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CIFRI ANNUAL REPORT 2007- 2008
competitions likc nihu~t~li~ Ic~hlt~rn, ~I/)/)LII!\~ IC~IICJII,
shi~htl~r\z~nli. ,scJntrrtj*tJ ~\'LII~. ~tilokl7, /~r~r.s/lnolf~lr:'.
hinrli t~rr1knn werc conducted. A large number of
officers and staf'l' including marly scicntists
participated in thesc compctitivns and won prizes. In
the Valedictory function Llr. Shivnath Pandej.,
f'rofessor of Hindi, Mollsin C'ollegc, C'hinsura was the
C'11ie~'C;uest and it was presided by llr. K. E;. Vnss.
D~rector, C.'IFRI. Ttie mcssage issucd by the Horiorablc
Minister of Agriculture, Govt. of India, Shri Sharad
Pawar Si was rcad on thc occasion.
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Thc (.'IFRI Quinquennial Kcv~ew 'Team (C,)RT) for
2002-07. constituted ol'Dr, P.V.De1iadrai Ex-l)DG(t. y
) ICAK as Chairnlan, and Prof M.S..lohal I-lcad , Dcpt
of' Zoology Pun-jab IJriiversity, Prof. l).P.Zutshi, Ex
Ilirector. CORD, liashnl~r IJniversity. Dr. f'.Kumar
Ex-Prof. lAR1 arid Prof: Kauslial Kumar Head, Dcpt of'
Zcjologv CQ
Dean Faculty of Sc~cnce 1l.Il.U.
(.iorakhpur Univcrsit> hcltl its first rnccting at C'IFRI
Harrackpore on 20-2 1" Suly 2007.'The achicvemcnts of'
all thc projects werc prescntcd by scicntists and
revicwcd. The ORT visited thc Regional Rcscarch
centrcs I,r reservoir fshcrics at Hessarnghata,
Bangalore during Octokcr 3-6, 2007, and fix thc North
castern region at Dispur, Assam CIFRI during 17-19
December 2007. The team vis~tcd the rcspectivc
otliccs and participated in the interaction with
Scientists and otlicr ~ncnlbers ofstaf'i;
A total of four visits and scveri meetings were
held at CIFKI HQ, Harrackpore, Kolkata and its
Regional Centrcs at Bangalore, (;uwahati and
Allahahad. Thcse visits and meetings helpcd thc-
Tcam to gct relevant feed back from thc scientifi:.
tcchnica! and ndniinistr;~t~vc ~CI'SOIIII~~.
pertaining to the \vorklprogra~il~~ics undcrtakcn
during thc period 2002 to 2007.
The 'lcam cxariiincd all thc points given it)
the tcrms of' reference had dctailcd discussions
with members oftlie staff.. Afier thoro~~gli I-L~\~I~.\~
of' the overall reseascll achievcmcrits of thc
C'cntr;~l Inland 1:isllerics Kescarch Institute lijr tlic
period 2002 to 2007, tlic tcarn niadc
rc.comn~rndatio~is l'or Suture rcscarch d ~rcction.
These :Ire grouped under Rcscarch, Policy
support, llurn;l~~ resoilsce uc\/c.Iopri~c~it,
Manpower, Inf'rastruct ure, Kcgiot 1:1l
act~vitics and Adnlinistration.
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\~r-ic*~ilt rlr.:~l Ilv$c.:~r-c.ll I t~\fit 111c\*, convcncd h\ thc
Fisheries D~vision, IC'AR, was hcld on 2"" I:chl-uary
2008, at C' I 1; K i. Rarrnckporc. f'ight fisllcrv sc~critists
from seven Agricultural Kesearcll inst~tutc's of ICAK
partic~pated in the n~ceting. Rascd on the d~scusslons