Project Steering Committee (PSC)

The PSC meets quarterly and have the following duties:

• Programme Implementation

• Monitoring research programs and progress of the center

• Framing policy and priority

• Identifying new opportunities and activities of the Center for continual update research

• Appointment of faculty and staff at the center

• Allocation of human and financial resources to associated projects

• Purchase and procurement of facilities required at the center

• Monitoring routine financial, academic and administration activities

Chairman:

• Dr Bidyut Chandan Deka ( Vice Chancellor, AAU )

Co-Chairman:

• Dr T J V Higgins: Honorary Fellow, CSIRO, Canberra

Members:

• Dr M Islam, Retd Adviser, DBT, GoI; Consultant DBT-ILS

• Dr T Madhan Mohan, Former Senior Adviser, DBT, GoI : Consultant Adviser, DBT-APSCS&T Skill Vigyan Kimin, Arunachal Pradesh

• Dr N K Singh, ICAR-National Professor(B P Pal Chair)

• Dr Arvind Kumar, DDG (Research), ICRISAT

• Dr M V Deshpande, Scientist(Retd) NCL, Pune, Director, Greenvention Biotech

• Dr Jayanta Deka, Dean Faculty of Agriculture, AAU

• Dr Ashok Bhattacharyya, Director of Research, AAU

• Dr Prasanna Kr. Pathak, Director of Extension Education, AAU

• Dr M K Modi, Professor and Head, Agricultural Biotechnology

• Dr S K Chetia, Principal Scientist, RARS, Titabor

• Dr Popy Bora, Junior Scientist, Plant Pathology

• Dr Rajen Baruah, Professor, Soil Science

• Dr Madhumita Barooh, Professor, Agricultural Biotechnology

• Dr S Acharjee, Asst. Professor, Agricultural Biotechnology

• Dr B K Sarmah, Director, DBT-NECAB