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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Paul Pothen<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1916|01|08}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Kerala]], India<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2004|08|03|1916|01|08}}<br />
| death_place = Kochi, Kerala, India<br />
| occupation = Industrialist<br />
| known_for = founding FACT and IFFCO<br />
| awards = [[Padma Shri]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Paul Pothen''' was an Indian industrialist and one of the pioneers of fertilizer industry in India.<ref name="Industrialist Paul Pothen dead">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/2004/08/04/stories/2004080403090500.htm | title=Industrialist Paul Pothen dead | date=4 August 2004 | work=[[The Hindu]] | access-date=28 June 2015}}{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> He was the founding managing director of three large scale fertilizer manufacturing firms in India.<ref name="Industrialist Paul Pothen dead" /><br />
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Pothen was born in a [[Mallapally]]-based<ref name="Mallapally">{{cite web | url=http://www.mallappallynriuae.com/ | title=Mallapally | publisher=Mallapally NRI UAE | date=2015 | access-date=28 June 2015}}</ref> Christian family on 8 January 1916 at [[Nedumangad]], in the [[Thiruvananthapuram]] district of the south Indian state of [[Kerala]] and graduated from the [[University of Madras]] in 1935, after which he secured his graduation in civil engineering from the [[University of Mysore]] in 1940.<ref name="Industrialist Paul Pothen dead" /> He continued his studies to get higher training in electrical engineering at the [[Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee|Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee]] (formerly Rourkee University) and did an advanced course in Canada under the aegis of [[Colombo Plan]] in 1965-66.<ref name="Industrialist Paul Pothen dead" /><br />
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Pothen started his career by joining the [[Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore|Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Limited]] (FACT) in a senior management position in 1944 where he stayed until 1965 when he was made the founding managing director of ''FACT Engineering and Design Organisation'' (FEDO) in 1965.<ref name="Industrialist Paul Pothen dead" /> Three years later, when the [[Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative]] (IFFCO) was established in 1968, Pothen was made the founding managing director.<ref name="Industrialist Paul Pothen dead" /> He continued at IFFCO till 1981 and moved to [[Krishak Bharati Cooperative]] (KRIBHCO) as the organization's founding managing director.<ref name="Industrialist Paul Pothen dead" /> He headed the Fertilizer Association of India for several years and was also associated with the [[Travancore Cochin Chemicals]]<ref name="Industrialist Paul Pothen dead" /> and Fact Technical Society.<ref name="Fact Technical Society">{{cite web | url=http://www.facttechnicalsociety.org/about.asp | title=Fact Technical Society | publisher=Fact Technical Society | date=2015 | access-date=28 June 2015}}</ref><br />
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The [[Government of India]] awarded the fourth highest Indian civilian honour of [[Padma Shri]] in 1977.<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Shri | publisher=Padma Shri | date=2015 | access-date=18 June 2015}}</ref> He died on 3 August 2004 at the age of 88, succumbing to old age illnesses at [[Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences|Amrita Hospital]] in Kochi.<ref name="Industrialist Paul Pothen dead" /> The [[Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative]] named one of their townships as Paul Pothen Nagar, in honour of their former managing director.<ref name="Paul Pothen Nagar">{{cite web | url=http://www.getpincode.info/paul-pothen-nagar-bareilly | title=Paul Pothen Nagar | publisher=Get Pin Code | date=2015 | access-date=28 June 2015}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
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* [[Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore]]<br />
* [[Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative]]<br />
* [[Krishak Bharati Cooperative]]<br />
* [[Travancore Cochin Chemicals]]<br />
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[[Category:Indian industrialists]]<br />
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[[Category:University of Mysore alumni]]<br />
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