About NAHEP

NAHEP is designed to strengthen the national agricultural education system in India with overall objective to provide more relevant and high quality education to agricultural university students. This programme has been promoting efficiency and competiveness through changes in working mechanism of agricultural universities, raising the teaching and research standards through improved research and teaching infrastructure and enhanced faculty competency and commitments, and making agricultural education more attractive to talented students.

There are four key components under NAHEP, namely; Institutional Development Plan (IDP), Centres for Advanced Agricultural Sciences and Technology (CAAST), ICAR to support excellence in agricultural universities (AUs), and ICAR Innovation Grants to AUs.

Centres for Advanced Agricultural Science and Technology is awarded to  accredited AUs. This Centre would be multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary in nature for teaching, research and extension on critical and emerging issues of agriculture.

The key provisions under CAAST include research and teaching equipment, faculty and scientist development fellowships, postgraduate student scholarships, and the costs associated with twinning arrangements with similar centers both nationally and internationally.

The focus of CAAST hinges upon development of multidisciplinary faculty, innovative approaches to teaching and research, technology development and commercialization.

• High emphasis on industry orientation of agricultural science and technology generation system through strengthened association and partnership will be laid under this Component.
• It is envisaged that the support and efforts under CAAST would strengthen agricultural higher education with better employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for agriculture graduates.
• Master and Ph.D. students sandwich program to facilitate student exposure to national and international universities.
• Modern research facilities to conduct high-quality advanced research by faculty and students.
• Faculty upgradation through international and national training with mentor universities.
• Targeted research collaboration with national and international centres of excellence to increase both faculty/student productivity and research quality and relevance.
• Adjunct/Visiting Professorship opportunities to stimulate innovation in ongoing PG research and to mentor PG students.
• Distinguished Lecture Series/ Special lectures to bring about much needed vibrancy in the academic atmosphere and inspire students and faculty to perform better.
• Collaboration with private sector, industry and civil society organizations related to the specialized areas to develop market oriented programs and produce industry ready graduates.
• Conducting capacity building programmes for students, faculty and research scholars across the country

Project Beneficiaries

Students would benefit from:

• A movement from teaching to learning-centred education, leveraging ICT and external partnerships
• Piloting effective stakeholder participation in curricula development, pedagogy options and course evaluation
• Increased equity in educational access through vocational and technical certificate programs
• An overall improvement in the learning and academic environment that would both expand and sharpen their skill set needed for future employment.
  
  

Faculty would benefit from:

• Increased collaboration among Indian AUs and with other universities globally to raise research quality and its linkage to educational quality and relevance
• Training and capacity-building to improve the delivery of education and its learning outcomes.
  
  

Institute would benefit:

• Governance & transparency
• Infrastructural development
• Productive campus culture and
• Intensive use of technology enabled learning

The investments under CAAST sub component 1b contribute more towards enhancing the relevance of the teaching and research. The CAAST at JNKVV is established on

“Skill Development to Use Spatial Data for Natural Resources Management in Agriculture”

Inter-Disciplinary Team to execute the project

Objectives at JNKVV

• To build basic capacity for using RS & GIS techniques applied for betterment of Natural Resource Management particularly in Agriculture and allied sectors.
• To identify appropriate techniques for integration of spatial and ground data to realize problems related to land, water and vegetation.
• To develop user friendly spatial data products using identified technologies for policy makers, researchers, field workers and farmers.

Applications in Agriculture

Activities

• Awareness program for Students
• Introductory program for administrators
• Educative learning for executives
• Capacity building for Scientists, Teachers, officials, students and young professionals
• National and international Training of faculty for knowledge upgradation
• Problem identification in realizing process with satellite and ground data with techniques available.
• Making the spatial data maps more precise and accurate using fine resolution data available with present satellite systems.
• Providing research fellowship to the students undergoing master and doctoral degree involved to undertake research project on related aspects.
• Preparation of Theme based maps
• Preparation of Integrated maps for decision making
• To develop user friendly spatial data products using identified technologies for policy makers, researchers, field workers and farmers

Nodal Officers for ICAR-NAHEP –CAAST JNKVV

Nodal Officers GRM for CAAST JNKVV Jabalpur

Project Monitoring and Evaluation (PME)Cell for CAAST JNKVV Jabalpur