Dr. N.N. Mahapatra has received prestigious Asian Admirable Achievers Award 2022 from Rifacimento International.
Rifacimento International is a major player in the field of book publishing. Established in the year 1982, it is a specialist publishing house. Its uniqueness is in the type of publications the firm has been bringing out regularly over the past 27 years.
Dr. N. N. Mahapatra is a B.Sc (Tech) in Textile Chemistry from UDCT, (now ICT), Mumbai. He also holds an M.Sc and Doctorate in Applied Chemistry from Utkal University, Orissa. He did his M.B.A from I.M.M., Kolkata.

Dr. Mahapatra has 38 years of experience working in the Textile and Dyes manufacturing industries in India and abroad in various senior capacities.
In the year 2007, he was also awarded C Col FSDC (U.K.) and C Text FTI (Manchester). In 2018 he was awarded a Fellowship (FRSC) from Royal Society of Chemistry, UK.
He has written 10 books (Textile Dyes & Dyeing, Textile Technology, Textile Processing, Textiles & Environment, Textile Dyes, Sarees of India, Textile Dyeing, Modern Textile Processing, Textile Printing and Processing of Fibres in Textile Industries).
Presently, he is working as Business Head Dye, Shree Pushkar Chemicals & Fertilisers Ltd, Mumbai.