A brainstorming
seminar was organised by the NCAP on the occasion of
the ICAR's celebration of the 50th year of
Independence of India. The moving force behind the seminar was Dr. R S Paroda, Director General, ICAR. We
are extremely grateful to Dr. Paroda for his keen
interest and constant encouragement to us for this event. Dr. Mruthyunjaya, Assistant Director General (ESM) took a very
personal interest and continuously advised us on both organisatioal
as well as professional matters. We are thankful to Dr. Mruthyunjaya.
Number of the
participants from various part of the country attended the seminar and offered
valuable contributions, which benefited us immensely. We are grateful to all of
them.
Dr. Dayanatha Jha, Director, NCAP
took great interest and continuously guiding us to make the event a success.
Dr. Jha also made several rounds of comments and
suggestions in the preparation of the proceedings of the seminar. I offer my
sincere gratitude to Dr. Jha. I am thankful to Dr. S Selvarajan and Dr. Promod K
Joshi, Principal Scientists, Mr. Ravi Shankar, Scientist, NCAP and several of my other colleagues
for their kind help and suggestions at various stages of the seminar.
B C Barah
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