Existing ICAR National Professors in the ICAR-AU System

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This scheme was conceptualized to promote excellence by establishing and nurturing novel school of thought and developing strong centres of agricultural research and education around outstanding scientists through 10 positions of National Professorial Chairs and 25 positions of National Fellows. The scheme of National Professorial Chairs includes the prestigious BP Pal Chair in Genetics and Plant Breeding at IARI, New Delhi and Norman Borlaug Chair in International Agriculture located in the ICAR-AU system. Their contributions in the form of technologies, patents, copyrights has immensely benefited the knowledge pool of the country.

S. No	Name of the Professor	Institution	Title of the Project	Tenure of the Project						Contact Details
				I		II		III		Tel.	Mobile	E-mail
				From	To	From	To	From	To	Tel.	Mobile	E-mail
1	Dr. N.K. Singh *(B.P. Pal Chair in Genetics and Plant Breeding at ICAR-IARI)*	ICAR-National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, New Delhi	Allele mining for agronomically important genes in wild rice germplasm and stress tolerant landraces of rice growing in the hot spots	13.01.2010	12.01.2015	13.01.2015	12.01.2020	13.01.2020	14.10.2023	011-25860186	9911268915	xnksingh@nrcpb.org
2	Dr. Bidyut Kumar Sarmah *(Norman Borlaug Chair in International Agriculture)*	DBT-AAU Centre, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat	Development of cisgenic chickpea (Cicer arietinum L) resistant to pod borers (Helicoverpa armigera)	01.03.2016	28.04.2021	-	-	-	-	0376-2310190	9435091484	bidyutsarmah@aau.ac.in
3	Dr. Pratap Singh Birthal	ICAR-National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research, Pusa, New Delhi 110 012	Research priorities and policies for climate resilient agriculture	27.02.2017	26.02.2022	-	-	-	-	011-25842665	9910052752	ps.birthal@icar.gov.in psbirthal@yahoo.com

Guidelines for ICAR National Professor Scheme