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ICAR Telephone Directory / "0"$ !12 # 1 ( +!# + #) !"# !(%* 3! $% ! -, ! $ 4.) !& '(#)! # (%* !+!,-$ ,- 5 !+ ) , ! " . ! (%* ( . !(%*,(" # 56 $% . " - $ -.( # " +#7(%* ! "# / "0"$ !12 # 1 ( +!# + #) !"# !(%* 3! $% ! -, ! $ 4.) !& '(#)! # (%* !+!,-$ ,- 5 !+ ) , ! " . ! (%* ( . !(%*,(" # 56 $% . " - $ -.( # " +#7(%* ! "# TELEPHONE DIRECTORY 2019 TELEPHONE DIRECTORY 2019 DKMA is maintaining a Central Database on ICAR Telephone Directory. Whenever there is a change in telephone numbers, e-mail and fax, the same may please be uploaded on the telephone directory portal immediately, so as to update the information in the database/website. The telephone directory is based on information uploaded by the concerned units/SMDs/ Institutions upto 27-01-2019. Also available on ICAR Telephone Directory Portal (14.139.58.69/icar_teldir/teli_dir/home/search_contact) INDIAN COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH KriSHI BHAVAN, NEW DELHI 110 001 Printed : February 2019 Compilation : Shri VS Kaushik and Shri Deepak Kumar Design & Production : Dr V K Bharti, Shri Ashok Shastri Published by Dr SK Singh, Project Director Incharge (DKMA), Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, Laser typeset by Xpedite Computer Systems, 201, Patel House B-11, Ranjit Nagar Commercial Complex, New Delhi-110 008, and Printed at M/s Chandu Press, D-97, Shakarpur, Delhi-110 092. CONTENTS Page No. 1. ICAR at a Glance 2. ICAR Utility telephone numbers 1 3. Office of the Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare and 6 President of ICAR Society 4. Office of Minister of State for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare and 7 Parliamentary Affairs 5. Office of Minister of State for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare 7 6. Office of Minister of State for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare and 8 Panchayati Raj 7. Office of the Secretary (DARE) and Director General, ICAR 9 8. Office of the Additional Secretary & Financial Adviser (DARE/ICAR) 9 9. Office of the Additional Secretary (DARE) and Secretary, ICAR 10 10. International Cooperation Sections 11 11. Vigilance Division 11 12. Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board 13 13. Deputy Directors General 15 14. Assistant Directors General 16 15. Scientists at ICAR Headquarters 19 16. Directors, ICAR HQ 23 17. Deputy Secretaries 24 18. Deputy Directors 25 19. Assistant Directors 25 20. Under Secretaries 25 21. Administration/Work Study/Cash Unit 28 22. General Administration and Coordination Unit 30 23. Personnel Division 31 24. Finance Division 32 25. Coordination Unit 34 26. Award Cell 35 27. Intellectual Property and Technology Management Unit 35 28. Plan Implementation and Monitoring Unit 36 29. National Agril. Higher Education Project (NAHEP) Unit 37 30. Human Resource Management Unit 37 31. International Relations Section 38 32. National Agriculture Science Fund (NASF) 38 33. Protocol Unit, ICAR 39 34. Legal Cell 39 35. Agricultural Education Division 39 36. Agricultural Engineering Division 41 37. Agricultural Extension Division 42 38. Animal Science Division 43 39. Crop Science Division 44 40. Fisheries Science Division 47 41. Horticulture Science Division 48 42. Natural Resource Management Division 49 43. Hindi Division 51 44. E-governance Division 51 45. Directorate of Knowledge Management in Agriculture 52 46. Works/Engineering Cell 55 47. NIC-DARE Computer Cell 55 48. National Agricultural Science Museum 55 49. Krishi Vihar Residents Welfare Association 55 50. NASC Residents Welfare Association 56 51. ICAR Co-op. Thrift and Credit Society 57 52. ARS Scientists’ Fourm 57 53. Central Joint Staff Council, ICAR 58 54. ICAR HQ Joint Staff Council 59 55. ICAR SC/ST Employee Welfare Association (Regd.) 60 56. Agrinnovate India 61 57. ICAR Institutes/Directorates/NRC’s/NBs and their Regional Stations 62 – Agricultural Education Division Institutes/PDs/NRCs/NBs and their 62 Regional Stations – Agricultural Engineering Division Institutes/PDs/NRCs/NBs and their 63 Regional Stations – Agricultural Extension Division Institutes/PDs/NRCs/NBs and their Regional Stations 65 – Animal Sciences Division Institutes/PDs/NRCs/NBs and their 66 Regional Stations – Crop Science Division Institutes/PDs/NRCs/NBs and their 72 Regional Stations – Fisheries Science Division Institutes/PDs/NRCs/NBs and their 86 Regional Stations – Horticulture Science Division Institutes/PDs/NRCs/NBs and their 92 Regional Stations – Natural Resource Management Division Institutes/ 102 PDs/NRCs/NBs and their Regional Stations 58. Agri. Tech. Application Res. Institutes (ATARIs) 110 59. Project Coordinators of All India Coordinated and Network Projects 113 60. State Agricultural Universities 123 61. Deemed Universities 168 62. Central Agricultural Universities 171 63. Universities with Agriculture Faculty 174 64. Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) 176 65. Emeritus Professors/National Fellows/National Professors 180 66. National Academy of Agricultural Sciences 185 67. International Centres in Delhi 187 68. Important National Organizations 190 69. Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Department of Agriculture 192 and Cooperation and Farmers Welfare 70. Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare–Department of 193 Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries 71. Public Utility Telephone Numbers 195 72. Agricultural Journalists 196 73. Statewise list of Guest Houses of ICAR Institutes/SAUs 199 74. Index of ICAR Institutes 211 75. Index of Agricultural Universities 214 76. Index of AICRPs 216 77. Name Index 218 ICAR at a glance The Indian Council of Agricultural Research ( ICAR) is an autonomous organization under the Department of Agricultural Research and Education, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India. Formerly known as Imperial Council of Agricultural Research, it was established on 16 July, 1929 as a registered society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 in pursuance of the report of the Royal Commission on Agriculture. The ICAR has its headquarters at New Delhi. The Council is the apex body for coordinating, guiding and managing research and education in agriculture including horticultural Science, fisheries Science and animal sciences in the entire country. With 114 ICAR institutes and 75 agricultural universities spread across the country this is one of the largest national agricultural systems in the world. The ICAR has played a pioneering role in ushering Green Revolution and modernization of agriculture in India through its research, education and extension activities. The challenge before ICAR is to ensure nutritional security to ever-growing population of our country with little potential for increase in cultivable land area, ensuing shortage of water and global warming. Mandate Plan, Undertake, Coordinate and Promote Research and Technology Development for Sustainable Agriculture. Aid, Impart and Coordinate Agricultural Education to enable Quality Human Resource Development. Frontline Extension for technology application, adoption, knowledge management and capacity development for agri-based rural development. Policy, Cooperation and Consultancy in Agricultural Research, Education & Extension. Organization Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare is the ex-officio President of the ICAR Society. Secretary, Department of Agricultural Research & Education, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare, Government of India, and Director General, ICAR, the Principal Executive Officer of the ICAR. Governing Body is the Policy-making authority Agricultural Scientists' Recruitment Board (ASRB) Additional Secretary (DARE) and Secretary (ICAR) Additional Secretary (DARE) and Financial Advisor (ICAR) Deputy Directors General (8) Assistant Directors General Directorate of Knowledge Management in Agriculture (DKMA) National Agricultural Science Fund (NASF) Room Name and Telephone Numbers Residential Address/ No Designation Office/Fax EPABX Res./Mob. e-Mail Address INDIAN COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH KRISHI BHAWAN, NEW DELHI-110 001 ICAR UTILITY TELEPHONE NUMBERS Reception 9A KB Sh MK Tamang 23388991-9 6473 F-312, Jawahar Park, Reception Officer Khanpur, Saket, ND (ICAR/DARE) Administration 304 KB Sh Kanhaiya Choudhary 23386087 6552 9891412655 Qr. No. 1349, Sec. Director (Admn) (T/F) 12, RK Puram, ND-22 [email protected] 205A KB Sh Girish Bhatt 23071147 6460 0120- C-501, Garden Apptt, DS (GAC) 4567455 S-IV, Vaishali, 9910083324 Ghazibad-201010 UP girishbhatt.icar@ nic.in, garybhat04@ yahoo.co.in 303 KB Sh Ravi Chauhan 23386978 6362 135, Shubham Apptt, US (Admn) Pkt 4, Sec 12 Dwarka, ND-78 [email protected] 303 KB Smt Rajashree Sunil 23386978 6662 0120- B-494, Kendriya US (Admn) 2481341 Vihar, Sec 51, Noida (UP) 512 KB Sh Ajai Verma 23382746 6558 0120- 315 B, Gaur Ganga US (GAC) 4254981 Aptt, Sec 4, Vaishali Ghaziabad-201010 UP [email protected] 310 KB Sh Himanshu Kumar 23381017 6489 B-2, Krishi Vihar SO (Estt-I) ND-48 [email protected] Stenographic/Assistant/UDC Assistance 312 KB Smt Monika Mohale 6509 D-107, Rohit Apptts SO (Estt-II) Plot No. 30, Sec 10, Dwarka, ND-75 [email protected] CR&RTI Cell 401 KB Vacant 6551 SO ICAR-Telephone Directory 2019 1 Room Name and Telephone Numbers Residential Address/ No Designation Office/Fax EPABX Res./Mob. e-Mail Address 401 KB Sh Arun Kumar 6551 C-44, Krishi vihar Asstt (RTI) [email protected] Stores/Equipments 506 KB Sh Harpal Thakur 23385997 6499 9868220107 B-11, Krishi Vihar SO (GA) ND-48 [email protected]
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