G. B. Gasp University of Agriculture and Technology otherwise called GBPUA&T or Pantnagar University, is the main farming college of India. It was introduced by Jawaharlal Nehru on 17 November 1960 as the "Uttar Pradesh Agricultural University" (UPAU). Later the name was changed to "Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology" in 1972 in memory of the principal Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, statesman and Bharat Ratna beneficiary Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant.

The University was announced as the best among the various State Universities in India, in 1997. The University lies in the grounds town of Pantnagar in the area of Udham Singh Nagar in the province of Uttarakhand. The college is viewed as the harbinger of Green Revolution in India.

Campus

The University grounds at Pantnagar is spread in a range of 10,016.29-section of land which makes it the second biggest college on the planet, as far as adjacent region. Before 2002, the college owned16,000-section of land, out of which 3,339-section of land was exchanged to State Industrial Development Corporation of Uttarakhand (SIDCUL) for building up an Integrated Industrial home, in this manner leaving 12,661-section of land with the college.

Administration and Organization

In the Indian advanced education framework, Pantnagar is delegated a State Agricultural University (SAU). The college is in the purview of the state government. The Governor of the state is ex-officio Chancellor of the college and (s)he selects a Vice-chancellor (VC), who works as a full-time Chief official of the college. The VC seats a 13-membered Board of Management, which is the most noteworthy official body of the college and directs fundamentally budgetary and authoritative issues and furthermore approves suggestions of different gatherings of the college.

Education System

The college moved from a trimester to a semester framework in the 1980s to diminish the workload on understudies. There are 200– 210 net instructional days for each year, which is most elevated in India. The base length of all UG projects of the college is 8 semesters (4 years), aside from BVSc&AH (10 semesters, 5-year). All the UG programs are implanted with broad down to earth preparing and incorporate one semester of necessary temporary job/work understanding.

All Masters programs are of 4 semester (2 years), aside from MCA (6 semester/3 years). Ordinary length for PhD is 6 semesters. The college takes after a credit based GPA framework for assessment. In 1998, it moved from the US style 5-point and letter review framework to a 10-point GPA based framework, for simple transformation to rates, which are all the more normally utilized as a part of India.

Rankings

As per the QS World University Rankings for BRICS 2015, a positioning of the best colleges in the five BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), has put the college among the main 150 colleges.

Contact Details:

GB Pant University
District - Udham Singh Nagar,
Pantnagar, Uttarakhand 263145
Phone: 094583 22830
Fax: +91-5944-233473
E-mails: registrar@gbpuat.ernet.in, registrar_pantversity@rediffinail.com