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XVII National Conference of Agricultural Research Statisticians

The Institute organized the XVII National Conference of Agricultural Research Statisticians jointly with NDRI at NDRI, Karnal, Haryana during November 27-28, 2013. Dr. Seema Jaggi from IASRI, New Delhi and Dr. Ravinder Malhotra from NDRI, Karnal were the Organizing Secretaries of the Conference. The Conference was inaugurated by Padam Shri Professor RS Paroda, Chairman, TAAS and Former Director General, ICAR. The Inaugural Function was presided by Dr. AK Srivastava, Director and Vice Chancellor, NDRI, Karnal. Introductory Remarks were given by Dr. VK Gupta, National Professor, ICAR. Conference Remarks were given by Dr. SD Sharma, Vice Chancellor, Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar. A Keynote Address on “Small Area Estimation - Some

Applications in India” was delivered by Dr. UC Sud, Director of the Institute. A special lecture entitled “Role and Challenges of Agricultural Statisticians - A perspective” was delivered by Dr. AK Srivastava, Former Joint Director of the Institute.

Following six technical sessions and one plenary session, were organized during the conference:

Technical Session I

Action taken on the Recommendations of the XVI National Conference of Agricultural Research Statisticians

Chairman: Dr. UC Sud, Director IASRI Presenter: Dr. Seema Jaggi Rapporteur: Dr. Prawin Arya

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Technical Session IIPriorities for Research in Agricultural Statistics: Current Status and Future Challenges

Chairman: Dr. VK Gupta, ICAR National Professor Conveners: Dr. Rajender Parsad/ Dr. AjitRapporteurs: Dr. Himadri Ghosh/ Dr. Ranjit Kumar Paul

Technical Session IIIPriorities for Human Resource Development in Agricultural Statistics and Informatics

Chairman: Dr. SD Sharma, Vice Chancellor, DSV Haridwar Co-Chairman: Dr. GR Patil, Joint Director (Academic) NDRI Conveners: Dr. PK Malhotra/ Dr. Seema Jaggi Rapporteur: Dr. Eldho Varghese

Technical Session IVPriorities for Research in Informatics: Current Status and Future Challenges

Chairman: Dr. RC Agrawal, Registrar General, Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Authority, New DelhiConveners: Dr. Anil Rai/ Dr. AK SharmaRapporteurs: Smt. Shashi Dahiya/ Sh. Sanjeev Kumar

Technical Session VStatistics and Informatics Interface with Animal Sciences

Chairman: Dr. Arjava Sharma, Director NBAGR KarnalConveners: Dr. KK Tyagi/ Dr. Ravinder MalhotraRapporteurs: Dr. Med Ram Verma/ Dr. Anil Kumar

Technical Session VIStatistics and Informatics Interface with Agricultural Engineering

Chairman: Dr. Pitam Chandra, Director CIAE Bhopal Conveners: Dr. KK Tyagi/ Sh. SD WahiRapporteurs: Dr. Susheel Kumar Sarkar/ Dr. Kaustav Aditya

Plenary SessionPresentation of Reports by Conveners and Summary of Recommendations

Chief Guest: Dr. AK Srivastava, Director NDRIChairman: Dr. UC Sud, Director IASRI Conveners: Dr. Seema Jaggi/ Dr. Ravinder Malhotra Rapporteur: Dr. AK Gupta

About 41 research papers were presented by distinguished speakers and about 100 participants from ICAR Institutes/ State Agricultural Universities of different States took part in these deliberations.

ANNUAL DAY CELEBRATIONS

The Institute celebrated its 54th Annual Day on 02 July 2013.

¾ Dr. D Rama Rao, National Director, NAIP, ICAR presided over the function and Dr. B Meenakumari, DDG Fisheries, ICAR, New Delhi delivered the Nehru Memorial Lecture on “Fisheries in India: a way forward”.

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TEACHER’S DAY CELEBRATIONS

The Institute celebrated Teacher’s Day on 05 September 2013. On this ocasion, Dr. VK Bhatia, Former Director IASRI was honoured. Dr. Bal BPS Goel, Former Director IASRI presided over the function.

¾ Nehru Memorial Gold Medal for the year 2010-12 was awarded to Sh. Pratyush Dasgupta and Ms. Anindita Datta M.Sc. (Agricultural Statistics) students and Sh Chandan Kumar Deb, M.Sc. (Computer Application) student.

¾ The Annual Report of the Institute for the year 2012-13 was also released on this occasion.

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period under report, a total of 123 seminar talks were delivered. Out of these, 83 were student seminars, 39 by scientists of the Institute and 01 by Guest Speaker Dr. Sarjinder Singh, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Kingsville, TX 78363 on 21 June 2013.

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SEMINARS

Salient outcomes from the completed research projects undertaken on different aspects of Agricultural Statistics, Computer Application and Bioinformatics were presented in the seminars organized regularly at the Institute. Open seminars were also organized for new research project proposals. Outline of Research Work (ORW) seminars, Course seminars and Thesis seminars were delivered by the students of M.Sc. and Ph.D. (Agricultural Statistics), M.Sc. (Computer Application) and M.Sc. (Bioinformatics). During the

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Students ORW 16Thesis 18Course 49

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SYMPOSIA / WORKSHOPS ORGANISED UNDER VARIOUS PROJECTS

S.No. Title Venue Date Sponsored Participants by

Workshops under MIS/FMS

1. User Training Workshop of MIS/FMS IARI, New Delhi NAIP Project MIS (6 Batches) 02-09 September & 23-28 September 2013 168 Finance 09-12 September 2013 33 HRMS & Self Service HR(2 Batches) 16-19 September 2013 47 Payroll & Pension 20-21 September 2013 232. User Training Workshop of MIS/FMS NDRI, Karnal NAIP Payroll & Pension 02-03 September 2013 44 Finance 04-05 September 2013 43 Purchase & Store 06-07 September 2013 47 Project MIS (4 Batches) 09-19 September 2013 1483. Sensitization Training/Workshop on IASRI, New Delhi 25 September 2013 NAIP 31 MIS/FMS Solution4. Data Sensitization workshop IILR, Ranchi 30 October 2013 475. User Training Workshops IARI, New Delhi NAIP Project MIS – 15 Batches 01-19 October and Purchase and Stores 23-24 and 28-29 October, 2013 47 HRMS and Self Service HR 30-31 October 2013 20 Payroll and Pension 25-26 October 2013 42 Workshop of MIS/FMS 11-12 Nov 2013 360

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6. User Training Workshops NAARM, Hyderabad NAIP HRMS and Self Service HR 11-12 November 2013 13 Payroll and Pension 13-14 November 2013 17 Financials 18-21 November 2013 20 Procurements and Stores 22-23 November 2013 17 Project MIS – 3 Batches 25-30 November 2013 83

7. User Training Workshops IASRI, New Delhi NAIP Financials 06-09 November and 11-14 November 2013 41 HRMS and Self Service HR 07-08 November and 22-23 November 2013 26 Payroll and Pension 18-19 November 2013 19 Project MIS – 8 Batches 18-19 November, 25-30 November and 02-12 December 2013 145 Purchase and Stores 20-21 November 2013 14

8. User Training Workshops CIFE, Mumbai NAIP HRMS and Self Service HR 29-30 November 2013 27 Financials 25-28 November 2013 40 Payroll and Pension 02-03 December 2013 31 Purchase and Stores 04-05 December 2013 28 Project MIS – 3 Batches 6-12 December 2013 75 MIS/FMS solution

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Other WorkshopsS.No. Title Venue Date Sponsored Participants by

13. Workshop cum Koha Professional Training IASRI, New Delhi 11-12 February 2014 NAIP 25 under “Strengthening of Digital Library and Information Management” (e-GRANTH) Coordinator: Pal Singh

14. Sensitization Workshop on NASC Complex, 27 February 2014 IASRI, 110 Internet Protocol Ver. 6 (IPv6) New Delhi New Delhi Coordinators: Sudeep Mukesh Kumar

15. An Interactive Workshop on Experimental DWR, Karnal 15 July 2013 Designs.

16. Agropedia 2.0: Capacity Building Workshop IASRI, New Delhi 15 July 2013 NAIP for New Partners in collaboration with ICRISAT

17. ICT for Capacity Building in Agricultural IASRI, New Delhi 26-27 July 2013 Education Education in India under CAFT Division, ICAR

18. 4th Installation Training-cum-Nodal Officers CIFE, Mumbai 29-30 August NAIP Workshop under SSCNARS 2013

19. 4th Partner’s Meet and Installation IASRI, New Delhi 17-18 September NAIP Training-Cum-Workshop of Nodal Officers 2013 Under SSCNARS