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Cabinet approves 'Three Year Action Plan of Agricultural Education
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- The Union Cabinet has approved the continuation of the Three Year Action Plan (2017-2020) of the scheme for Agricultural Education Division and ICAR Institutes with an outlay of Rs.2225.46 crore to strengthen and develope higher agricultural education in India.
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- To generate quality human resources from the institutions of higher agricultural education is the ultimate aim of the program.
- It encompasses several new initiatives including, steps to attract talented students, reducing academic inbreeding and addressing faculty shortage.
- It will also take care of green initiatives, mitigating faculty shortage, international ranking, alumni involvement, promoting innovations, inspired teacher network, reducing inbreeding, academia interface, technology enabled learning, Post-doctoral Fellowships, Agriculture Education Portal, Scientific Social responsibility etc.
- For quality assurance ranking of the agricultural universities has been linked to the financial support under the scheme along with accreditation.
- Support for strengthening and modernization of infrastructure related to student and faculty amenities and capacity building of both faculty and students in cutting edge areas through Niche Area of Excellence programme will improve teaching and encouraging holistic development of the students.
- This will lead to generation of competitive and confident human resource.
- In addition, research on gender issues in agriculture and allied fields, formulating gender-equitable agricultural, policies/programmes and gender-sensitive agricultural-sector responses will be undertaken.
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PIB