Birsa Agricultural University (BAU), Vice Chancellor, ON Singh said on Tuesday that the role of veterinarians is more challenging, pious and satisfying than that of medicos because they take care of treatment and management of innocent animals who can’t explain their emotions, problems, pains and predicament.
Addressing the 61st Foundation Day function of Ranchi Veterinary College (RVC), Singh urged the teachers, staff and students to work in unison for regaining the past glory of the college which was declared the best veterinary college of the Country by a visiting parliamentary delegation in 1984. He said serious efforts were on for appointments against vacant scientific posts of the faculty. “With students coming back to campus for offline classes on State Government guidelines, the campus was now humming with life. Online classes can’t match the delivery and quality of offline classes having eye to eye contact”, he added.
Addressing the event as Chief Guest, Vice Chairman, Veterinary Council of India (VCI), the regulatory body of veterinary education in India, Dr PK Yadav urged the Birsa Agricultural University Administration and Jharkhand Government to come forward with proposal for setting up of separate veterinary university in Jharkhand as most of the states have separate university of veterinary science education. This step would herald a new chapter in expansion and quality improvement of veterinary education. He said a new building of VCI costing over Rs 50 crore will come up in Indian Agricultural Research Institute Campus (IARI), New Delhi for which two acre land has been allotted, he added.
Dean, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, Dr Sushil welcomed the guests and outlined the origin, development and achievements of RVC. Former Dean Dr AK Srivastava, Director Extension Education Dr Jagarnath Oraon, Dean PGS Dr MK Gupta and winner of elocution competition Aishwarya Roy also spoke on the occasion.
General Secretary of Jharkhand Veterinary Service Association, Dr Dharmrakshit Vidyarthi drew the attention of VCI towards the problems of the State's veterinary professionals. He complained that cadre strength of state veterinary service was static since the last 21 years, medical colleges were devoid of veterinary professionals and only one veterinarian was deployed in the forest department despite so many zoos, animal and bird sanctuaries in the state having over 29 percent forest cover. Dr Nandani Kumari, Asst Prof, Dept of AGB anchored the programme.
Later Dr PK Yadav also made a presentation on ‘Role, responsibilities and ethical practice for the Committee for the Purpose of Control, Supervision and Experiments on Animals (CPCSEA) nominees’.
