Kaushik Boruah
The process developed by Kaushik helps to obtain continuous silk filaments from the cut or pierced muga cocoons.
Traditionally, the cut/pierced cocoons are used to make gicha yarn in the villages. Using this process, 50 percent of silk from these cocoons can be recovered; rest can be used to make gicha yarn.
He is 2010 IGNITE Award recipient and the patent (1244/KOL/2010) for his invention is filed by NIF.