SKUAST-J Veterinarians working in unsafe buildings of Old Campus

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Daily Excelsior
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Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 23: The Veterinary Scientists and students at R S Pura Old Campus of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST) of Jammu are working in unsafe buildings, which can collapse any time.
The flash floods following rains, which have become a regular phenomenon here for the last 15 years during monsoon season, have severely damaged the building of this Old Campus of Faculty of Veterinary Science at R S Pura.
This year also, torrential rains damaged all the divisions situated at ground floor of this Veterinary campus. Division of Animal Genetics & Breeding (AGB), Animal Nutrition (AN), Livestock Products Technology (LPT), Livestock Production Management (LPM), Animal Husbandry Extension Education (AHEE), Vety Parasitology, Vety Anatomy and Dean’s office were the major sufferers.
Along with flood water, a huge amount of garbage has entered the state of technology laboratories causing heavy losses to expensive equipments and chemicals worth lakhs, which got washed away.  There is a huge seepage of rain water from the roof damaging the buildings. All the official record and data of scientists has been reduced to rubbish due to the garbage destroying the computers and files.
Intensity of flood can be gauged from the fact that many equipments, which were installed using heavy machinery, have been broken into pieces. The scientists are yet to come up with the losses as their hard work and dedication of years has been vanished owing to nature’s fury. In the present era, where research in Veterinary is being highly promoted and the State Government is thinking to establish a separate Veterinary Varsity in the State, it is surprising that the Veterinary Campus of SKUAST-Jammu is facing such hardships for survival for the last 15 years.
President of SKUAST- Teaching Association Jammu, Dr Vikas Sharma today visited the old campus of FVSc at R S Pura with the executives of the association comprising of Dr Vivek, Manohar Arya, Dr Pardeep K Rai, Dr Vinod Gupta and discussed the matter with the Dean, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Dr SK Gupta.

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