Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar
Business planning unit set up
Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences has set up a Business Planning and Development (BPD) Unit under the Chairmanship of Dr. A. K. Pruthi, Dean, College of Veterinary Sciences. Dr. N. K. Kakker, Senior Scientist, Veterinary Microbiology has been nominated as its Principal Investigator. The BPD Unit will be operative in consortium mode along with BPD Unit of Haryana Agricultural University and has been funded by National Agricultural Innovation Project, Indian Council of Agricultural Research. The main objectives of the BPD Unit are to commercialize or license the potential technologies developed by the scientists of LLRUVAS to private sector entrepreneurs and companies through training and business incubation facilities and promotion of public private partnership. A Business Incubator with modern office and laboratory facilities for entrepreneurs and start-up companies will soon be established.
Joint project on Bluetongue
The Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) has approved a project on Monitoring and prevention strategies for Bluetongue virus epidemics in rural India. The project will be jointly implemented by the UK based Institute if Animal Health and the LLRUAVS. It has a budget of £ 55 lakh. Dr Simon Carpenter, Principal Investigator from IAH, along with Dr Lara Harrup visited LLRUVAS, to discuss the modalities of the project. The main objectives of the Indo-UK project is to study the vector biology of the Bluetongue virus which will help in designing the future strategies for the control of the bluetongue vector and indirectly the disease caused by this virus. Several ecological factors such as temperature, humidity, rainfall and vegetation also affect the dynamics of the vector population. Therefore, with the objective of understanding of interplay of different factors linked to vector-virus-host and environment leading to occurrence of BTV infection in a geographical region will be studied for developing effective control strategies.
Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar
New deans appointed
M S Turan of Haryana School of Business has been appointed as Dean Academic Affairs of Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology. Kuldeep Bansal has nominated as the Dean Students Welfare and B S Khatkar will be Director Youth and Cultural Affairs. Dhaminder Kumar will hold additional charge of Dean Colleges.
— Contributed by Raman Mohan
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