Agriculture Extension Department : : Chandrashekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology

About Department

The Department of Agricultural Extension was founded in year 1960 as an independent unit of teaching in the formerly known Govt. Agriculture College (later on found the status of C.S. Azad University of Agri. & Tech.). The objective was teaching students in the discipline of Agricultural Extension to generate manpower for helping farming community and raising agricultural production and molding attitude about innovations, technologies and activities launched in C.D. & NES blocks under five year Plan programme in the country. Department independently organized various supportive programmes for farmers until construction of Directorate of Extension the under University. The Deparment was organized demonstrations on farmer’s fields, Agri-exhibitions at the College level & farmers gosthies at village level. Major objective of the department is to teaching; impart training and building capacity of the students to bring desirable changes in mindset, to obtain optimum and sustainable returns. Department initiated Gaon ki Oar programme for practical orientation of students in actual village situation, ICAR the apex body in field of agricultural education and research appreciated the initiative a lot and inline to the programme, Lab to Land and Student READY/ RAWE programmes were introduced with experiential learning module. Presently department is running Undergraduate, postgraduate and Ph.D. Courses.

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Mission

To improve the quality of life and well being of individuals and communities through high quality teaching, research, extension and outreach programme that communicate crucial information for agricultural sciences and human performance.

Mandate

To carry out basic, applied and strategic researches in areas of extension education.
To carry out post graduate and doctoral degree programme that could meet trained man power demand of the government sector specially agriculture universities, research institutes and other developmental departments and agencies.
To carry out advanced trainings for imparting knowledge and desired skills among farming community for their social and economic up gradation.
To render supportive and advisory services to the students and farmers as well for better output.
To provide expert support and advice to the extension activities conducted by the university.

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Faculty profile

Staff position

Sl. No.	Post	Sanctioned	Vacant
1	Professor	01	01
2	Associate Professor	01	01
3	Assistant Professor	06	03
4	Non-Technical (Clerical)	05	–
5	Group-D	07	–
6	Artist	01	01
7	Driver	01	–

Sl. No.		Name	Designation	Remarks
Teaching
1	Dr. Sangeeta Gupta		Assistant Professor	Attached College of Community Science
Technical
3	Sri. Surendra Singh		Driver	Attached in Transport office

Sl. No.	Name	Designation	Remarks
Non-Technical (Clerical)
5	Sri. Om Prakash	Steno	Attached in VC office
6	Smt. Neeru Awasthi	Senior Assistant
7	Sri. Radha Mohan	Senior Assistant
8	Sri. Jai Prakash	Senior Assistant
9	Smt. Ranjana Kamal	Junior Assistant	Attached College of Community Science

Sl. No.	Name	Designation	Remarks
Group-D
10	Sri. Govind Singh	Peon
11	Sri. Shyam Lal	Attendant
12	Sri. Ramesh	Attendant
13	Smt. Prema Devi	Cleaner
14	Sri. Moti Lal	Attendant	Attached in Univ. Museum
15	Sri. Meva Lal	Peon
16	Sri. Naval Yadav	Ardali	Attached in Security Office

B.Sc.(Hon’s) Agricultural Extension

SR. NO.	Course Code	COURSE TITLE & CREDITS	Name of Teachers
1^STSEMESTER
1.	AEX -111	Comprehension &Communication Skills in English(Gradial Course), 2(1+1)	Smt. Geet Shikha (Guest Faculty)
2.	AEX- 112	Rural Sociology & Educational Psychology , 2(2+0)	Dr.Shashi Prabha Chauhan
3.	AEX- 113	Human Values & Ethics ( Non-Gradial) ,1(1+0)	Dr.Shashi Prabha Chauhan
2^ndSEMESTER
1.	AEX -121	Fundamentals of Agricultural Extension Education,3 (2+1)	Dr.A.K.Singh
2.	AEX- 122	Communication Skills and Personality Development , 2(1+1)	Dr.O.P.Yadav
5^th Semester	AEX-311	Entrepreneurship Development and Business Communication	Dr.O.P.Yadav
6 SEMESTER	UGE-324	Agricultural Journalism( Elective Course)	Dr.A.K.Singh
7 ^THSEMESTER		Student READY/ RAWE Programme,3(2+1)
1.	AEX -411	Student READY/RAWE,14(0+14)	Jointly Carry through different department Staff
2.	AEX -412	Agro-Based Industrial Attachment,6( 0+6)
		Total Credits=33

M.Sc.(Ag) Agricultural Extension

SR. NO.	Course Code	COURSE TITLE & CREDITS	Name of Teachers
1^STSEMESTER
1.	AEX-501	Development perspectives of Extension Education 2(1+1)	Dr. A. K. Singh
2.	AEX-502	Development Communication and Information Management 3(2+1)	Dr. O. P. Yadav
2^ndSEMESTER
1.	AEX-504	Research Methods in Behavioral Science 3(2+1)	Dr. O. P. Yadav
2.	AEX-507	Human Resource Development 3(2+1)	Dr. A. K. Singh
3^rd Semester	AEX-503	Diffusion and Adoption of Innovations 3(2+1)	Dr. A. K. Singh
1.	AEX-503	Diffusion and Adoption of Innovations3(2+1)	Dr. A. K. Singh
2.	AEX-506	Entrepreneurship Development and Management in Extension 3(2+1)	Dr. O.P. Yadav
4^th Semester	AEX-505	e-Extension 3(2+1)	Dr. A. K. Singh
2.	AEX-591	Master’s Seminar 1(1+0)	All the Teachers of Department
	AEX-599	Master’s Research(Thesis) 20(0+20)
		Total Credit = 44

Ph.D. Agricultural Extension

S.No.	Code	Course Title	Credits	Name of Teachers
1^STSEMESTER		Major Courses
1.	AEX-602	Agricultural Journalism	2(1+1)	Dr. A. K. Singh
2.	AEX-604	Training for Human Resources Development	3(2+1)	Dr. O. P. Yadav
2^ndSEMESTER		Major Courses
1.	AEX-601	Managerial Skills for Extension Professionals	2(1+1)	Dr. A. K. Singh
2.	AEX-603	Visual and Graphic Communication	2(1+1)	Dr. O. P. Yadav
3rd Semester		Major Courses
1.	AEX-605	Advance Techniques of Social Research	3(2+1)	Dr. A. K. Singh
2.	AEX-606	Psychometric methods in Extension	3(2+1)	Dr. O. P. Yadav
4th Semester
1.	AEX-699	Seminar	1(0+1)	All the advisory committee
2		Thesis	45
		Grand Total	71

Sr. No.	Name of the Students	ID NO.	Thesis Title	Major Advisor	Seminar Date
1.	Twinkle Verma	CA-10754/18	Study on Knowledge and adoption on soil and water conservation practices by farmers in dist. Varanasi (UP)	Dr. S. R. Yadav	26.10.2020
2.	Arvind Kumar	CA-10759/18	Study on impact of vocational Training conducted by KVKs on income generation in dist. Pratapgarh UP.	Dr. A. K. Singh	26.10.2020
3.	Nayan Jagdish Gaveare	CA-10040/18	Study on awareness of cotton growing farmers regarding effect of agro chemicals on human health in dist. Beed, Maharashtra	Dr. R. B. Singh	26.10.2020
4.	Birendra Pratap	CA-10760/18	A Study on use of mobile phone by the farmers in Balrampur Dist. UP.	Dr. A. K. Singh	27.10.2020
5.	Munesh	CA-10761/18	Study on assignment of adoption gap in sugarcane in crop practices in dist. Hardoi, UP	Dr. S. R. Yadav	27.10.2020

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE EXTENSION

Head of Department Dr. Munish Kumar

Name	:	Dr.Sangeeta Gupta
Date of Birth	:
Designation	:	Assistant Professor
College Department	:	C.S.Azad University of Agri. & Tech., Kanpur Agril. Extension
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S. No.	Name	Designation
1	Dr. Harishchandra	Professor