From sheep pen to PG Research Institute

The station may have started off as a sheep farm, but from mid-2011, it has officially been upgraded to a Post-Graduate Research Institute for Animal Sciences, informs Dr Thyagarajan. The change will not be drastic, assert the staff because they’re used to having students, interns and researchers popping in from TANUVAS almost all year round.“Even now we are offering four PG courses here and there will be a controlled intake of just two scholars per course,” explains Dr Kumaraswamy. It is a point of pride that the facility pull their teaching coats out of the cupboard more often, though most of the learning is bound to happen in the pens and fields. Intake will begin by mid-September this year.