Birsa Agricultural University to hold two-day event to discuss strategies on achieving global standards

The event will witness the participation of vice-chancellors from different agricultural, horticultural, veterinary and fishery universities from across the country. 

Birsa Agricultural University (BAU) will begin the 45th vice chancellors’ convention of the Indian Agricultural Universities Association (IAUA) from today; i.e. December 20, 2021, and will continue until tomorrow. The event will witness the participation of vice-chancellors from different agricultural, horticultural, veterinary and fishery universities from across the country. During the meeting, the vice-chancellors will discuss the strategies of improving standards, sustainability and societal impact of agricultural universities.

The event will be inaugurated by Jharkhand’s governor Ramesh Bais informed BAU vice-chancellor Onkar Nath Singh. 

The technical sessions will be conducted from 10 am on December 21, 2021 at the Senate Hall. The deputy director-general, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, RC Agrawal will be the guest of honour at the inaugural session. A boobacker Siddique P, secretary of the agriculture department, Jharkhand, will be the special guest at the plenary session tomorrow where rapporteurs of different technical sessions will present recommendations for discussion and adoption.

It must be noted that BAU will be conducting the annual convention of IAUA vice-chancellors for the third time. It had earlier hosted the convention in 2007 and 2013.

Singh further stated that the ways and means of keeping the natural resources for agriculture safe for future generations will also be discussed and recommendations will be sent to all State and Central governments. He said that the Jharkhand government has recently sanctioned Rs 4 crore to BAU to establish a state-of-the-art disease diagnostic centre for animals and birds for diagnosing diseases with accuracy and suggesting remedial measures.

Besides, RK Mittal, IAUA president and vice-chancellor of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut, RC Srivastava, secretary-general, IAUA and vice chancellor, Dr Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Samastipur, Bihar, and vice-chancellors of over 30 universities from UP, MP, Odisha, Maharashtra, Bihar, New Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, West Bengal, Gujarat, Kashmir will be participating in the event.

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