Campuses: The university has 3 campuses, viz. Fisheries College and Research Institute, Thoothukudi; Institute of Fisheries Technology, Ponneri, Chennai; and Institute of Fisheries Technology, Nagapattinam.

Academic programmes: It runs 4 programmes, viz. Bachelor of Fisheries Science; Master of Fisheries Science (10 disciplines); Doctor of Philosophy (7 disciplines); and Bachelor of Engineering in Fisheries Engineering (from 2015-16).

Research activities in various fields of fisheries are operated at the 3 colleges or institutes and 5 research centers. Peripheral research centres have been established for undertaking research activities in specific fields like ornamental fish culture, aquaculture system, tilapia farming, fresh-water aquaculture, marine finfish culture, and shrimp-brood development. The university has established state-of-art laboratory facilities for Sea-food safety and quality assurance, Aquaculture, Fisheries biotechnology, Aquatic animal health and Environment management, besides old library and fisheries museum (operating since 40 years). Currently the university operates externally funded projects costing Rs 19.35 crores.

The Extension activities and outreach programmes are undertaken at the colleges or institutes and 5 research centres of the university. The various extension activities include conduction of certificate courses, skill-development programmes, vocational training programmes, participation in exhibitions, demonstrations, farm-advisory services and bringing out extension publications for promoting fisheries.

The Agroforestry group in the College of Agriculture of the university organized a national seminar on 'Holistic development of agroforestry: Potential and policy issues' on 13 Feb. 2015. In the inaugural session of the seminar experts from International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, New Delhi; Central Agroforestry Research Institute, Jhansi; SHIATS, Allahabad; The ICAR as well as from Pantnagar university shared their views with the participants. Dr P.K. Nair, distinguished Professor and Nehru Fulbright Fellow from the USA, delivered the keynote address

A national workshop-cum-seminar on 'Precision farming: a boon for flower industry' was organized by Precision Farming Development Centre of Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture during 2-3 Mar. 2015. Total 165 farmers from various districts of Uttarakhand, officials of Horticulture Department of Uttarakhand Government and students of the college participated in the workshop. Resource persons from the ICAR institutes, PFDC, industry, etc. were invited to enlighten the participants

The NSS Cell of the university celebrated National Science Day- 2015 on the theme “Science for nation building”in the memory of the invention of “Raman effect” by internationally acclaimed Indian Nobel laureate physicist Sir C. V. Raman and spreading the message of importance of science and its application among the people.

Dr Syed Shabih Hassan, NSS Programme Co-ordinator, informs that the contributions of all other internationally renowned great Indian scientists were also highlighted as well

Shri Jasabhai Barad, Minister of Agriculture (State), Government of Gujarat; Dr A.R. Pathak, VC, and Dr A.Y. Desai, Director of Research. Total 190 scientists and 50 progressive farmers attended it. At the seminar 130 research papers were presented in 5 concurrent technical sessions.

A calf rally was organized by Cattle Breeding Farm, at village Loej (Junagadh) on 31 Jan. 2015 under the Krushi Vikas Varsh (2014-15) programme of Government of Gujarat. Dr A.R. Pathak, VC, inaugurated it by lighting the lamp. Mr Baldev Singh Vaghela, Dy SP, Mangrol, was chief guest. Dharmkishorji Swami - Shri of the Awaminarayan Temple, Loej, blesses the occasion. Dr A.R. Pathak, in his presidential address, explained the importance of animal production, especially of cattle, and the role of university in the upliftment of livestock owners and rural people.

The ninth DUS review meeting of Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights, Government of India, New Delhi, was held at the university, during 9-10 Mar. 2015. Dr A.R. Pathak, VC presided over the meeting. The other dignitaries present were: Dr N.K. Krishna Kumar, DDG (Hort.), ICAR, New Delhi; Dr J.S. Chauhan, ADG (Seeds), ICAR; Dr R.R. Hanchinal, Chairperson, PPV & FRA, New Delhi; Dr C.J. Dangaria, VC, NAU, Navsari; Dr P.M. Salimath, VC, UAS, Raichur; Dr S.A. Patil, former Director, IARI, New Delhi; Dr K.E. Lawande, former VC, BSKKV, Dapoli; and Dr R.C. Agrawal, Registrar, PPV and FRA, New Delhi. More than 85 scientists from various DUS-testing centres of the country participated in the review meeting.

A brain-storming session on “Establishment of cow sanctuary in Gujarat” was inaugurated by Shri Babubhai Bokhiria, Minister of Agriculture, Co-operation, Animal Husbandry, Fisheries, Cow Breeding and Water Resources (except Kalpasar), Government of Gujarat, on 28 Feb. 2015 at Gandhinagar. Overall 44 participants were registered in this scientific forum. Dr A.R. Pathak, in his keynote address laid emphasise on the need to conserve indigenous germplasm to benefit the dairy farmers. Shri Babubhai Bokhiria released the souvenir prepared for the occasion and the magazine of College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry.

A Training programme on “Life skills and personality development” was conducted during 16-18 Mar. 2015 for the P.G. students of Department of Biotechnology, wherein 54 PG students of the department participated. During the training programme students learned various aspects of life skills for personality development which will be useful for the holistic development of their personality. Dr A.M. Parakhia, Director, Extension Education, inaugurated the training programme. Dr A.R. Pathak, VC, in his valedictory address asked the students to assimilate the knowledge to develop integrated personality.

surveillance and research in the Asia-Pacific Region, Kunming, P.R. China, during 3-4 Mar. 2015. She was the only scientist invited from India for this meeting.
The meeting was organised by Dr Zhang Yuming, DG, Agricultural Department of Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China, in collaboration with Dr Jef Hammond and Dr Peter Kirkland, Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute, Australia; Dr Peter Martin, Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, the UK and Dr Li Huachun, DG of Yunnan Tropical and Subtropical Animal Virus Diseases Laboratory, Yunnan Animal Science and Veterinary Institute, P.R. China. It was hosted by Agricultural Department of Yunnan Province.
Dr Sushila Maan presented the Indian perspective of research on these pathogens. She informed the delegates about the achievements, laboratory facilities, capabilities and technical expertise of faculty.

A renowned Virologist Prof. Benedict Kaufer from Institute of Virology, Free University of Berlin, Germany, visited the university. He met Maj. Gen. (Dr) Shrikant, VC, and discussed about future collaboration between these institutes. The VC presented him a memento.
Prof. Kaufer also met Dr Ravindra Sharma, Director of Research; Dr Gurdial Singh, Dean CoVSc; and other Heads of Departments and discussed about the research on animal viruses.

A mahila sammelan on “Women empowerment through animal husbandry” was organized at the university in which Ch. Birender Singh, Central Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, was present as the chief guest.
In this programme more than 800 rural women from different parts of Haryana participated. In addition, some of the progressive ladies working in the area of livestock entrepreneurship were also present. Ch. Birender Singh congratulated the VC for such social initiative:

Ch. Birender Singh said that women are contributing in every aspect in the society. He called for ensuring active participation of rural women in the field of animal husbandry, and pointed out that the society has to change the mentality towards women. He released a book written by the university faculty and he also started an 'Android mobile phone app' to help the animal farmers. He informed that Government of India has established a fund of Rs 2,000 crores for providing loan to weaker sections of society. Maj. Gen. (Dr) Shrikant, VC, said that there are ample opportunities in the field of animal husbandry. Rural women can increase their profit manifolds by adopting scientific methods and marketing their milk products. He said that Haryana State can earn Rs 1800 crores simply by increasing the milk yield per animal by half a litre.

The Maharashtra State Inter-University Research Convention was organized during 21-23 Jan. 2015 at Nagpur. H.E. Shri Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao, the Governor, Maharashtra State and the Chancellor of MAFSU, Nagpur, was the chief guest; and Prof. K.M.L. Pathak, DDG, (Animal Science), ICAR, New Delhi; was the guest of honour at the inauguration. Total 572 students (291 male and 281 female) from 19 Universities of Maharashtra participated in the event. Dr V.M. Katoch, Secretary, DHR, and DG, ICMR, New Delhi, was the chief guest; and Padma Vibhushan Dr Anil Kakodkar, DAE Homi Bhabha Chair

On this occasion Dr Mayee said that it is needed to give more impetus towards agricultural industrialization and small-scale agricultural industries to increase the production of crops to achieve our economic goal.
Dr Shivajirao Deshmukh said that we are self-sufficient in foodgrain production due to different technologies developed by agricultural universities and positive response of the farmers.
Dr Tukaram More, VC, MPKV, Rahuri said that the agricultural universities face lots of problems while conducting research, hence it is necessary to provide self- initiation rights to the agricultural universities and colleges.

The Tenth annual convocation of the university was held on 15 Jan. 2015. H.E. Shri O.P. Kohli, Governor, Gujarat State and Chancellor of the university, presided over the function, Dr H.S. Gupta, DG, Borlaug Institute of South Asia, New Delhi was the chief guest; and Shri Babubhai Bokhiriya, Minister of Agriculture and Cooperation, Government of Gujarat, was the guest of honour. Dr C.J. Dangaria, VC, delivered the welcome speech and appraised the house about all-round development of the university in the field of education, research and extension. He informed the house about sanctioning of new College of Fisheries at Navsari by Government of Gujarat. Shri Babubhai Bokhiriya congratulated the outgoing students and impressed them that our 65% youth can play a great role in the development of the nation, especially in agriculture. He informed the gathering about various schemes launched by Government of Gujarat for strengthening agriculture, and about celebration of the year 2014-15 as “Krishi Vikas Varsh”.
Dr H.S. Gupta, chief guest of the ceremony, in his convocation address laid stress on the role of agriculture sector in nutritional security, need of doubling the water-use efficiency, improving the productivity of pulse and oilseed crops, threat of climate change, quality-seed production, strengthening of tissue-culture facilities, development of farm women-friendly technologies and minimizing the pre- and post- harvest losses. H.E. Shri O.P. Kohli, President of the function, congratulated the students for successful completion of various degree programmes and advised them to serve the nation with holistic approach for all-round development. During the convocation various degrees were conferred to total 378 students, including 185 B.Sc. students, 157 M.Sc. students and 36 Ph.D. students. Moreover, 29 medals including 11 medals for PG studies and 18 medals for UG studies were awarded to 11 girls and 8 boys student for excelling in the academics. .

A Global Social Science Conference on Management of Sustainable Livelihood Systems was held during 14-17 Feb. 2015 at Bhubaneswar, organized jointly by International Society of Extension Education and Orissa Society of Extension Education of the university. Shri P. Maharathy, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and ARD, Government of Odisha, inaugurated it. Dr Noel P Magor, IRRI, Philipines was the guest of honour and Dr Manoranjan Kar, VC, presided. The conference was attended by 300 social scientists and researchers from India as well as abroad.

16 Jan. 2015. The visit was a part of their Nebraska Leadership Education and Action Development Programme, headed by Dr Terry Hejny, Director, Nebraska LEAD Programme, Nebraska Agricultural Leadership Council. The delegation interacted with the senior officials and the scientists from the University who familiarized them with the genesis and research programmes of the PAU.

The first convocation of the university was held on 19 Feb 2015 graced by H.E. Dr K. Rosaish, Governor of Tamil Nadu and Chancellor of the university. Prof Baskaran Manimaran, VC, welcomed the gathering and presented the report of the university. Dr C. Vasudevappa, VC, University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Shivamoga, Karnataka was the chief guest. In his convocation address he informed that this university has aligned its institutional mandates and functionality in accordance with the growth in the fisheries and aquaculture sector with reinforced organizational effort.
Dr S. Vijay Kumar, IAS, Secretary to Government of Tamil Nadu, Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries declared institution of 6 endowments for academic achievements.
Total 76 graduates were conferred the degrees at the convocation (1 Ph.D, 31 Master of Fisheries Science and 44 Bachelor of Fisheries Science), degrees would be sent to the 23 students through post. Dr K. Ratna Kumar, Registrar read out the names of 23 medal winners who were awarded for academic excellence and performance.

The fifth annual convocation of the UAS, Raichur, was held on 4 Mar. 2015. Padma Bhushan Dr Rajendra Singh Paroda, Chairman, Trust for Advancement of Agricultural Sciences, New Delhi was the chief guest. Shri Vajubhai Vala, Governor of Karnataka, and Chancellor of the university, presided over the function. Sri Krishna Byre Gouda, Minister of Agriculture, Government of Karnataka, and Pro-chancellor of the university; Dr P.M. Salimath, VC, members of Board of Management, officers of the university, staff, students, dignitaries as well as press and media persons attended the convocation in great strength.

Dr R.S. Paroda, in his convocation address, stressed on the need of nutritional security, He said: “having achieved self-sufficiency on the food front, our concern now is nutrition and health of our people. We need another revolution in agriculture for nutritional security. We cannot overlook the fact that the numbers of protein malnutrition children in south Asia is higher than in sub-Saharan Africa”. Besides, a significant increase in foodgrain production, with a buffer stock of more than 50 million tonnes, people below the poverty line have no economic access to it. Hence, we need to reduce the production cost and increase the yield.
H.E. Shri Vajubhai Vala conferred degrees to 171 undergraduate, 106 Post- graduate, and 10 to Ph.D. students. Several institutional awards were also presented during the occasion.

The UAS, Raichur and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai signed memorandum of understanding on 2 Jan. 2015 to carry out research on radiation technology. Dr B.S. Janagoudar, Registrar signed the MoU on behalf of UAS, Raichur with Dr S.P. Kale, Associate Director, BARC, Mumbai.

Safety and Quality Control, and Environmental Hygiene. Dr Simranpreet Kaur, Assistant Professor, won “Dr S.P. Singh Best Research Paper Award” for her paper on Group A rotaviruses in humans and animals. Dr Abhishek Gaurav won “Dr V.N. Bachhil Young Scientist award” for his Ph.D. research work on antibiotic residues. Dr Lokesh K.M., Ph.D. scholar, bagged the best poster award for the research work conducted on Japanese encephalitis.
Dr J.P.S. Gill was re-elected as Vice- President of Indian Association of Veterinary Public Health Specialists for tenure of 3 years. Two Assistant Professors of the department; Dr Simranpreet Kaur and Dr J.S. Bedi, were elected as Members of Executive Committee of IAVPHS.

The Karnataka-based Life Sciences Foundation India conferred its National Excellence Award 2014-15 on Dr Hari Mohan Saxena, Professor of Immunology, Department of Veterinary Microbiology, of the university. Padma Shree Dr Nityanand, former Director, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow presented him the award at National Conference on Nanosciences, Nanotoxicology and Nanoinformatics held at the Integral University, Lucknow. Dr Saxena was bestowed with this honour for his innovation in diagnosis of infectious diseases patented by him in the USA, China and South Africa. The innovation was earlier selected among top 100 innovations in the India Innovation Growth Programme by FICCI, Indo-US Science and Technology Forum, DST & Stanford University, the USA.
The novel superagglutination test developed by Dr Saxena and his team addresses the two major problems of false negative and false positive results obtained with the conventional slide or plate agglutination tests, and the kits based on them. The innovative concepts behind the superagglutination test are applicable not only to brucellosis but to other infectious diseases of animals and humans like Salmonellosis, AIDS etc also.

Dr S.S. Sikka, Senior Nutritionist and Head, Department of Animal Nutrition, and a recipient of Shiksha Rattan Puruskar-2007, was awarded Dr S.Z. Qasim, Medal-2015 for his outstanding contributions in the field of Animal nutrition. Dr Sikka acted as Vice- President of Animal Nutrition Association during 2010- 11, and presently he is Vice-President of Indian Academy of Veterinary Nutrition and Animal Welfare. The award was conferred on him in the inaugural session of the 17th Indian Agriculture Scientists' and Farmers' Congress on “Agri- innovation for enhancing production and rural employment held at Allahabad under the auspices of Bioved Research Institute of Agriculture and Technology.

LUVAS honoured students who got awarded by Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) in Delhi. Maj Gen (Dr) Shri Kant, SM, VSM (Retd) congratulated the students- Kanisth Batra, Garima Kansal, Ritu, Naveen and Manisha and presented them cash prizes. Kanisth Batra, a Ph.D. scholar and Garima Kansal, student of BVSc & AH were facilitated with appreciation certificates recently in Delhi. Both the students were also invited in the Republic Day function and witnessed the event from VVIP seats in the Prime Minister's Box. Ritu won the Gold Medal in HACKS; Naveen got 4th position in HACKS in RVC republic day parade.

Prof A.K. Misra, VC, received the prestigious “Dr P. Bhattacharya Memorial Award” of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences for the Biennium 2013-14. The award consists of citation, gold medal and cash prize of Rs 1 lakh. It was presented to him at the inaugural session of the 12th Agricultural Science Congress held at, NDRI, Karnal during 3-6 Feb. 2015.

producing the world's first cloned buffalo calves, besides other achievements in genomics of early embryonic development under his mentorship. As Director of NAARM, Dr Goswami made significant contributions to Human Resource Development and Capacity Development initiatives of the ICAR. During his long research and academic career he won several awards including Jawaharlal Nehru Award, Dr G. B. Singh Memorial Award Dr M. S. Swaminathan Award and Fellowship of National Academy of Dairy Science (India), as well as the FAO, UNDP Fellowships, and Visiting Scientist Fellowships etc. Dr Goswami has visited several countries including Nepal, Ireland, England, the USA, Russia on different academic assignments.

Dr M. Premjit Singh joined as VC, Central Agricultural University, Imphal on 27 Mar. 2015. He passed his M.Sc. (Life Sciences) in 1981 from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He obtained his M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Zoology from Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla. Dr Singh started his service career in the erstwhile Manipur Agricultural College, Imphal as Assistant Professor (Entomology) in 1986. There he became Associate Professor (1990), Professor (1998) and Director of Extension Education (2009). Besides professional positions, he acted there as Registrar and Research Co-ordinator (Oilseed crops) for more than a decade. Young Scientist award was conferred to Dr Singh in 1992 by DST, New Delhi for his research project entitled “Studies on bee pollination of oilseed crops”. He undertook 6 research projects funded by external agencies and supervised 5 Ph.D. and 10 M.Sc. (Agric.) theses. He attended 8 international conferences, 77 national conferences and 5 training courses. To his credit he has 99 research papers, 55 research communications, 7 books, 11 technical bulletins and many popular articles. He is the Chief Editor of CAU Farm Magazine and CAU Kisan Diary, published in 7 languages. He has vast experience in North East Agriculture and is member of many high-level committees, expert groups, professional bodies, university bodies etc. Dr Singh developed or identified 14 novel technologies, concepts, methodologies in the area of plant protection. For the resource poor farmers of North-Eastern Hill Region, his exemplary contributions are: large-scale demonstration on “Zero tillage cultivation of rapeseed-mustard in rice fallow ” covering more than 1000 ha for 4 consecutive years; front-line demonstration on location-specific IPM in rice using gall midge and blast-resistant rice variety in 200 ha for 5 consecutive years, construction of water harvesting structures in farmers' fields with micro-irrigation facilities; and quality seed production of rice and oilseeds under seed-village concept.

Dr Magala Rai joined as VC, at G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar on 21 Mar. 2015. He is the 22nd VC of the university. Dr Mangala Rai, a graduate of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, is a renowned plant breeder, researcher, policy maker and an eminent agriculture scientist. He was Secretary, Department of Agricultural Research and Education, Government of India; and Director-General, ICAR, New Delhi. He shouldered numerous national and international responsibilities with path-breaking attainments, spread over 3 decades. In recognition of his contribution to science and society, Dr Rai was conferred Doctorate of Sciences (honoris causa) by 16 universities, including Pantvarsity