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Saturday, Jan 10, 2009
Ramanathapuram: The curriculum for the postgraduate degrees and Ph.D. programmes in the States-run-agricultural universities across the country would be changed, said Mangala Rai, Director-General, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi.
As many as 180 top class academicians and experts of the country had been engaged for the preparation of syllabus.
The Agricultural Universities were offering 95 subjects in post graduate degrees and 80 subjects in Ph.D. programmes.
All those had been taken up for changes. This would be prepared to meet the level of international standards on both theory and practical. The decision had been taken basically to commensurate with the globalisation of agriculture.
Mr. Rai told The Hindu on Friday after inaugurating the marine hatchery complex at Mandapam that the new curriculum would come into force from July 2009.
He would soon meet with all vice chancellors of 51 agricultural universities across the country to discuss the introduction of it. The new syllabus for undergraduate courses offered by the agricultural universities had already been introduced in 2007.
He added that it was decided that each agri university should have at least a centre of excellence. Ninety disciplines had been identified for this.
The ICAR would provide all supports including financial support.
The Central Cabinet had recently approved a proposal to establish Krishi Vigyan Kendras across the country. As per the plan, each district would have one KVK with six specialists, training facility for agriculturists, soil testing and other infrastructure. Two centres would be established in bigger districts with special focused areas. Similarly, all existing centres would be fine tuned to focus on the transfer of technologies into application.
Mr. Rai said the first KVK was established in Puducherry in 1974. There were just 261 KVKs up to the 9th plan period. But it had gone up to a substantial level of 562. Seventy eight more centres were on anvil.
The enormous increase in the allocation to agricultural research in the 11th plan was the main reason for this.
Curriculum for PG degrees will be changed: official
Ramanathapuram: The curriculum for the postgraduate degrees and Ph.D. programmes in the States-run-agricultural universities across the country would be changed, said Mangala Rai, Director-General, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi.
As many as 180 top class academicians and experts of the country had been engaged for the preparation of syllabus.
All those had been taken up for changes. This would be prepared to meet the level of international standards on both theory and practical. The decision had been taken basically to commensurate with the globalisation of agriculture.
Mr. Rai told The Hindu on Friday after inaugurating the marine hatchery complex at Mandapam that the new curriculum would come into force from July 2009.
He would soon meet with all vice chancellors of 51 agricultural universities across the country to discuss the introduction of it. The new syllabus for undergraduate courses offered by the agricultural universities had already been introduced in 2007.
He added that it was decided that each agri university should have at least a centre of excellence. Ninety disciplines had been identified for this.
The ICAR would provide all supports including financial support.
The Central Cabinet had recently approved a proposal to establish Krishi Vigyan Kendras across the country. As per the plan, each district would have one KVK with six specialists, training facility for agriculturists, soil testing and other infrastructure. Two centres would be established in bigger districts with special focused areas. Similarly, all existing centres would be fine tuned to focus on the transfer of technologies into application.
Mr. Rai said the first KVK was established in Puducherry in 1974. There were just 261 KVKs up to the 9th plan period. But it had gone up to a substantial level of 562. Seventy eight more centres were on anvil.
The enormous increase in the allocation to agricultural research in the 11th plan was the main reason for this.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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