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FOLIO   AGR-1                 DR MAHESH CHANDRA AGRAWAL

FATHER'S NAME              LATE SHRISHRIRAM BANSAL

DATE & PLACE OF BIRTH     26TH APRIL,1944 ; FIROZABAD ,U.P.

DEGREE                                                 YEAR                   VETY    COLLEGE
BVSC & AH                                              1967                          JABALPUR
MVSC                                                         1974                          JABALPUR
Ph.D.                                                           1978                          JABALPUR
MARRIAGE                             28.6.1973           MRS VEENA AGRAWAL

POST                    RETIRED AS DEAN,VETY COLL,JBP

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Tuesday 25 February 2020

29TH NCVP conference at Jabalpur veterinary college

25th Feb2020

After about 22 years , Jabalpur Veterinary college has again become a venue for hosting 29th National congress of Veterinary Parasitology and a national symposium. It was in 1994, that the Department of Parasitology,arranged a national congress and then after four years, it arranged another conference in 1998. Afterwards , there was a great gap with many changes occurring in the ensuing period. On university side, this oldest college (established on 8th July1948) which was earlier under the Agricultural University (Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya,Adhartal,Jabalpur),became a constituent college with formation of Madhya Pradesh Pashu Chikitsa University in 2009 ,which was rechristened as Nanaji Deshmukh University of Veterinary Science. On department side, many persons retired from the post and some of them are deceased. The very important name came to my mind is of Dr H.L.Shah who has been doyen in this field. This department also lost first Dr R.K.Chodhary in April ,2006 and then Dr R.K.Sharma.We have also lost Dr SC Joshi of this department. The department attains many laurels during this period -important one was award of Emeritus Scientist to Dr M.C.Agrawal which became first in the Faculty after 10 years. Dr M.C.Agrawal  who retired as Dean of Veterinary College in 2005, became Board Member of the newly formed  Chattisgarh Kamdhenu Veterinary University,Durg for four years. In this ensuing period, direction of research Also changed and some important books in Parasitology were published by the retired faculty members.
I am herewith loading some photographs of the conference which have been taken from my mobile.















  

Tuesday 30 April 2019

CRAZY FOR DOING SOCIAL WORK-

This may be a good gesture to bar old candidates for contesting parliamentary elections. But when a party,particularly BJP (other parties are happily giving ticket to their old colleagues-even after crossing 80 years of age) , denies them ticket due to old age, the person happily swift to other political party which is willing to give them ticket for contesting parliamentary post. This candidate wastes no time in criticizing their old party; how much suffocation is there; it was very difficult to survive in such atmosphere etc

It may appear funny to many people about their utterances when denied the ticket. All of them , perhaps without any exception,bark that they want to do social work ; they are after social work; want to uplift our poor people hence it is necessary for them to contest for a ticket. This means , the political party should be ready to sponsor them till they are in this mortal world. And how much they are eager to share their life time experience in upliftment of the poor public. But if you search their past history , you will not find any important public work which they did except that comes under their parliamentary work.
As per a report, many parliamentarians are only High school pass while only very few are graduates or exceptionally holding a doctorate degree. In contrast , if you see faculty members of any educational institute , all of them are holding a Ph.D. degree or are pursuing to obtain the same. No doubt they are expert in their field and contributing their mite in the field of specialization. But they do have a limit and in India all Education Institutes terminate their job as soon as they attain a age of 65 years . So is the case with our Judiciary. At times , it is difficult to find their substitute and the field remains unattended many years.

Now compare these specialized persons who retire at the age of 65 years of age while our parliamentarians are reluctant to retire even after the age of 75 years ?

will our intellectuals give a deep thought over this contrasting situation ?


Sunday 25 November 2018

HUMAN RESOURCES IN VETERINARY PROFESSION IN MADHYA PRADESH

The veterinary profession in central India got a boost when Shri Daulat Ram , the then Agriculture Minister of Government of India inaugurated CP AND BARAR COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SCIENCE at Jabalpur on 8th June 1948. This college was imparting degree and first was affiliated to Agra University, then to Sagar University; when Jabalpur University (Presently Rani Durgavati vishwa vidyalaya) came in existence in 1956 , the college was affiliated to this University. This period also witnessed a change due to re organization of the states and creation of Madhya Pradesh as a separate state on 1st Nov.1956 (Chhattisgarh was part of this state till 1Nov 2001)..

During that time, there was acute shortage of Veterinarians in the area and students were attracted to this field by awarding scholarship to all the students so that talented students but with with poor background may join this college. Again, looking to the shortage , the examinations were conducted every six months giving chance to the students to clear his subjects in every examination though March-April examination was considered final examination and subsequent examinations as supplementary examination. The shortage of the Veterinary staff in the state was so much that once a student appeared in final year examination i.e. 4th Year, if he fails in one or many subjects , he was posted as sub VAS in a veterinary dispensary and given title of VAS to join a Veterinary hospital and pay after clearing all the subjects . The process was continued till 1964 and was discontinued afterwords. This also reflects that at that time College was part and parcel of Animal Husbandry department hence there was frequent transfers between field and college. But it must be remembered that at that time, it was purely a teaching college with no emphasis on research which was mainly confined to IVRI,Bareilly
With the creation of Jawaharlal Nehru krishi vishwa vidyalaya on 2nd Oct 1964, this college, along with Mhow Veterinary college, became a constituent college of Agriculture University with separating of field and college staff and emphasis on research and extension ,along with teaching..
As these agricultural universities were created in India on American land grand pattern, an attempt was made to separate veterinary science and Animal Husbandry at Pantnagar and Hisar .First this was in allotting animal husbandry courses like animal nutrition , genetics to Agriculture post graduate students and then by opening a separate college of Animal Sciences at Pantnagar and Hisar. Here qualifications of faculty and students were not necessarily BVSc and other persons ,specializing in the subject, were also appointed in the faculty as well as for admission. Thus batches of students came out who were not holding degree of BVSc but were mustered in Animal nutrition or genetics etc.This was done on American pattern where the department was also having two posts with different qualifications- one of Veterinary Medicine and other for Animal sciences.However, India, being a developing country with short of funds, refused to create to different  posts and made it compulsory to hold a BVSc prior appointing any person in the department so that he may be transferred at any place according to will of the government.
However, this also caused shortage of the veterinary profession in the country. To cope up with the shortage new veterinary colleges were opened and Rewa became third veterinary college in the state to train students in veterinary profession. One reason for shortage of veterinary colleges may be little interest of private organizations due to exorbitant cost of opening a veterinary college ,in comparison to a medical college. Moreover, there is more money to a medical graduate who is ready to spend more money hence the private persons prefer to start a medical college instead of a veterinary college.This situation may suggest an acute shortage of veterinary profession in the state and students should  be absorbed in the department , immediately after graduation.However, it is not so, and we have witnessed strikes by the students to provide job by the government. This is the condition when the capacity of admission of students in each college is not more than 100 seats and hardly 200 students clear their professional examination every year.
So now we have come to a crucial point of discussion .What is the present position of human resources in our state and how much we will need each year in different fields.
Prior discussing this point, we will like to attract two more developments. The first was creation of Veterinary Council of India by passing a resolution in 1985 in Parliament at New Delhi and creation of State Veterinary council ,afterwards. Thus Bhopal is having a state veterinary council which is suppost to maintain record of all the registered veterinarians.. But here also those who have retired from their active services and are not doing any veterinary services, are not interested to register in the council. Therefore ,it is difficult to assume the correct position of the veterinarians in each state. Perhaps we do not have data of human resources in veterinary profession in each state and we have to depend on central organization for this. It may not be out of place to mention that I have posted on my face book to know the number of teachers, veterinarians in hospitals etc and failed to get such information.
Another fact, one has to remember is expansion of veterinary services . Till recently , it was confined to veterinary colleges, livestock farms , now the services have been extended to zoo and  wild life, defences, pharmaceuticals,Gaushala,training centres  and many other fields. Even then we do not have any organization who can publish the data each year . 
In recent years, a NATIONAL ACADEMY OF VETERINARY SCIENCES (NAVS) have been made operational which is supposed to be torch bearer of veterinary profession in the country.This NAVS has published in August,2015, a booklet on "Human resource needs in Veterinary and Animal sciences ".. According to this booklet, the available manpower in livestock section in India is as follws : Field veterinarians (including private practicioners 34,500 ;teaching and research3050;ICAR and other scientific organizations 2850; poultry secotr 2050; pharmaceuticals 250;;feedindustries 200,zoo and wild animals 50 ;livestock farms 500; banking and insurance 100; defence establishment 400 .It must be emphasised that except a few numbers, most of above numbers are approximate. Again , there is production of approximate 2400 veterinarians ,including BVSC, MVSC and Ph.D.per year in the country.So we do not have any organization which monitor correctly our needs and those we are losing per year.
It will be interesting to note that this NAVS has anticipated the need of about 1,25,000 veterinarians for different services by the year 2035.
These minuscule figures can not be compared with other professions like medicos, chartered accountants, Engineers who figures in lakhs and have a say in policy decision of the government . If we want to establish veterinary profession in the country as a self sufficient profession, we have to discuss different policies and plants on different forums , than only this profession may attain a respectable position in the country.

Thursday 28 June 2018

GLORIOUS YEARS OF JABALPUR VETERINARY COLLEGE -22

THIS IS LAST PHOTOGRAPH SHOWING LIST OF ALL THE DEANS OF JABALPUR VETERINARY COLLEGE SINCE ITS INCEPTION TO DR A.P.SINGH. FROM 2009 THIS COLLEGE BECAME A CONSTITUENT COLLEGE OF MP VETERINARY UNIVERSITY WHICH CHANGED TO NANAJI DESHMUKH UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY SCIENCE.

MESSAGE : ALWAYS TRY TO PRESERVE YOUR HISTORY WITH PHOTOGRAPHS AND DEPICT THEM AT IMPORTANT SITES . SORRY TO MENTION THAT DR PG.NAJPANDEY THE THEN PRESIDENT OF JVCAA ASSEMBLED ALL THE INFORMATION AND EXHIBITED THEM IN THE COLLEGE. HE ALSO MADE A CD OUT OF THESE PHOTOGRAPHS BUT NO BODY (EVEN NOT DR NAJPANDEY ) WAS HAVING THE CD AND I LEARNT THAT THE WHOLE CD HAS BEEN CORRUPTED MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO RETRIEVE THE PHOTOGRAPHS.
ANY HOW I COULD RETRIEVE SOME OF THESE PHOTOGRAPHS AND DOWN LOADED ON THIS BLOG SO THAT SAME STORY MAY NOT BE REPEATED. HERE I HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TELL PLEASE ASSEMBLE ALL THE INFORMATION TILL DATE OF OUR EXECUTIVE MEMBERS OF JVCAA AND ALL THE INFORMATION OF GOLD MEDALS WITH THE LIST OF WINNERS.
PLEASE REMEMBER OUR COMMITTMENT THAT JVCAA WILL CONTINUE FOR EVER .

GLORIOUS YEARS OF JABALPUR VETERINARY COLLEGE 21







GLORIOUS YEARS OF JABALPUR VETERINARY COLLEGE-20

SOME GROUP PHOTOGRAPHS OF STAFF AND STUDENTS