Ranchi: Bisra Agricultural University (BAU) will initiate effective steps to ensure that pensioners and casual labours of the University will receive their monthly pension and wages earlier than payment of salaries to regular staff.
Newly-appointed BAU Vice Chancellor, Dr Onkar Nath Singh said this while speaking to media persons at university headquarters on Tuesday. He said monetary needs of low-paid labours and senior citizen pensioners are more urgent than that of those in active service therefore their payment need to be attached priority.
Dr Singh said that he would soon meet the Governor and Chief Minister with a request to use his good offices for expediting the process of recruitment of BAU teachers and scientists by JPSC as the acute shortage of scientific hands was adversely affecting the teaching, research and extension education works of the institution.
Since students are the brand ambassadors of any institution of higher learning, our special thrust will be on producing quality graduates and postgraduates who could excel at competitive examinations for jobs and PG/ Ph D entrance tests of leading universities and business schools of the country and abroad, Singh said. For technical upgradation, at least one teacher of every department will be sent to leading agricultural universities like Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar and Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore to have a firsthand experience of the teaching practices and laboratories of those institutions.
Outcomes of different research projects funded by ICAR, State Government and other national-international agencies were being reviewed and work plan for transferring the suitable technologies to farmers’ fields will be finalized soon in consultation with the Director Research and Director Extension Education of the University, the VC added. Topography of Jharkhand and awareness level and holding size of its farmers is different from those of agricultural majors like Punjab and Haryana, therefore different set of farm technologies are required for them. The University will also try to increase farmers’ productivity and income through the project ‘Bringing green revolution in eastern India (BGREI), started by the central government about a decade ago when late Pranab Mukherjee was the Finance Minister, the VC added.
The University will also launch ‘Birsa seed coverage programme’ through 16 district-level Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) working under its control from the coming rabi season. Twenty-five farmers of each KVK will be provided with 2 Kg seed of improved variety of wheat and rice to assess its performance in their fields and management conditions. Scientific guidance will also be provided as follow up to the selected farmers from sowing to harvesting.