Forum of Extension Scientists in ICAR

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e-mail from Dr. Sreenath Dixit
Dear Fellow Professionals,
Many of you may have already come to know about the change of guard at the highest office of Extension in NARS, i.e. DDG (Extn.). Dr.Kiran D.Kokate is going to take over as the DDG (Extn.) shortly. He has served as Director of Extension at the MPKV, Rahuri for over a decade. Like many other positions meant for Extension professionals, this one also had a strong possibility of going to the hands of a non Extension Scientist. It is indeed a matter of happiness for all Extension professionals that this position could be retained by a thoroughbred extension professional.
As you all know, positions of Heads of Divisions of Training in many ICAR Institutes and the Joint Director (Extn.) of IARI, the premier ICAR institute of the country and ADG positions in the Division of Extension have been occupied more often by non extension professionals. While we all know that it is impossible for an Extension scientist to even apply for a position of Head of Divisions other than that of Extension/Training/Social sciences, scientist of any other discipline can occupy a position of Head of Division of Extension/Training/Social sciences. It is a matter of introspection though for all of us, there is indeed a strong need for building up significantly pressure at the highest level to bring an awareness about this uncharitable practice. Further, we need to get together to raise ourselves and become capable of handling the challenges that go with any such position. This calls for an unified force that can act as a think tank, a pressure group and a professional network that can exert required force to seek justice to the discipline of Extension.
We request you to ponder over these matters and respond with your views. We also request you to pass this message on to your fellow extension professional and register his/her support on this matter. Through this we invite you all to come together as a virtual group that can be reckoned for its contribution to the growth and development of the discipline of Extension. To begin with, a few of us in Hyderabad have got together to get this matter across to all the Extension Scientists spread over various ICAR institutes across the country.
All you need to do now is to forward this message to those Extension professionals whose ids are not found in the list with a copy back to me so that we can include them in the list and formulate an e-forum of Extension scientists, ICAR. Finally, we also request you to think of a catchy name for our group. For eg. We may begin to work with Forum of Extension Scientists in ICAR (FESICAR).
Regards,
Sreenath Dixit
Sreenath Dixit, M Sc (Agri) PhDPrincipal Scientist (Agril. Extension) &
Consortium Principal Investigator
National Agril. Innovation Project (Comp.3)Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA)Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)SantoshnagarHYDERABAD 500059 India
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