Radha Mohan launches education portal of ICAR

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New Delhi : Union Agriculture and Farmer Welfare Minister Radha Mohan Singh launched  the education portal of ICAR at the conference of Vice Chancellors of Agriculture Universities and Directors of ICAR Institutes in New Delhi on March 8, 2018. The portal has been developed on the lines of KVK portal released by the Union Agriculture Minister earlier.

Education Portal-ICAR (https://education.icar.gov.in) will act as a single window platform for providing vital education information/announcements/event schedules / e-learning resources from Agricultural Universities across the country to the rural youth in an easy and fast way at their doorsteps. The portal will also help in management, monitoring and promoting activities/schemes of Education Division, ICAR.

Education Portal-ICAR has been designed and developed by the Division of Computer Application, Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI), under the guidance of Agricultural Education Division, ICAR. The portal has been developed as an ICAR initiative under the Digital India programme of the Prime Minister of India and for the first time all the Agriculture universities have come on the single platform to disseminate the information for the benefit of students and farming community, according to a PIB release.

The portal provides information on “Strengthening and Development of Higher Agricultural Education in India”, provides information about courses (Bachelor, Master and Doctoral), Facilities, Student Strength, Faculty Strength and Scholarships, admission announcements uploaded by universities under “Notifications” at the central place among others.​