CoF golden jubilee celebration starts on positive note, Karnataka minister assures new building

Mangaluru: College of Fisheries (CoF), Mangaluru, that is in mid of its year-long golden jubilee birthday party, could not have asked for a extra very best reward.

Sorely lacking in bodily infrastructure for its rising academic needs, CoF is now all set to get a golden jubilee development, courtesy Karnataka minister for animal husbandry and fisheries, Venkatrao Nadagouda, who inaugurated the institute's golden jubilee birthday party on Tuesday.

Faced with the customary memorandum that ministers concerned visiting institutions under their division get, Nadagouda, at the inaugural function of the birthday party, said he would get finances sanctioned for the golden jubilee development.

“I'm really not in a direct position to fulfil all of your demands, but for the reason that the institution is celebrating its golden jubilee, I will be able to attempt to ensure that the CoF will get a golden jubilee development to satisfy its needs,” he said.

MN Venugopal, dean (fisheries), KVAFSU flagged the seven-point charter of demands with the minister, who was forthright in declaring that the CoF would get its golden jubilee development.

Started in 1969 under then University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Bengaluru, CoF has not noticed commensurate enlargement in infrastructure since then, despite the fact that it has noticed fast upward push in research, lecturers and extension activities.


Venugopal pointed that the college, regardless of having finished 50 years, had not got any new development. This was inflicting serious issues for graduate, post-graduate and PhD students at the campus. This was a significant lacunae every now and then when faculties of fisheries throughout India had been striving to excel academically, he said, including lots of the constructions at the campus at Yekkur had been 50 years outdated and short of consistent repairs and upkeep.


Venugopal in particular stressed out at the need for a dedicated post-graduate and research block. This was essential protecting in view that CoF was expected to be at the vanguard of research to protect the nation’s marine wealth and resolve issues that fishermen confronted, the dean pointed.


A one-time grant from the state executive was very much needed to meet this call for, Venugopal said, including, this is able to vastly help the college succeed in its targets.


CoF golden jubilee celebration starts on positive note, Karnataka minister assures new building CoF golden jubilee celebration starts on positive note, Karnataka minister assures new building Reviewed by Kailash on July 19, 2018 Rating: 5
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