Prof. (Dr.) Sankar Kr Acharya, former Head, Dept. of Agril. Extension and Director, Extension Education, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, 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 over 30 years. An erudite teacher as well as an elegant speaker, Prof. Acharya has also been the topper and awarded the certificate of merit in his M. Sc. (Ag) academic career in Agril. Extension. He is internationally acclaimed for his unique research domain of Social Entropy and Energy Metabolism, Social Ecology and Environmental Sociology, Enterprise Ecology Framework, Farm Stewardships: The Transition from Conservation, Technology Socialization Process, and The Social Ecology of Livelihood, which have got tremendous policy as well as scholastic importance. Research Publication 209 in National and International Journals. Book Publication: 95 books authored/co-authored.
Mr. Debraj Roy, passed out (M.Sc. Ag) in Agricultural Extension, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya in the year 2019. He was placed in first class and completed his dissertation under the guidance of Prof. S K Acharya. Mr Roy has been unique by his presence of mind, mettle and out of box thinking.
Anannya Chakraborty is currently working as an assistant professor in Lovely Professional University in Jalandhar, Punjab. She has completed her Doctoral Research as a UGC NET Junior Research Fellow under the guidance of Prof. S K Acharya, in the department of Agricultural Extension, BCKV. She has obtained her B.Sc. Agriculture degree from BCKV in the year 2015. She also has brilliantly completed her M.Sc. In Agricultural Extension from the same university in the year 2017. Both UGC NET with JRF and ICAR NET have been qualified by her. So far she has authored or co-authored five books and fifteen of her papers have successfully published in peer reviewed journals and some are in progress. She has taken part actively in a number of national and international seminars and conferences. She was honoured with best paper awards twice.
Miss Riti Chatterjee, b. 18th November 1994, in Hooghly district of West Bengal, obtained her B.Sc. in Agricultural Sciences from Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, West Bengal in 2016. She obtained her M.Sc. (Ag.) from the same university in 2018 with OGPA 9.15, being the Gold-medalist. Her PG thesis, ‘Occupational hazards and operating agro-ecosystem: the health and ecological dynamics of farm women’, was a unique empirical work under the exclusive supervision of Prof. S.K. Acharya that received Best Masters’ Thesis Award by BHU and RASSA. She has attended 14 National and International Conferences and given oral and poster presentations which got 5 best paper awards. She has published 9 books and 15 research papers. Currently she is pursuing Ph.D. in department of Agricultural Extension and working as Senior Research Fellow under Centre for Advanced Agricultural Science and Technology (CAAST) on Conservation Agriculture project under ICAR-NAHEP.
Miss. Anwesha Mandal is currently a Ph.D. research scholar, is working as a Senior Research Fellow (SRF) under the Centre for Advanced Agricultural Science and Technology (CAAST) on Conservation Agriculture (CA) Project of ICAR-nAhEP, in the Department of Agricultural Extension, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya (BCKV), Mohanpur, West Bengal, under the supervision of Prof. S K Acharya. She received her B.Sc. degree in Agriculture from Palli Siksha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati University, West Bengal in 2016 and completed her M. Sc. in Agricultural Extension and Communication from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology (GBPUAT), Pantnagar, Uttarakhand in 2018 as a recipient of ICAR-JRF (NTS) Fellowship. She contributed chapters on agricultural extension in two competitive books on agriculture and co-authored few other books. Recently, she was a visiting scholar (2020) in the Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, USA to fulfill a part of her Ph.D. programme.
Mrs. Kabita Mondal, born on 19th March 1991, started her erudite teaching, research, extension career as Assistant Professor in the department of Agricultural Extension, College of Agriculture, Extended Campus of Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Dakshin Dinajpur, W.B. in 2015. She obtained her B.Sc. degree in Agriculture Science from Palli Siksha Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, W.B. in 2012 and Master degree in Agricultural Extension from Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Nadia, W.B. in 2014 as an NTS JRF ICAR candidate. She cracked ASRB NET in 2015 at her very first attempt. She credited 15 research articles in many reputed international and national journals, 3 popular articles, 2 book chapters and 1 book. Mrs. Mondal is an active member of editorial board of emagazine AgriCos e-Newsletter’’. She is currently pursuing her in-service Ph.D. degree on diverse aspects of Socio-ecological resilience from Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya.
