College of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

Faculty

About the College:

The College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences established in 2024 under the premier University Banda University of Agriculture & Technology, dedicated to fostering excellence in veterinary education, research and animal healthcare. Our College is committed to preparing human resources to address global challenges in animal health, productivity and sustainability. In order to improve the livelihood security of the millions of livestock farmers and ensure the sustainable development in Bundelkhand region, the college is dedicated to addressing the difficulties of market-driven growth momentum in the animal sector through technical assistance.

Vision:

Imparting quality education in veterinary and animal sciences to undertake need based and multidisciplinary research, innovation for better animal health and productivity and developing and dissemination of various technologies for employment generation and to improve socio-economic status of the farmers through scientific livestock farming.

Mission:

To produce competent and technical manpower in the area of veterinary and reinforcement in animal health services through research, development and veterinary health services.
Generation and transfer of demand and basic technologies to farmers and organizations to improve animal health and management
Interface industry and stakeholder in the newer perspectives of open global market.
Validate indigenous traditional knowledge on scientific basis.

Objectives:

Imparting quality education in the field of Veterinary and Animal sciences.
To undertake priority based fundamental and advanced research for improving animal health and productivity.
Prepared and maintained anatomical specimens, including skeletons of domestic and wild animals, corrosion casts of visceral organs, and preserved tissue samples, to support veterinary anatomy education. Developed e-Learning modules, histology slide repositories, and visual teaching aids such as charts and models to enhance student understanding. Focused on species-specific variations, topographic anatomy, and Splanchnology for comprehensive teaching and learning
Conservation of indigenous livestock breeds.
Development and strengthening the marketing strategies of livestock products and its value addition.
Transfer of technology at door step of livestock farmers/entrepreneurs to adopt scientific animal husbandry practices.
Development of skilled human resource with professional knowledge in various veterinary and animal science domains.
Collaboration with ICAR institutes working in animal heath and productivity, Central & State govt. agriculture and animal husbandry department functionaries, Livestock industries, and NGOs to develop resurgent, sustainable, profit oriented and market based production system for livestock, poultry and allied sectors.

Year of Establishment: 2024

Thrust Areas of Research:

To conserve the indigenous livestock breeds for their sustainable utilization.
Comparative and Functional Anatomy.
Forensic Anatomy of different Animals
Neuroanatomy and Brain Mapping in Animals.
Histochemistry & Immunohistochemistry.
Microscopic Anatomy and Ultrastructure.
Histology & Histopathology in Disease Diagnosis.
Grading up of local non-descript cattle breed with superior, high genetic merit indigenous breeds.
Livestock based farming system models for the farmers of bundelkhand region.
To promote the utilization of manure and other by-products for improving the productivity of crops and enabling the farmers to practice organic farming.
To enhance disease resistance through genetics, molecular research and vaccination programme.
Development of region specific feeding strategies for optimum livestock production.
To integrate animal, human and environmental health for sustainable development
Development of sensor for diseases diagnosis and therapeutics.

Co-Curricular Activities:

Participation in Kisan Mela
Participation in subject related programmes (Agroclimatic zonal kisan mela, district and block level kisan gosthis, animal competition etc.)
Animal heath camps under university jurisdiction areas.
Various training programmes on different aspects of veterinary and animal sciences.
Arts and literary activities

Course Offered:

UG (BVSc&AH)

PROFESSIONAL YEAR-WISE DISTRIBUTION OF COURSES

FIRST PROFESSIONAL
Course Code	Course Title	Credit Hours
VAN	Veterinary Anatomy	4+3
VPY	Veterinary Physiology	4+1
LPM	Livestock Production Management	4+2
	Total	18
SECOND PROFESSIONAL
Course Code	Course Title	Credit Hours
VMC	Veterinary Microbiology	3+2
VPP	Veterinary Pathology	4+2
AGB	Animal Genetics and Breeding	3+1
ANN	Animal Nutrition	3+1
VBC	Veterinary Biochemistry	2+1
	Total	22
THIRD PROFESSIONAL
Course Code	Course Title	Credit Hours
VPT	Veterinary Pharmacology & Toxicology	4+1
VPH	Veterinary Public Health & Epidemiology	3+1
VPA	Veterinary Parasitology	3+2
LPT	Livestock Products Technology	2+1
VAE	Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education	3+1
VCP-I	Veterinary Clinical Practices – I	0+1
LFC	Livestock Farm Practices	0+2
	Total	24
FOURTH PROFESSIONAL
Course Code	Course Title	Credit Hours
VSR	Veterinary Surgery & Radiology	2+1
VMM	Veterinary Medicine	4+1
VGO	Veterinary Gynaecology & Obstetrics	2+1
VCP-II	Veterinary Clinical Practices-II	0+6
	Total	17
FIFTH PROFESSIONAL
Course Code	Course Title	Credit Hours
	Internship Program	S/US

Projects:

S.I. No	Name of the Project	Funding Agency	Budget of the Project
1.	RKVY-Goat Improvement	RKVY	70 Lakh
2.	NLM Project on Development of Goat Value Chain in Bundelkhand	NLM-Govt. of India	87 Lakh
3.	CEDA Project	Gov. of UP	500.60 Lakh
4.	In-House project on Kenkatha Cattle conservation	University	16.64 Lakh

Facilities:

S. No	Laboratories	Equipment
1.	UG Laboratories	Automatic Rotary Microtome, Histoembedder, Trinocular microscope with display. Analytical Biochemistry Lab, Kjeldahl instrument, Hematoanalyzer, Elisa Reader, PCR, Centrifuge, Fume-Hood, Laminar Air Flow, Microscopes, Incubator, Spectrophotometer, Water bath, Autoclave, Vortex, Gel Electrophoresis Apparatus, Viscometer, Refractometer, Ph Meter, Photocalorimeter, ECG, Computer Sets, Blotting Apparatus, Hot air oven, Colony counter, Weighing Balance, Magnetic Stirrer, Micro-Centifuge, Refractometer, PAGE, Refrigerated Centrifuge, Mc’intosh & Field’s Anaerobic Jar and Glass wares.
2.	Additional Facilities
I	Teaching Veterinary Clinical Complex (TVCC)	The Veterinary Clinical Complex serves as a practical training center where veterinary students gain hands-on experience in diagnosis, treatment, surgery, and animal care under real clinical settings.
II	Instructional Livestock Farm Complex (ILFC)	Units of different animal species viz. cattle, buffalo, goat, sheep, pig, horse and poultry for practical exposure and experience to students and livestock farmers.

Name of the Departments with Faculties:

S. No	Name of Department	Faculty Name
1.	Veterinary Anatomy & Histology	Dr. Swarup Debroy
2.	Livestock Production Management	Dr. Mayank Dubey Dr. Narendra Kumar
3.	Veterinary Physiology & Biochemistry	Dr. Archita Singh Dr. Ram Bachan Dr. Jitendra Kumar
4.	Animal Genetics & Breeding	Dr. Shiv Kumar Tyagi Dr. Uma Kant Verma
5.	Veterinary Pathology	Dr. Avantika Srivastav Dr. Alok Singh
6.	Veterinary Microbiology	Dr. Shalini Pandey Dr. Hansmeet Kour
7.	Animal Nutrition	Dr. Digvijay Singh

Distinguished Visitors:

Shri Surya Pratap Shahi (Minister Agriculture, Agriculture Education and Research) Govt. of UP inaugurated and visited Kenkatha Cattle Conservation Unit of college.
Director, Animal Husbandry Department, Govt. of UP & Joint Director Farm, Animal Husbandry Department, Govt. of UP visited the Buildings of Veterinary College, TVCC and ILFC and also visited the Fodder & Grassland Farm of University and Given valuable suggestions.
Dr. Devesh chaturvedi, ACS, Agriculture, Agriculture Education and Agriculture Research visited Gau Samvardhan evam Sanrakshan Unit (Cattle Conservation and Augmentation unit), BUAT, Banda on 07.12.2020.
Additional Director, Animal Husbandry and Chief Veterinary Officer, Banda visited newly constructed TVCC and ILFC Units of College.
Shri Rajesh Singh Sengar, Hon’ble Member, Gau Sewa Aayog, Uttar Pradesh visited Cattle and Buffalo units of ILFC.
Dr. H. N. Singh, Former Dean, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, ANDUAT, Ayodhya Visited the newly constructed TVCC and ILFC sites.
Shri Anurag Yadav (IAS), Secretary, Agriculture Education and Research visited TVCC and different units of ILFC.