Chandra Shekhar Azad

The Department of Agricultural Extension was founded in year 1960 as an independent unit of teaching in the formerly known Govt. Agriculture College (later on found the status of C.S. Azad University of Agri. & Tech.). The objective was teaching students in the discipline of Agricultural Extension to generate manpower for helping farming community and raising agricultural production and molding attitude about innovations, technologies and activities launched in C.D. & NES blocks under five year Plan programme in the country. Department independently organized various supportive programmes for farmers until construction of Directorate of Extension the under University. The Deparment was organized demonstrations on farmer’s fields, Agri-exhibitions at the College level & farmers gosthies at village level. Major objective of the department is to teaching; impart training and building capacity of the students to bring desirable changes in mindset, to obtain optimum and sustainable returns. Department initiated Gaon ki Oar programme for practical orientation of students in actual village situation, ICAR the apex body in field of agricultural education and research appreciated the initiative a lot and inline to the programme, Lab to Land and Student READY/ RAWE programmes were introduced with experiential learning module. Presently department is running Undergraduate, postgraduate and Ph.D. Courses.