Nitish Kumar inaugurates Bihar Agriculture University's new buildings worth Rs 268 crore

PATNA: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday inaugurated administrative and several other new buildings of the Bihar Agriculture University (BAU) located at Sabour in Bhagalpur district, through videoconferencing from the Nek Samvad hall at the CM residence here.
These buildings are built at the cost of Rs 268 crore.
Addressing the function, CM said an agriculture college at Sabour was established way back in 1908. It was one of the first five agriculture colleges in the country. Later, the Sabour agriculture college was upgraded into a full-fledged agriculture university on August 5, 2010. It was named as the BAU.
“After upgrading the Sabour agriculture college into a full-fledged university, the state government also decided to open five new agriculture colleges under the new university. These five colleges are Horticulture college at Noorsarai in Nalanda district, Mandan Bharti agriculture college, Saharsa, Veer Kuer Singh Agriculture College, Dumraon, the Bhola Paswan Shashtri Agriculture College, Purnia and Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Agriculture College at Kishanganj,” the CM said.
The CM also informed that the Kishanganj-based APJ Abdul Kalam college has the biggest campus among the agriculture colleges across the country.
He said the state government also established a separate Bihar Animal Sciences University in Patna in 2016. “We also established an exclusive forestry college at Munger to promote forestry in the state,” Nitish said.
The CM further said that the BAU, Sabour, has done several remarkable works in the field of education and research. The university has now secured 18th position in the national ranking.
“The university is now producing seeds of different varieties on a large scale. During the Kharif season of current year, the university distributed more than 10,000 quintals of seeds among the beneficiaries,” CM said while highlighting the works being done by the BAU.
Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi, agriculture minister Prem Kumar, building construction minister Ashok Choudhary and the secretary (agriculture) N Saravana Kumar also addressed the inaugural function through video conferencing.