Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya

Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya
বিধান চন্দ্র কৃষি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়

Motto	To improve socio-economic condition of the people related to agriculture and strengthen our food security
Type	Public
Established	1974
Chancellor	Sri Keshari Nath Tripathi, Governor of West Bengal
Vice-Chancellor	Prof. Asit Kumar Chakravarti
Location	Mohanpur, Haringhata, Nadia district, West Bengal, India
Campus	Rural
Affiliations	UGC, ICAR
Website	www.bckv.edu.in

Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, also known as BCKV and Bidhan Chandra Agricultural University, is an agricultural university in West Bengal, India. The university aims to provide higher education in theoretical and technical fields of Agriculture, Horticulture and Agricultural Engineering. It grants Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, Bachelor of Technology, Master of Technology and Doctorate degrees and, thus, provides modern and high value education to create scientists with the capability to work at national and international levels.

Administration

The chancellor is the Governor of West Bengal. The vice-chancellor as the chief executive of the University is supported by the registrar in administration, comptroller in financial management, deans of academic activities of the faculties, and directors for management of research and extension activities in agriculture, horticulture, and agricultural engineering. The vice-chancellor’s secretariat is staffed with a secretary to the vice-chancellor, one superintendent, two clerical assistants. and seven office attendants are a supportive unit in functioning the office.^[1]

Faculties

Faculty of Agriculture

The Faculty of Agriculture consisted of 17 departments, which has recently been reduced to 16 by merging two departments into one, all with specializations in teaching, research and extension for the development of agriculture in this state. One hundred students are admitted each year in the undergraduate courses on the basis of their performance at higher secondary (10+2) level. Apart from the general agricultural subjects, during their final year the students undertake specialized subjects along with a job-oriented course in the 7th semester as a module, and they undergo the training named ‘Rural Agricultural Work Experience’ (RAWE) during the 8th semester.^[2]

A panoramic view of the BCKV campus, just entering the main gate, on the left it is the Faculty of Agriculture building. On the right is the Administrative Building of the university.

The departments of this faculty are:

Department of Agronomy
Department of Agricultural Chemistry & Soil Science
Department of Agricultural Entomology
Department of Agricultural Chemicals
Department of Agriculture Biotechnology
Department of Soil & Water Conservation
Department of Plant Pathology
Department of Agricultural Meteorology & Physics

Department of Agricultural Extension
Department of Agricultural Statistics
Department of Agricultural Economics
Department of Genetics & Plant Breeding
Department of Plant Physiology
Department of Animal Science
Department of Agricultural Biochemistry
Department of Seed Science & Technology

Faculty of Horticulture

Faculty of Hort. BCKV

The Faculty of Horticulture was established in 1996. The objective of creation of the faculty was to initiate education and training in horticulture, to conduct need-based research for the development of horticulture in West Bengal, and to disseminate the technology for growing horticultural crops and post harvest management of produce.

Initially the faculty functioned with very limited space in the Faculty of Agriculture. Now it is housed in the newly constructed faculty building at Mohanpur. The instructional facilities include one horticultural farm at Mondouri and one nursery at Jagulia. The UG classes are held at Jagulia where a small instructional farm is maintained. The 150-acre farm at Mondouri that is the Horticultural Research Station provides facilities for practical and project works of M.Sc. and Ph.D. students for all the departments under this faculty.^[3]

There are five departments in this faculty:

Department of Floriculture & Landscaping
Department of Fruits & Orchard Management
Department of Post Harvest Technology
Department of Spices & Plantation Crops
Department of Vegetable Crops

Faculty of Agricultural Engineering

Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, BCKV

With the advancement of technology related to agricultural inputs coupled with the equipment and energy sources for their application, it has become essential to optimize these to increase production and conserve natural resources. Agricultural engineers today are required to provide technology for increasing crop production and for reducing post harvest losses and value additions through processing of produce. Increasing export opportunity in agricultural and allied industrial sector, besides diversification has put additional demand on agricultural engineering education to meet the growing requirement of food feed and fiber through efficient management of costly inputs. In the matter of this kind of improvement, agricultural engineering plays a very great role in further development of food productivity, agro-based industries, post-harvesting, food processing, soil and water engineering, irrigation and drainage, etc., through software-based latest technologies.

With the advancement of agriculture, gricultural engineering education has been gradually developed and taken shape through inclusion of theoretical as well as practical courses in multi-directional fields of Soil & Water Engineering, Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, Land and Water Resource Development and Management, Rural Engineering, Aqua-cultural Engineering, Farm Development and Management, Marketing, Marketing and Sales, Computer Applications, etc.^[4]

There are four departments in this faculty:

Department of Farm Machinery & Power
Department of Soil and Water Engineering
Department of Post Harvest Engineering
Department of Food Engineering

M.Tech and Ph.D programmes are available in Department of Farm Machinery & Power, Department of Soil and Water Engineering and Department of Food Engineering.

Directorate of Research

The Directorate of Research at Kalyani is the coordinating–monitoring headquarters of the research stations, sub-stations, units, sub-units and projects spread over the jurisdiction of the viswavidyalaya. A substantial number of research projects under programmes and funding modes operate on farmers’ fields (on-farm trials, FLD trials) at three major agro-climatic regions of the state and at other zones across West Bengal. Several experiments are conducted in a scientist–farmer participatory manner.^[5]

Directorate of Extension Education

The Directorate of Extension Education, in the Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, was created in 1994 through upgrading the Field Extension Wing, which took care of mainly the farm advisory services among a few villages surrounding the headquarters campus of the Viswavidyalaya. The upgrade attempt, though initiated late, was made in line with the mandate of the SAUs to organize "first line extension" activities to complement their research and education role, as well as to strengthen the efforts of the state extension machinery towards transferring proven and tested technological options for increased production and productivity. However, the manpower, as well as the infrastructure, corresponding to the enlargement of the mandated roles and responsibilities assumed by the directorate, consequent to its upgrade, continued to remain inadequate.

The roles and responsibilities of the Directorate of Extension Education were enlarged to accommodate the recommendations of the Randhawa Committee (1978) and the National Commission on Agriculture (1976). These recommendations, inter-alta, suggested a complementary role for the education and research for organizing the extension functions through the following sets of interrelated activities:

Technology Refinement and Upgradation
Technology Integration
Publication, Demonstration & Information Assistance
Participatory Techniques for Research and Extension
Training Module Development
Capacity Building^[6]

Directorate of Farms

The Directorate of Farms functions in the realm of agricultural research, education, and extension. The directorate has 1340.6 acres of land distributed in 12 farms. Its activities are listed below:

Support to research activities of AICRPs/AINPs and dissertation work of students.
Quality seed production. It was responsible for the production and distribution of 236 tonne quality seeds (Foundation/Certified/TL) of paddy, wheat, oilseeds and pulses during 2006-07 crop seasons of West Bengal.
Supervises production of planting materials of mango, cashew, ber and sweet orange at the RRS, Red & Laterite Zone, Jhargram, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal.
Maintenance of eco-friendly farms (6.00 ha) as well as one field conservatory of germplasms of non-conventional crops (like vanilla, pepper, ekangi, spices and medicinal crops, etc.) at the RRS, New Alluvial Zone, Gayeshpur, Nadia, West Bengal.
Monitoring of an experimental tea garden yielding good quality leaves at the RRS, New Alluvial Zone, Gayeshpur, Nadia, West Bengal.^[7]

Central Library

Central Library BCKV

The university is proud of its library system which was inaugurated in 1980 comprises only the Central Library at Mohanpur, Main campus. It is housed in a four storied building encompassing 5575 sq. m. floor space with a plan area of 7242 sq. m. having a good architectural beauty. To facilitate the teaching, research, and extension activities of an agriculture university, the library plays a pivotal role. The library has been striving to meet user demands by rendering services through manual and IT-based systems.

Services offered:

Lending counter
Book Bank
References & Referrals
Serials
CD-ROM Service
On the spot XEROX & Computer Print-out facility
High speed Internet facility
Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)
Membership to the teachers, students, research scholars, officers, non-teaching employees of the viswavidyalaya^[8]

Placement Cell

A fully equipped and proficient placement centre is being housed in the campus for the convenience of our graduating students. This year-round placement activity involves students in interactive counseling sessions with members of the placement cell to ensure their gainful placement in jobs before they leave the university.^[9]

Student life

Being a student of this prestigious university is mostly respected among the local people as well as other agriculture concerned personalities all over the state. Student life is pleasing but it is equally challenging in study and discipline due to the vast syllabus and the strict rules and regulations. The students are known as "BCKVians" in general.

Accommodation

Sir CV Raman Hall

Way to Faculty of Ag. BCKV

The student circle of this university is mainly hostel oriented, with very few students from nearby Haringhata, Kanchrapara & Kalyani each year of UG and PG, called Dayscholars. The majority of students as Hostellers belong to the different parts of the state, the country, even international students. There are several hostels according to criteria for accommodation inside the university campus.

Sir CV Raman Hall (UG Men's Hostel)
Sir JC Bose Hall (UG Men's Hostel)
Vidyasagar Hall (PG Men's Hostel)
Rabindra Abas (PG Men's Hostel)
Ladies' Hostel I
Ladies' Hostel V
International Students' Hostel

All the hostels have good study environments along with dining halls and common rooms featuring carrom boards, table tennis, magazines and newspapers, widescreen LCD TVs etc. for leisure hours. The hostels are being planned WiFi or Broadband connections for students.

Campus

The university has a well planned campus of magnificent aesthetics. It features well distributed greenery of decorative, educational and medicinal importance, has its own Medicinal & Aromatic Plants' Garden between the main building of the Faculty of Agriculture & the way to the Central Library.

All the faculty buildings, special purpose isolated laboratories, workshops and hostels are well connected through roads and at the center lies the Administrative Building. Each hostel is no more than a five-minute walk from the center area of the campus.

The campus is shared with the Faculty of Dairy Technology, West Bengal University of Animal & Fishery Sciences and the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata (IISER-K). A beautiful foot-bridge over a lake connects the IISER-K campus with the BCKV main campus. Several gates are available to enter into the main campus, shared IISER-K campus, hostels, Jagulia farm or Mondouri Teaching Farm as need basis. The campus houses a cafeteria, several canteens, a health centre, XEROX centers and a book shop.

The nearest railway station is Kanchrapara, roughly 8 km from the main campus connecting Sealdah and Howrah. The NH-34 passes within 1 km from it, connecting 50 km away Kolkata by road.

The Faculty of Agriculture, BCKV, in the evening.
The Administrative Building, BCKV.
Faculty of Ag. BCKV.
Administrative Building Lawn.
A Rainy Day Campus of BCKV.
Medicinal & Aromatic Plants' Garden, BCKV.
The Administrative Building under clouds.
Bidhan Chandra Statue in BCKV.
BCKV Campus.

Central Students Union

The university has three Students Unions for three faculties, which run unitedly as a form of Central Students Union (CSU or simply SU). It deals with every relevant issue of the students starting from education, research, welfare to job-oriented problems. As so, it is the common platform for manifestation of students voice, throughout the year. Moreover, it fosters among the students love and loyalty to the university, increases the growth of closer social and cultural reaction between teachers and students, and fosters a spirit of cooperative activities.

In tune with the ever-increasing provision of the university for quality education, the union has an ever-increasing reputation of maintaining healthy educational and cultural environment along with creating and sustaining awareness of democratic value on the campus.

Year 2012 schedule of Naihrit

Activities

Different indoor & outdoor games' competition.
Year round cultural programs: Nabarun - Ek notun alor udvash (Freshers' Welcome), Naihrit - Ek sangoskritik nobodigonto (Annual Social Function), Nisorgo - Mukhomukhi bosibar tore sesh bela (Farewell) & Conchorrenza - Intra University Cultural Competition.
Debates, lectures and seminars on different social and educational issues.
Campus cleaning & tree plantation program.
Inter University Quiz Competition.
Cine show.
Conducting movements for uplift of educational, hostel and welfare facilities and for job oriented problems.

Services

Cheap store: Students can buy their daily required articles at 20% rebate from these cheap stores of different hostels.
Benevolent fund: SU provides financial support to the poor students through this fund.
Academic cell: This is a study cum information cell which provides the students with valuable information regarding syllabi of different State and National level examinations like JRF, NET, CAT, WBCS etc., and also the study materials for those examinations along with general agriculture.
Students Union Library: Students get the opportunity of having fantastic literal collection and articles from this. Every member of SU is the member of this library.
Gymnasium: All the interested students have easy & free of cost access to this multi-instrument gym.

Publications

Prayas, annual magazine
Rakhibo Hridi Majhare, freshers guide^[10]

Notable alumni

Satarupa Sanyal, filmmaker

Gallery

Entrance of Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya.
Individual field plots for practical work at the Farm of BCKV.
Rice cultivation practical work, notably transplanting of the seedlings by the students of the Faculty of Agriculture.
Sunset at Jagulia Instructional Farm.
Paddy Research Plots of PG Students at the Farm of BCKV.
Way to Jagulia Instructional Farm.
Ladies' Hostel I, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya.
Prepared nursery saplings by Dapog method of rice cultivation by the students of the Faculty of Agriculture.
Honey for Sale by the Department of Agricultural Entomology to people.

References

External links

Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya official website

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State Universities	Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University Acharya Nagarjuna University Adikavi Nannaya University Alagappa University Aliah University Ambedkar University Delhi Anand Agricultural University Andhra University Anna University Annamalai University Aryabhatta Knowledge University Assam Agricultural University Assam Rajiv Gandhi University of Cooperative Management Assam Science and Technology University Assam Women's University Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hindi Vishwavidyalaya Awadhesh Pratap Singh University Ayush & Health Sciences University Chhattisgarh Baba Farid University of Health & Medical Sciences Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University Bangalore University Barkatullah University Bastar Vishwavidyalaya Berhampur University Bhagat Phool Singh Mahila Vishwavidyalaya Bharathiar University Bharathidasan University Bhupendra Narayan Mandal University Bidhan Chandra Krishi Vishwavidyalaya Bihar Agricultural University Biju Patnaik University of Technology Bilaspur Vishwavidyalaya Birsa Agricultural University Bodoland University Bundelkhand University Burdwan University Calcutta University Calicut University Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology University Chanakya National Law University Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology Chaudhary Bansi Lal University Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University Chaudhary Charan Singh University Chaudhary Devi Lal University Chaudhary Ranbir Singh University Chaudhary Sarwan Kumar Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University Chhattisgarh Kamdhenu Vishwavidyalaya Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University Children's University Cochin University of Science and Technology Cotton College State University Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University Davangere University Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences Maharaja Chhatrasal Bundelkhand University Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith Uttarakhand Sanskrit University Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University YMCA University of Science and Technology Yogi Vemana University

Colleges	A Ambition Institute of Technology Arya Mahila Mahavidyalaya B Babu Shivnath Agrawal College Bhavan's College, Andheri C C. H. M. College D DAV Post Graduate College G Government Maharaja P.G. College Guru Nanak English School, Varanasi Guru Nanak Khalsa College (King's Circle) H Harish Chandra Postgraduate College H.R. College of Commerce and Economics I Indian Institute of Management Indore Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University J Jai Hind College K Kishinchand Chellaram College M Mithibai College N Nagindas Khandwal College of Commerce and Economics Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics NES High School P Patkar-Varde College R Ramnarain Ruia College Ramniranjan Anandilal Podar College of Commerce and Economics Royal College of Science, Arts and Commerce Ruparel College S Sanpada College of Commerce and Technology Sathaye College Shri M.D. Shah Mahila College of Arts and Commerce SIES College of Arts, Science, and Commerce SIES College of Commerce and Economics Sophia College, Mumbai South Indians' Welfare Society College Sri Agrasen Kanya P.G. College St. Andrew's College, Mumbai St. Anne's High School, Orlem St. Xavier's College, Mumbai Subhash Chandra Mahavidyalaya Sunbeam College for Women Swami Vivekanand International School and Junior College Sydenham College T Thakur College of Science and Commerce U Udai Pratap Autonomous College V V. G. Vaze College Vasanta College for Women Vasant Kanya Mahavidyalaya VIVA College W Wilson College, Mumbai

Secondary Schools	B Besant Theosophical School C C.M. Anglo Bengali College Central Hindu Boys School Central Hindu Girls School S Sant Atulanand Convent School W W. H. Smith Memorial School

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