to be serviced in the District 323 E1. He acquired this position on the basis of his 10 years of humanitarian service effort under LCI banner.

One of his outstanding contributions to Gwalior in particular has been the success of a project designed and sponsored by him as District Governor for procuring well equipped cancer detection vans through LCIF at the cost of over Rs. 11,00,000.00 (Eleven Lacs) for the early detection of cancer in rural areas of M.P. & Rajasthan by the Cancer Hospital, Gwalior.

He also served as President Gwalior Jaycees. He is actively associated with the National Society for the prevention of Blindness M.P. chapter also.