NAHEP Component 2

Investment in ICAR Leadership in Agricultural Higher Education - would finance the carrying out of institutional reforms within ICAR in order to enhance ICAR's effectiveness in coordinating, guiding and managing agricultural higher education and its interactions with AUs and key stakeholders nationwide through interventions that increase the quality and relevance of agricultural higher education. As ICAR is responsible for national coordination and quality assurance of agricultural higher education, the component would leverage ICAR's comparative advantage in assessing systemic challenges across the ICAR-AU System and incubating solutions.

Components of NAHEP 2

The components finance goods, training, consultant services and non consultant services and incremental operating costs and include:

  • Assessing options in the administration and award of ICAR’s technical and financial assistance to AUs
  • Providing assistance to participating AUs for the development of IDPs, CAASTs and Innovation Plans
  • Establishing partnerships with globally recognized agricultural higher education institutions
  • Developing digital information systems for agricultural data collection, analysis and dissemination
  • Improving curricula review processes and methods to consolidate and disseminate global best-practices in agricultural education
  • Assisting agricultural universities to strengthen their linkages with industry
  • Improving the all-India entrance examination in agriculture, including an on-line national examination system
  • Adopting next-generation management systems covering information, procurement, contract and financial management areas
  • Coordinating an External Advisory Panel of renowned agricultural education experts
  • Promoting the establishment of centers for career development at agricultural universities
  • Structuring dialogue with State governments to catalyze their participation in raising the quality and relevance of agricultural higher education

Objectives & Activities

ICAR-IASRI
  • To develop ICT infrastructure as technical assistance to AUs
  • To develop digital information systems for agricultural education, data collection, analysis and dissemination
  • To develop and implement next-generation management systems covering information, procurement, contract and financial management areas

ICAR-NIAP
  • To develop the mechanism for online all-India entrance examination system in agriculture


ICAR-NAARM
  • To establish partnerships with globally recognized agricultural higher education institutions
  • To promote the establishment of career development centre at agricultural universities
  • To improve curricula review processes and methods to consolidate and disseminate global best practices in agricultural education
  • To assist agricultural universities in strengthening their linkages with industry
  • To structuring dialogue with state government to catalyse their participation in raising the quality and relevance of agricultural higher education


ICAR-IASRI

  • Enabling faculties and students to utilize state-of-art IT infra in par with global standards and improve agricultural education efficiency and management of various university academic and research processes with digital interventions

  • Increase competitiveness, networking and collaboration among agricultural universities

ICAR-NAARM

  • Component 2 of NAHEP will create an enabling environment to nurture partnerships/linkages with higher education institutions, industry, governments across the globe for enhancement of the performance of agricultural higher education in the country

ICAR-NIAP

  • Help students and faculties to avail the usage of cloud platforms and take examination at one time across the country, it can further help in reducing time for evaluation and scoring

Contact Us

National Agricultural Higher Education Project
Krishi Anusandhan Bhawan - II, New Delhi - 110 012 INDIA
Contact No. - 011-25848772

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