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Over six decades ago, in 1960, first Agriculture University of the nation, the G.B.Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, was established in Pantnagar on the pattern of Land Grant Agriculture Universities of the United States. The establishment was done at that time on the premise that systematic education, research ...

About GBPUA&T

After independence, development of the rural sector was considered the primary concern of the Government of India. In 1949, with the appointment of the Radhakrishnan University Education Commission, imparting of agricultural education through the setting up of rural universities became the focal point. Later, in 1954 an Indo-American team led by Dr. K.R. Damle, the Vice-President of ICAR, was constituted that arrived at the idea of establishing a Rural University on the land-grant pattern of USA. As a consequence a contract between the Government of India,

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