In the inaugural session Dr. J. P. Mishra, Director, ICAR-ATARI, Zone-II, Jodhpur mentioned that the project of Scheduled Caste Sub-Plan is being implemented by ICAR-ATARI-II, Jodhpur since the year 2019-20 for scheduled caste dominating districts. He also focussed the demand of farmers vis-à-vis implementation of scheme by the system and stressed that footprint of KVK should deeply penetrate through intervention. The output analysis to be documented to exhibit footprint of KVKs with collaboration of ATARI/SAU/ICAR Institutions. The success stories are to be compiled, collated and interpreted with conversion to case studies by designing the same with objectives which are to be exhibited by 2025 for earmarking the 10 years of establishment of ATARI, he mentioned. The scheme need to focus more on to community-centric actions rather than individual centric interventions.

Dr. Pradeep Pagaria, Director, Directorate of Extension Education, Agricultural University, Jodhpur mentioned the importance of the day, i.e., Kisan Diwas on which the review meeting is organised. He stated that there are about 17 per cent of scheduled caste population in the country. He informed the KVKs has to document the results of their activities in a proper way for providing inputs to policy makers.

In the Annual Review Meeting Sr. Scientists & Heads of 17 KVKs (11 from Rajasthan and 6 from Haryana) and presented the progress made during 2023-24 and 2024-25 and Annual Action Plan for the year 2025-26. Source ICAR-ATARI, Zone-II, Jodhpur