Krishi Vigyan Kendra Telephone Directory 2020 DIVISION OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION KRISHI ANUSANDHAN BHAWAN-I, PUSA NEW DELHI-110012 i KVK-Telephone Directory - 2020 Printed : February 2020 Compiled by : ICAR - Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute (ATARI), Zone XI, Bengaluru Printed at : Precision Fototype Services, No. 13, SNT Street, Gupta Layout, Halasuru, Bengaluru - 560 008. Ph: 080 - 2536 4349/2554 6146 Published by : Deputy Director General, Agricultural Extension, ICAR, Krishi Anusandhan Bhawan-I, Pusa, New Delhi 110 012 ii KVK-Telephone Directory - 2020 Zone VI – 46 KVKs Assam (26) 116 Arunachal Pradesh (16) 121 Sikkim (4) 123 Zone VII – 43 KVKs Manipur (9) 124 Meghalaya (7) 126 Mizoram (8) 128 Nagaland (11) 129 Tripura (08) 131 Zone VIII – 81 KVKs Maharashtra (49) 133 Gujarat (30) 143 Goa (2) 148 Zone IX – 81 KVKs Madhya Pradesh (53) 149 Chhattisgarh (28) 158 Zone X - 75 KVKs Andhra Pradesh (24) 163 Telangana (16) 167 Tamil Nadu (32) 170 Puducherry (3) 177 Zone XI – 48 KVKs Karnataka (33) 177 Kerala (14) 184 Lakshadweep (1) 187 iv KRISHI VIGYAN KENDRA AT A GLANCE The Education Commission (1964-66) recommended that a vigorous effort should be made to establish specialized institutions to provide vocational education in agriculture and allied fields at the pre-and post-matriculate levels to cater to the training needs of a large number of boys and girls coming from rural areas. The Commission, further, suggested that such institutions be named as ‘Agricultural Polytechnics’. The recommendation of the Commission was thoroughly discussed during 1966-72 by the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Agriculture, Planning Commission, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and other allied institutions. Finally, the ICAR mooted the idea of establishing Krishi Vigyan Kendras (Agricultural Science Centres) as innovative institutions for imparting vocational training to the practicing farmers, school dropouts and field level extension functionaries. The ICAR Standing Committee on Agricultural Education, in its meeting held in August 1973, observed that since the establishment of Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) was of national importance which would help in accelerating the agricultural production as well as in improving the socio-economic conditions of the farming community, the assistance of all related institutions should be taken in implementing this scheme. The ICAR, therefore, constituted a committee in 1973 headed by Dr Mohan Singh Mehta of Seva Mandir, Udaipur (Rajasthan) for working out a detailed plan for implementing this scheme. The Committee submitted its report in 1974. The first KVK, on a pilot basis, was established in 1974 at Puducherry (Pondicherry) under the administrative control of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore. The Planning Commission approved the proposal of the ICAR to establish 18 KVKs during the Fifth Five Year Plan. With the growing demand for more such Kendras, the Governing Body (GB) of the Council approved 12 more KVKs in 1979 and they were established in the same year from Agricultural Produce Cess Fund (AP Cess Fund). The ICAR GB approved 14 KVKs in 1981, were established during 1982-83 from AP Cess Fund. A High Level Evaluation Committee on KVK was constituted by the ICAR in 1984. After thorough review of the programme, the committee strongly recommended for the establishment of more KVKs in the country. Keeping this in view the Planning Commission approved the establishment of 44 new KVKs during the Sixth Plan. Thus by the end of Sixth Plan, 89 KVKs were functioning in the country. During the Seventh Plan to start with, 20 more KVKs were established. The success of the KVKs at many locations created a great demand for establishment of new KVKs in the remaining districts of the country. Accordingly, the Planning Commission further approved 74 new KVKs to be established during the period 1992-93. In the Eighth Plan (1992-97), 78 new KVKs were approved and established in the country, taking the total number of functional KVKs by the end of the Eighth Plan to 261. The number of KVKs increased to 290 during Ninth Plan with the establishment of 29 more KVKs. On the occasion of the Independence Day Speech on 15th August 2005, the Prime Minister of India announced that by the end of 2007 there should be one KVK in each of the rural v KVK-Telephone Directory - 2020 districts of the country. This resulted in 551 KVKs by the end of the Tenth Plan. During XI plan there was as addition of 79 KVKs and at the end of XII plan total KVKs established were 642. During the current plan (2017-20), 75 more KVKs have been added taking the total to 717 KVKs. Out of 717 KVKs, 491 are under State Agricultural Universities (SAU) and Central Agricultural University (CAU), 66 under ICAR Institutes, 104 under NGOs, 37 under State Governments, and the remaining 19 under other educational institutions. No. Of KVKs Of No. Growth in number of KVKs during various plan periods Krishi Vigyan Kendra, a plan scheme designed and managed by the ICAR for over four decades, is playing a vital role because of its following unique features: • Creation of valuable resources in terms of technical manpower and assets • Confirmation of technologies to suit local specificity • Showcasing the frontier technologies • Capacity building among stakeholders • Front runner in technology application, information and inputs • Participatory approaches in planning, implementing, executing and evaluation Mandate The mandate of KVK is Technology Assessment and Demonstration for its Application and Capacity Development. To implement the mandate effectively, the following activities are envisaged for each KVK: a) On- Farm Testing (OFT) to assess the location specificity of agricultural technologies under various farming systems. b) Frontline demonstrations (FLDs) to establish production potential of technologies on the farmers’ fields. c) Capacity development of farmers and extension personnel. vi d) To work as knowledge and resource centre of agricultural technologies. e) Provide farm advisories using ICT and other means of media on varied subjects of interest to farmers. f) Produce quality technological products (seed, planting material, bio-agents, livestock) and make it available to farmers. g) Identify and document selected farm innovations and converge with ongoing schemes and programmes within the mandate of KVK. vii Sl. Telephone Number Name and Address No. Office Fax Residence Mobile DIRECTOR GENERAL 1. Dr. Trilochan Mahapatra 011- 011- 011- Secretary (DARE) & 23382629 23384773 25843190 Director General, ICAR 23386711 Krishi Bhawan New Delhi -110001 Email: [email protected] 2. Sh. Rajiv Maheshwari 011- - 0120 - OSD to Secretary (DARE) & 23386711 2642455 Director General, ICAR 23389406 Krishi Bhawan New Delhi -110001 Email: [email protected] DIVISION OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION Krishi Anusandhan Bhawan-I, Pusa, New Delhi - 110012 1. Dr. A.K. Singh 011- 011- - 9582922324 Deputy Director General 25843277 25842968 (Agril. Extn.) Email: [email protected] 2. Sh. Raj Singh 011- - - 9213740752 PPS to DDG (Agril. Extn.) 25843277 3. Smt. Tripta Sharma 011- - 011- 8383808057 PS to DDG (Agril. Extn.) 25843277 26241229 4. Dr. V.P. Chahal 011- - - 9968722475 ADG (AE) 25841536 Email: [email protected] 5. Dr. Randhir Singh 011- - - 9911215611 ADG (Agril. Extn.) 25841287 Email: [email protected] 6. Dr. P. Adhiguru 011- - - 9968179901 Principal Scientist (AE) 25841038 Email: [email protected] 1 KVK-Telephone Directory - 2020 Sl. Telephone Number Name and Address No. Office Fax Residence Mobile 7. Dr. Keshava 011- - - 9417001969 Principal Scientist (AE) 25848370 Email: kumarkeshav1969@gmail. com 8. Dr. Naresh Girdhar 011- - - 9958153714 Principal Scientist (AE) 25843084 Email: [email protected] Extn. 425 9. Smt.Namrta Sharma 011- - - 9717171715 Deputy Secretary (AE) 25841081 Email: [email protected] 10. Sh. Balraj Singh 011- - - 9868982584 Under Secretary (Agril. Extn.) 25840184 Email: [email protected] Extn. 424 11. Sh. Vijay Kumar - - - 8368546474 SO (Agril. Extn. I) Email: [email protected] Extn. 416 12. Sh. Rajkumar - - - 9818376369 SO (Agril. Extn. II) Email: [email protected] Extn. 417 13. Sh. BSK Soreng - - - 9968599351 SO (Agril. Extn. III) Email: [email protected] Extn. 101 2 Sl. Telephone Number Name and Address No. Office Fax Residence Mobile DIRECTORS, AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE (ATARI) 1. Dr.Rajbir Singh +91-161- +91-161- 8587956728 8587956728 Director, 2401018 2412719 ICAR-ATARI, Zone I, PAU Campus, Ludhiana -141 004 Punjab Email: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 2. Dr. S. K. Singh 0291- 0291- 97947 69353 9794769353 Director, 2740516 2744367 ICAR-ATARI, Zone II, CAZRI Campus, Behind AIIMS, Jodhpur – 342005 (Rajasthan) Email: [email protected] [email protected] 3. Dr. Atar Singh 0512- 0512- - 7376141524 Director, 2533560 2533560, ICAR-ATARI, Kanpur, Zone-III, 2554746 Rawatpur, Near Vikas Bhawan, Kanpur-208002 Email:[email protected], [email protected] www.atarik.res.in 4 Dr. Anjani Kumar 0612- - - 9811696364 Director, 2226086 ICAR ATARI – Patna, Zone IV /2226950 Central Potato Research Station Campus, Sahay Nagar, Patna - 801506 (Bihar) Email: [email protected] [email protected] 5. Dr. S. S. Singh 033- 033- - 078974 Director, 23352355 23352355 63399 ICAR-ATARI , Zone V, Bhumi Vihar Complex, Block- GB, Sector- III, Salt Lake, Kolkata, West Bengal - 700097 Email: [email protected], [email protected],