The Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE) Chairman Prof. T Papireddy, today here at PJTSAU has appealed the Agricultural Universities should play a proactive role in upliftment of the farmers in the country. Prof.Papireddy has attended as the chief guest for the valedictory function of five day training program on National level Capacity Building Workshop for Librarians of State Agricultural Universities (SAU’s) jointly organized by National Agricultural Higher Education Project, New Delhi and Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University(PJTSAU) under “National Knowledge Management Center for Agriculture Education and Research (NKMC4AER).
While speaking on this occasion Prof. Reddy said that, dissemination and sharing of Agricultural information & knowledge to the stakeholders such as farmers, students research scholars in which librarians should play an important role he added. He quoted the survey report that, the farmers in the country are in deep distress and they ready to shift from the agriculture profession if they get good alternative profession he said.
In view of this, there is a need to support and strengthen the farmers by extending modern agricultural knowledge, technologies to their doorstep and enhance their livelihood. Prof .Papireddy, suggested the librarians should always proactive in adopting the new developments& changes and happenings in library services around the globe and upgradation of the library services should be a continuous process he said.
Dr. S Sudheer kumar, Registrar PJTSAU has delivered the presidential remarks. The University library is becoming testing lab for adopting newer technologies in library services and sharing its experiences across the country he says. Dr. Sudheer Kumar, Registrar announced that the library services in the university library will be totally automated and several new initiatives would be implemented very soon. He also explained about the university achievements and new initiatives in last four years.