- NAHEP Component 2

NAHEP Component 2

Investment in ICAR Leadership in Agricultural Higher Education - would finance the carrying out of institutional reforms within ICAR in order to enhance ICAR's effectiveness in coordinating, guiding and managing agricultural higher education and its interactions with AUs and key stakeholders nationwide through interventions that increase the quality and relevance of agricultural higher education. As ICAR is responsible for national coordination and quality assurance of agricultural higher education, the component would leverage ICAR's comparative advantage in assessing systemic challenges across the ICAR-AU System and incubating solutions.

Components of NAHEP 2

The components finance goods, training, consultant services and non consultant services and incremental operating costs and include:

Assessing options in the administration and award of ICAR’s technical and financial assistance to AUs
Providing assistance to participating AUs for the development of IDPs, CAASTs and Innovation Plans
Establishing partnerships with globally recognized agricultural higher education institutions
Developing digital information systems for agricultural data collection, analysis and dissemination
Improving curricula review processes and methods to consolidate and disseminate global best-practices in agricultural education
Assisting agricultural universities to strengthen their linkages with industry

Improving the all-India entrance examination in agriculture, including an on-line national examination system
Adopting next-generation management systems covering information, procurement, contract and financial management areas
Coordinating an External Advisory Panel of renowned agricultural education experts
Promoting the establishment of centers for career development at agricultural universities
Structuring dialogue with State governments to catalyze their participation in raising the quality and relevance of agricultural higher education

NAHEP Component2

Objectives & Activities

ICAR-IASRI

To develop ICT infrastructure as technical assistance to AUs
To develop digital information systems for agricultural education, data collection, analysis and dissemination
To develop and implement next-generation management systems covering information, procurement, contract and financial management areas

ICAR-NAARM

To establish partnerships with globally recognized agricultural higher education institutions
To promote the establishment of career development centre at agricultural universities
To improve curricula review processes and methods to consolidate and disseminate global best practices in agricultural education;
To assist agricultural universities in strengthening their linkages with industry.
To structuring dialogue with state government to catalyse their participation in raising the quality and relevance of agricultural higher education.

ICAR-NIAP

To develop the mechanism for online all-India entrance examination system in agriculture

BENEFITS

ICAR-IASRI

Enabling faculties and students to utilize state-of-art IT infra in par with global standards and improve agricultural education efficiency and management of various university academic and research processes with digital interventions
Increase competitiveness, networking and collaboration among agricultural universities

ICAR-NAARM

Component 2 of NAHEP will create an enabling environment to nurture partnerships/linkages with higher education institutions, industry, governments across the globe for enhancement of the performance of agricultural higher education in the country

ICAR-NIAP

Help students and faculties to avail the usage of cloud platforms and take examination at one time across the country, it can further help in reducing time for evaluation and scoring