The students of Pantnagar University have once again proved their mettle in the Junior Research Fellowship examination conducted by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, for admission to post-graduate courses of all the agricultural universities in the country. The students of the College of Home Science of the university have secured places among the first six positions in the all India merit. Sakshi Bisht of Home Science Extension Department secured first place whereas Anusha Mishra, Himani Joshi and Jyoti Semwal got second, third and sixth positions, respectively in the merit. Besides these Gunjan Tiwari, Priyanka, Babita Tomar, Arti Nautiyal, Renu Joshi, Ekta Kapri, Neha Goswami, Jyoti Rawal, Tejaswita Aditi and Pooja Arya also passed the examinations.
The students of College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences of the university secured 22 positions among first 100 positions of the merit. Total 37 students appeared from the college. Jyotsna Bhatt secured second position in Veterinary Science group while Akanksha Tiwari, Supriya Yadav, Monu Karki, Nisha Bisht, Pallavi Deol, Garima Pandey, Archna Shroff, Binish Aslam, Mayank Maithani, Pankaj Gunwant, Kanika Tiwari and Ashvina Madhwal secured 26th, 32nd, 41st, 43rd, 51st, 55th, 57th, 66th, 67th, 78th, 85th and 87th positions, respectively in this group. In Animal Science group Farhein Tahir, Pragya Joshi, Namit Mohan Bijalwan, Megha Verma, Akash Uniyal and Sunil Pant got, 16th, 23rd, 27th, 32nd, 44thand 77th positions while in Animal Biotechnology group Kanchan Singh, Alok Khandari and Deepankar Bisht secured 7th, 11th and 18th position at country level. Congratulating the students on this success Pantvarsity V-C Dr. Mangala Rai exhorted them to keep the university’s flag fly high.