An online system which enables automation and streamlining of all the academic activities of a university has been developed at ICAR-IASRI. The system has been designed in a modular approach with in-built work flows. It allows all ICAR Deemed Universities to follow the best standards and builds a repository of the academic records and e-learning resources.
Presently the system is operational at IARI New Delhi, CIFE Mumbai, IVRI Izatnagar, NDRI Karnal and CAU Imphal. It has been decided that under Eakikrit Krishishiksha Takniki Ayaam (EKTA) initiative of Education Division, ICAR that this system will be extended to all the Central Universities by March 2018.
Unique Student ID (USID)
In the EKTA (Eakikrit Krishishiksha Takniki Ayaam) initiative, it has been decided to
assign Unique Student ID (USID) for all the students enrolled in universities of NARES.
Unique Student Id will ensure the uniqueness corresponding to the student records in various
academic processes and associated online systems. USID code having 15 Character
combinations (Alpha numeric code) will be unique for each student throughout all
agriculture universities under NARES system.
National Agricultural Higher Education Project (NAHEP)
NAHEP has been formulated by ICAR with a total cost of US$ 165 million
(Rupees 1100 crores at the exchange rate of Rs. 66.75 = 1US$) for five years starting from
2017-18. The project is proposed on 50:50 cost sharing basis between the World Bank and the
Government of India, implemented at the Education Division, ICAR, New Delhi. Overall, the
project aims to develop resources and mechanism for supporting infrastructure, faculty and
student advancement, and providing means for bettergovernance and management of
agricultural universities, so that a holistic model can be developed to raise the
standard of current agriculturaleducation
system that provides more jobs and is entrepreneurship oriented and on par with the
global agriculture education standards