26th Institute Research Council meeting
26th Institute Research Council meeting
The twenty sixth Institute Research Council (IRC) meeting of ICAR – Central Coastal Agricultural Research Institute was held during 1st to 3rd September, 2015. The meeting was chaired by Dr. Narendra Pratap Singh, Director of the institute. He welcomed all the scientists and highlighted about the importance of this meeting as this institute was upgraded for coastal region. He emphasized for transfer of technology to the farmer’s field and publication of research findings in quality journal. The scientists from different sections made their deliberations on the actions taken on recommendations of last IRC meeting and research activities carried out during the last one year. Six newly joined scientists presented their new research project proposals. The chairman reviewed all the projects thoroughly and made critical comments for the further improvement of projects. In the concluding remarks he appreciated the scientists on research work progress during the last one year, emphasized on the need based research which is relevant to the coastal region by each scientist. In this regard, he also stressed upon justification of involvement of CO – PI in the projects and instructed that from next time all CO – PIs will have to present their achievement like PI of the project to intensify their visibility in the project. He also mentioned timely submission of RPP of different projects by the scientists. He urged the rigorous on farm trials through KVK for effective transfer of technologies to different types of users. The programme was coordinated and concluded with the vote of thanks by Dr. S K Das, Principal Scientist, Animal Science Section and Member Secretary of Institute Research Council Meeting.