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Sankar Kr Acharya,presently,Dean, Post Graduate Studies ;former Head, Dept. of Agril Extension and Director, Extension Education, Bidhan Chandra KrishiViswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, WB, born on 6th October, 1960, started his career as Assistant Professor at BCKV in 1988 and has been in teaching, research and extension more than 36years. An erudite teacher as well as an elegant speaker, is internationally acclaimed for his unique research domain of Social Entropy and Energy Metabolism, Social Ecology and Environmental Sociology, Enterprise Ecology Framework, Conservation Stewardships: Research Publication: 251 in National and International Journals. Book Publication: 119 books authored. So far, he has delivered 49 keynote addresses and chaired 57 sessions in National and International congresses.

Expert Member, Agriculture Commission; Marketing and Extension Sub Committee, Govt. of West Bengal; Expert member WWF projects in BTR (Buxa Tiger Reserve Project); Expert member; DFID project on Primary Education (DPEP); Rapid Environment Impact Analysis.Co-PI of ICAR, NAHEP and World Bank funded project on Conservation Agriculture.

So, far he has successfully guided 23 Ph D scholars and 97 M Sc scholars,. He is the Fellow of ISEE, IARI, New Delhi, Fellow, BIOVED, Allahabad; Fellow, Society of community mobilization, IARI, New Delhi. He is now acting as editor, reviewer of several national and international journals

Awards and Distinctions: Distinguish Scholar Award, Krishisanskriti, New Delhi; Certificate of Merit for standing First class first at M Sc(Ag) in Agricultural Extension, 1986; ;Honorary Appointment to the Research Board of Advisors, The American Biographic Institute (2003) ;He has been honored to be selected as the Convener of Panel (PE-32) entitled the hunger, poverty and silence, of World Congress, IUAES, University of Manchester, UK, 2013 ;He has been honoured to be selected as the Convener of Panel (P-102) entitled,’ Uncertainties, Unpredictability and Marginalization: The impact and mitigation for survival of agriculture and humanity, of the 19th World Congress, IUAES-WAU, 14-20 October, 2023, New Delhi, India, 2023 ;Honoured to be nominated as Expert Member, Working group on Agricultural Extension, West Bengal State Agriculture Commission (2007) ;Honoured to be nominated by the Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor, BCKV to Act as an Expert Member, DPEP, A DFID, UK, project for planning and revamping primary education through POA of GOVT of India.(1995)Expert Member, Buxa Tiger Reserve Project funded by WWF(World Wide Wild Life Funding), 1998 ;Dr Daulat Singh Memorial Award, Society of Extension Education, Distinguished Professor and Academician Award, Research Education Solution (RES), M S Swaminathan School of Agriculture, Centurion University(2022); Eminent Scientist Award, EIABT, Citwan Nepal. He is also the Expert Member, Research Council, Vidyasagar University, WB.

Achievers of German patent (Utility model no.20202310273) :Novel LOT based inventory management system with radio controlled pallet racking for storage solution. He is the Fellow, West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology(WAST), 2024. He is also the fellow of ISEE, New Delhi, Fellow, BIOVED, Allahabad, Fellow, Mobilization, New Delhi.

On academic missions, he visited Italy, France, Germany, China, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Bangladesh, He has a rich profile of editorial and reviewers’ contributions a different national and international Journals. Now, he has been invited to Zurich, Switzerland to deliver the Keynote address in International conference on Conservation Agriculture, June 22-23, 2025.

P. Pal is presently working as Assistant Professor (SG) in Statistics at College of Fisheries, Central Agricultural University, Imphal. He has been in teaching, research and extension for the last twelve years in the Department of Fisheries Extension, Economics and Statistics, College of Fisheries, CAU (I). He obtained his M.Sc degree in Agricultural Statistics from Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IASRI), New Delhi, in 2006 and Ph.D degree in Agricultural Statistics from Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswa Vidyalay (BCKVV) in 2011. He is the active advisory members of many PG and Ph.D scholars in various University and Research Organizations. He authored 118 research publications in reputed National (86) and International Journals (32), 4 Books and good number of Popular articles/Book chapters/Extension Bulletin as on date. Besides this, he is associated with many administrative responsibilities. He has organized many training programmes, webinars. He is the life member of several scientific societies.

Arnab Banerjee, born on 25thFebruary 1997, in Bankura district of West Bengal, obtained his B.Sc. (Agriculture) Honours from Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, West Bengal, in the year 2019. He obtained his M.Sc. in Agriculture and Rural Development from Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, Narendrapur, West Bengal, in the year 2021. He has published some research articles in reputable journals. Additionally, he has been awarded with the best oral presenter award in international conference. Currently; he has completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Agricultural Extension at the Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya under the supervision of Prof. S.K. Acharya. To his credit, there are good number of research publications in national and international journals, 3 best paper awards and gold medals on excellence of training participation at MANAGE, Hyderabad. He is an excellent researcher on FCM, ANN and dynamics of decision ecology.