All India
Agricultural Students Association
National Societies
Block- A/G-4,
National Agriculture Science Centre (NASC) Complex,
Dev Prakash Shastri
Marg, Pusa, New Delhi
– 110012
Website:
www.aiasa.co.in
No. 8-1/AIASA/2012 Dated:
7th April, 2012
First Agricultural Students Cabinet
Agricultural Students representing more
than 55 Agricultural Universities including Horticulture, Animal Husbandry,
Dairy, Veterinary, Fishery Forestry,
Agricultural Engineering Universities have constituted a welfare Society for
Agricultural students namely All India Agricultural Students Association (AIASA)
under the Society Registration Act, 1860. Dr. M. S. Swaminathan, father of
Indian Agriculture is its patron. It was formed on 8th of January 2010.
It received its registration on 1st of December 2011. Till now an
ad-hoc executive committee was looking after its affairs. The Association in
its first Annual General Meeting held at New Delhi constituted 77 members
Governing Body/Cabinet Members including 18 advisors. A notification for
constitution of AIASA Cabinet has been issued on 4th April, 2012. Mr. Biswajit Mondal, PhD Student and former
President of Post Graduate School Students Association, IARI, New
Delhi has been elected National President, Mr. Nirmal Singh, PhD
student from Punjab
Agricultural University
its General Secretary and Mr. Manjit Lad, PhD student as Chief Coordinator. Mr.
Sanjay Patel, M. Sc Student from IGKVV, Raipur
has been elected as Senior Vice President and Ms. Heena Rasool Mir, PhD student as Treasurer. There are
6 vice presidents, 6 Joint Secretaries representing each zone of the country
(west, East, North-East, Central, South and North). Besides, 41 University coordinators and 18 Advisors
have been included in the Cabinet. Mr. Nirmal Singh, General Secretary has
informed that with in 6 months all the Agricultural students of the concerned
Universities will be registered on the roll of Association and thereafter one
million students and agricultural professional will make awareness campaign in
the farming community for adoption of latest technologies through seminar,
meetings, group discussion etc and the representatives of AIASA will actively
participate in the policy making body and will impress upon the government to implement
the recommendations of various government appointed agricultural
committees/commissions including National farmers Commissions Recommendations
for betterment of farming communities. The
spokesperson of AIASA emphasized that there is a need for better coordination
of Centre-State relationship on agriculture and it should immediately be brought
under concurrent list. Instead of improving the condition of farmers and
farming community, the condition is deteriorating day by day. The agricultural
education standard is going down due to poor funding to agricultural
Universities and many times it’s become difficult to pay the salary of the
teachers what to talk of providing extension services to farmers and research
laboratories. There is no regulation about
opening private colleges in agriculture and allied subjects. Recently, in a few
states of India
lots of private collages have cropped up without any standards. There is
missing link between ICAR and agricultural development departments in Centre
and States. The non agriculturalists are at the helm of affairs of agricultural
developments and many of them are involved in corrupt practices such as the
then Agriculture Secretary Ms. Tinu Joshi, IAS officer in MP who made Rs.360
crores. It is a need of the hour to take immediate steps for involving
agricultural technical professionals in policy making and developmental programmes
at every level. We ourselves call it agriculture based country but agricultural
professional don’t have any say in agricultural policy making body or in implementation
of agricultural development programmes. We have largest pool of agricultural
research and education workers in Asia but
there is no effective agricultural development, extension, trade due to lack of
professional involvement. The AIASA will bring awareness in the entire
agricultural community in the country for creation of all India Cadre of Indian
Agricultural Service by having specialized cadres of Agricultural Research
Service, Agricultural Education Service, Foreign Agricultural Service,
Agricultural Development Service, Agricultural Marketing and Inspection Service
on the pattern of developed countries for serving the farmers and nation. More
than 50 farmers associations supported the activities of AIASA for immediate
creation of all India Cadre of Indian Agricultural Service.
-Sd-
(Nirmal
Singh)
General
Secretary
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