State Co-ordination Committee for Agricultural Education, Research and Extension
- There shall be the Karnataka State Co-ordination Committee for Agricultural Education, Research and Extension for the purpose of effective co-ordination in the activities of all the Agricultural Universities in the State, particularly in relation to teaching, research, extension education and other matters of common interests.
- The State Co-ordination Committee shall consist of the following members, namely:-
- The Minister in charge of Agriculture, Government of Karnataka shall be the Chairperson;
- The Vice-Chancellor of All Agricultural Universities in the State;
- The Directors of Education, Research and Extension of all Agricultural Universities
- Registrars of all the Agricultural Universities in the State.
- The Secretary to Government, Agriculture Department shall be the Member Secretary.
- Functions of the Co-ordination Committee shall perform the following functions, namely: -
- Ensuring autonomy of the Agricultural Universities in the state
- Hormonisation of academic programmes and regulations
- Ensuring complementarity and synergy through identification of areas of co-operation in Education, Research and Extension among different Agricultural Universities in the State.
- Suggesting new initiatives and action plans for joint endeavours of the Agricultural Universities of the State and development departments for accelerating agriculture growth
- Resolution of the inter-Universities and University - State issues
- The Committee shall meet at least twice in a year,
Source : THE UNIVERSITIES OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ACT, 2009.