Jammu, Feb 04: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Saturday flagged off a batch of nine undergraduate students from SKUAST-Jammu for an exposure-cum-training program to Kansas State University, USA. The 60-day-long capacity-building fellowship will expose the students to a global learning ecosystem and industrial establishment.
The LG interacted with the students and congratulated them upon their selection for the fellowship. The students will be visiting the Kansas State University under the Student Overseas Fellowship Programme of the National Agricultural Higher Education Project (NAHEP) funded by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) & World Bank.
The group includes undergraduate students of the Faculty of Agriculture, School of Biotechnology and Faculty of Veterinary Sciences & Animal Husbandry from the Agriculture University.
Prof. Nazir A. Ganai, Vice Chancellor SKUAST Jammu and other associated faculty members were also present at Raj Bhavan.