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Dr. Nagendra Sharma, Hon'ble Vice Chancellor Dr. Nagendra Sharma born on 5th September 1943 in a farmer family of Nalanda district, Bihar state. Did Bachelor degree in Veterinary Scienceand Animal Husbandry in 1966 from Ranchi University, Master’s degree in 1972 from Agra University and Doctoral in Poultry Science in the year 1980 from Rohilkhand University. He was awarded Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) from France in the year 1984. As First Head of the Division of Livestock Products Technology (LPT), established the research-development & teaching facilities in processing quality control of Livestock Products. Developed know-how for many products of milk and meat. His studies on biochemical changes in proteins & lipids due to processing, storage and marketing have contributed to basic and applied knowledge in the area of Food Science, food nutrition, human health, biotechnological areas for production of food and preservation of ecology. Worked
as Joint
Director (Academic)
and Dean
of Deemed University,
Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), Izatnagar from 1995 to 2001 and
contributed to human resource development. Also worked as Director, IVRI from
March 1999 to 2000. Having 30 years experience in teaching, research,
production, processing of milk, meat, poutry and fish products. Guided 15
Master’s and Doctoral scholars. Having more than 200 publications in journals
of repute. Recipients of K.U. Patel Memorial Award, 1973, GITS
Aarad (1996), Malika Trivedi IAAVR Award (1999) and Lifetime Achievements
Award for Veterinary profession in 2002 and Distinguished Veterinarian Award –
2004 for outstanding
research and professional contributions. Theses done under his guidance were
given Jawaharlal Nehru Award by ICAR. Fellow
of National Academy of Veterinary Sciences (India) & Fellow of Indian
Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Research (IAAVR).
Chairman of Food and Agriculture Division (FAD 56) of Bureau of Indian
Standard (BIS), Chairman Dairy Products and Equipments Section Committee, FAD 19
of BIS.
Working as member in Editorial Board of International Journal Meat
Sciences, Indian Journal of Food Science & Technology
and Indian Journal of Animal Sciences. Worked as Secretary, Indian
Association of Meat Scientists and Technologists and President of Indian
Association of small Ruminants.
As Coordinator, organized many international trainings under Colombo Plan, UNDP/FAO,
Commonwealth and other exchange programmes of Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka,
Bhutan etc. I was team leader and member of committee to many African countries,
UK, USA to organize quality education and improvement in social life and
livelihood security. Worked as Chairman - Perspective planning, Expenditure
Finance committee at various institutions. Developed Communication and
Information Systems at IVRI, CIRG, NDRI and SKUAST-Jammu. Established Centres
for Advanced studies in Nutrition, Physiology, Animal Products Technology and
Biotechnology. Organized many seminar, symposium and International programmes on
Agriculture Education. Worked as Member of Accreditation Board for evaluation of
educational standards in universities and SAUs. Widely
traveled to France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, U.K. , U.S.A.,Mozambique and many
other countries
to participate in various programmes of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry for
Food Production and Nutritional security. Worked as FAO consultant on meat
production and processing and environment improvement programmes in developing
countries. Worked
as Director, National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), Karnal mandated to
provide R&D support for higher milk production, greater productivity of
Dairy Industry, optimum use of agricultural land for fodder and food production
leading to the social, economic and environmental benefits. NDRI, being the
Deemed University also imparts under graduate and post-graduate education
programmes for human Resource development as per need of the dairy sector of the
nation. Also worked as Director for 2 years at Central Institute for Research on
Goats (CIRG), Makhdoom, Farah, Mathura (U.P) and developed package of practices
to help poor goat farmers. While working as Dean, of Indian Veterinary Research
Institute (Deemed University), Izatnagar, developed LAN, Internet & Intranet
facilities, learning resource center, International Hostel, Girl’s Hostel and
amenities for students. Anew Academic-cum-administrative building was also
planned at IVRI. Strengthened KVKs, initiated integrated village development
programmes focused on dairying and created separate facilities for
Biotechnological research at NDRI, Karnal.
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