To provide well equipped facilities and adequate space for efficient working in college of fisheries of Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, construction of the new building of College of Fisheries has been started, for which the foundation stone was laid down by the Vice Chancellor of GADVASU, Dr VK Taneja, on Dec 3rd, 2014. For last 6 years, College of Fisheries has been based and working in available buildings with an associated farm area. On the occasion Dr. Taneja added that College of Fisheries will not only serve the State but also the northern region by producing scientifically trained quality human resource and generating need based region specific technologies for higher sustainable fish production from both culture and capture sector.
Dr. Asha Dhawan, Dean, College of Fisheries, said that the new building will have state of the art teaching, research and extension facilities to corroborate the mandate of different departments. She further added that the new college building will have well equipped laboratories to conduct research in major areas like fish nutrition, fish microbiology, fish biotechnology, disease diagnosis, soil and water testing, aquatic ecology, fish processing and value addition etc., besides having an aqua house and museum.
She revealed that besides green and white revolution, Punjab has also recorded voluminous growth in blue revolution in the recent past. Presently with fish productivity of over 6t/ha/yr, Punjab holds the honour of having the highest productivity in the nation. Further, there is still ample scope of developing fisheries in the State in view of aquaculture resources available in the form of village ponds and waterlogged waste lands. To cater the fast growing fisheries sector in the State, College of Fisheries, one of the constituent’s colleges of GADVASU was established in 2008 with the mandate to impart quality education for developing technically trained fisheries human resource, technology generation and its dissemination.
Dr. SPS Sangha, DSW cum Estate Officer informed that the building of College of Fisheries will be spread on an area of 60,000 sqft with 3 floors. The project will be completed in 12 months with a cost of about 7.78 crores.
Dr. P D Juyal, Registrar, Dr S N S Randhawa, Director Research, Dr Harpal Singh Sandhu, Dean College of veterinary Science, Dr Sushil Prabhakar, Controller of Examinations, HOD’s of different departments and a large number of faculty members and employees of university graced the occasion.
