DR A.G. KHAN was born in Seoni of Madhya Pradesh on 12.2.1936 in the family of late shri Basarat Khan.
Dr Khan was very active in the sports during college life and was Hockey captain and also Volleyball captain. As we have said earlier also, this was the golden period of the college where a student has to participate equally in curricular and extra curricular activities. This college was famous in organizing sports, cultural programs and had its reputation with winning many medals in these fields. Dr Khan took his BVSc degree from this college in 1958. He preferred to join field though yet , there was no water tight compartment between field and college. He served the state veterinary department between 24.8.58 to 12.3.1967.
Dr Khan did his MVSc in 1966 and came in the services of Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya. At that time , both dairy and poultry were very small units and were part of department of livestock management. I think in the year 1972 or so ,a poultry scheme came from ICAR under Dr BS Sathe who was professor of the department (he was also in-charge of cultural activities of the college and Dr PG Najpande has participated in many cultural activities under his guidance ) and Dr Khan was working under Dr Sathe. Soon ,Dr Sathe left the college to join NABARD and it was Dr Khan who took the mantle to lead the work. Soon , funds were allotted by ICAR and a whole building of Poultry science came up at our livestock farm , Adhartal. All credit must go to Dr A G Khan who started Poultry unit from scratch and appointed many subordinate staff (I remember Drs Poulos,Chakrabarty and Mrs Chakrabarty, PN Shrivastava and many others-The present staff Drs Bhardwaz,Nema, Atkare etc are students of Dr Khan who were groomed by him ).
The poultry unit was given assignment to develop layers which can produced more than 200 eggs per year and Dr Khan and his team did it very efficiently. Not only this,he developed a small but colored hen (as colored birds are preferred by village folk) named it NARMADA J which could well be maintained in the backyard of the farmer.
For his outstanding works, Dr Khan was awarded Hooker Award in 83-85 and he was decorated with Faqruddin Ali Ahmad Award in 93-95 by ICAR
I have no hesitation in mentioning that this was the Jabalpur Veterinary College whose staff received national awards like Rafi Ahmad Kidwai award, Faqruddin Ali Ahmad Award or National fellow award from ICAR and no faculty member either of Agriculture or Agriculture Engineering could compete with veterinary faculty in that respect.
Dr AG Khan retired from active services of JNKVV in the year 1996.
Even after retirement, Dr Khan remained attached to this college and was an active member of Jabalpur veterinary college alumni association. He was elected President of JVCAA in the year 2004 and did good work .
Dr Khan was in real sense a field person and was knowing well what is beneficial to our farmers. For this reason, he continued to provide his services to the poultry owners particularly of Maharashtra state.
Recently, Dr AG Khan was nominated as Member , Board of Management, Nanaji Deshmukh Veterinary university, Jabalpur and was participating in all vishwa vidyalaya activities very enthusiastically . However, he developed brain tumor which proved fatal to his health.
He has survived by his one son and one daughter.
We pray to the God to give eternal peace to the soul of Dr AG Khan and courage to the bereaved family to bear this loss.
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