Roundtable Session

on

“Role of Agricultural Extension in India”

December 8, 2017, Magnolia Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi

Programme

09:30 – 10:00 am

Registration / Tea, Coffee

10:00 – 10:10 am

Welcome Remarks

Rajat Kathuria, Director & Chief Executive, ICRIER

10:10 – 10:20 am

Opening Remarks

Ashok Gulati, Infosys Chair Professor for Agriculture, ICRIER

10:20 – 11:30 am

Session- 1:

Chair:   Sanjeev Gupta (IAS), President & Chief Executive Officer, National e-Governance Division (NeGD) and Former Joint Secretary (Agriculture Extension), Ministry of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers’ Welfare

Co-Chair:   
A. K. Singh, Deputy Director General, Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR)

Presentation by:

Ashok Gulati, Chair Professor, ICRIER

Anisha Samantara, Research Assistant, ICRIER

Prerna Terway, Research Associate, ICRIER

Pravesh Sharma, Senior Visiting Fellow, ICRIER

Discussant

Siraj Hussain, Senior Visiting Fellow, ICRIER

Rasheed Sulaiman, Director, Centre for Research on Innovation and Science Policy (CRISP)

11:30 – 12 noon

Open Discussion / Q&A

12:00 – 12:15 pm

Tea / Coffee Break

12:15 – 01:15 pm

Discussion on the experience of the selected states on Agriculture Extension

Sunil Kumar Singh, Agriculture Production Commissioner, Government of Bihar.

01:15 pm onwards

Lunch