{"id":60545,"date":"2019-02-17T03:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T21:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=60545"},"modified":"2019-02-17T03:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T21:52:28","slug":"3rd-convocation-ceremony-of-aus-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/02\/17\/3rd-convocation-ceremony-of-aus-held\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd convocation ceremony of AUS held"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>AUS has potential to be leading agricultural institution: ICAR DG<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NAMSAI, Feb 16:<\/strong> The Arunachal University of Studies (AUS) conducted its third convocation ceremony here on 16 February.<br \/>\nTwenty-one gold medallists and 536 postgraduate and undergraduate awardees attended the event.<br \/>\nAddressing the function, India Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Director General (DG) Prof Trilochan Mohapatra lauded India&#8217;s stupendous performance in the agricultural sector. Dwelling on India&#8217;s self-sufficiency in food production, he said the country&#8217;s success in ensuring food security &#8220;is a role model for the developing countries.&#8221;<br \/>\nProf Mohapatra commended the AUS&#8217; &#8220;attempt to cope with challenges in this area, and its support for the students in a remote part of the country.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe said the university has the potential to emerge as &#8220;the leading institution in the field of agricultural research in the country.&#8221;<br \/>\nProf Mohapatra was also conferred with the honoris causa for his excellent performance in researching the agricultural science on doubling farmer&#8217;s income.<br \/>\nEarlier, Prof Mohapatra inaugurated the agriculture science building in the university campus and visited an exhibition organised by the agriculture science faculty.<br \/>\nThe exhibition displayed indigenous vegetable seeds, herbs, research articles, and ongoing research projects in the university.<br \/>\nLater, AUS vice chancellor Prof VK Kawatra read out the convocation oath.<br \/>\nThe event was chaired by AUS chancellor Kamal Lochan Agarwal, and was attended by eminent scholars such as World Education Mission president Dr AL Agarwal, MD &amp; pro-chancellor Vishva Lochan, registrar Divyanshu Goel and Prof A Arunachalam.<br \/>\nBefore the event, a two-minute silence was observed to honour the martyrs of the terror attack at Pulwama in Jammu &amp; Kashmir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUS has potential to be leading agricultural institution: ICAR DG NAMSAI, Feb 16: The Arunachal University of Studies (AUS) conducted its third convocation ceremony here on 16 February. Twenty-one gold medallists and 536 postgraduate and undergraduate awardees attended the event. Addressing the function, India Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Director General (DG) Prof Trilochan Mohapatra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-60545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}