Late. Dr Satya Ranjan Baroova
Agri Scientist
Prominent member
Places
- Present address
- New Delhi, DL, India
- Workplace
- PUSA, New Delhi, DL, India
Work
- Present work
- Govt of India
- Designation
- Retd Joint Commissioner of Commercial Crops
- Also works in
- Phd
Education
- Qualification
- PhD
- Institute
- University of California , 1947, PhD; Banaras Hindu University ,Master’s degree , 1942; Allahabad Agricultural Institute
Profile
Life journey
He was the founder Vice-Chancellor of Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat.
He started his professional career as a teacher in Allahabad Agricultural Institute in 1942.
Served as Economic Botanist,
Special Officer (Food Production);
Additional Director (Agriculture);
Deputy Director (Community Development Programme);
Director (Fishery) and
Director (Agriculture), Govt. of Assam.
Director, Dept. of Extension (GOI) and
Joint Commissioner of Commercial Crops (GOI)
Commissioner, India; Director (R&D), Motilal Pesticides (India) Pvt. Ltd. and
Consultant, Asian Development Bank in Bangladesh. Dr. Baroova, a recipient of the National Extension Fellowship of Indian Society of Extension Education
Outstanding performance
Dr. Baroova joined AAU as the Founder Vice-Chancellor in 19th March 1969. His contribution towards establishing the University at Jorhat initially with two constituent Colleges e.g. College of Agriculture (Jorhat) and College of Veterinary Science (Khanapara) . Both Dr. Baroova and his wife Mrs. P. P. Baroova also initiated the base work for establishing a Faculty of Home Science (Presently Faculty of Community Science) under the University. This great academician and administrator left for heavenly abode on March 9, 2004.