Pantnagar | |
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town | |
Coordinates: 28°58′N79°25′E / 28.97°N 79.41°E | |
Country | India |
State | Uttarakhand |
District | Udham Singh Nagar |
Elevation | 243.84 m (800.00 ft) |
Population (2001) | |
• Total | 35,820 |
Languages | |
• Official | Hindi, Kumaoni |
Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
PIN | 263145 |
Vehicle registration | UK 06 |
Website | usnagar |
Pantnagar is a town and a university campus in Udham Singh Nagar District, Uttarakhand. Nainital, Kashipur, Rudrapur, Kiccha and Haldwani are the major cities surrounding Pantnagar.
The town is home to the first agricultural university of India which was established on 17 November 1960. [1] The university was earlier called the Uttar Pradesh Agricultural University or Pantnagar University. It was renamed G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology. [1] keeping in view the contributions of Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant, the then Chief Minister of UP.
In recent years, an integrated industrial estate has been established near the campus which houses companies such as Tata Motors, Bajaj, Britannia, Hewlett-Packard, Hindustan Computers Ltd., Voltas, Schneider Electric, Nestle, Dabur, Vedanta Resources, etc., as a part of SIDCUL Industrial Area developed by the government owned State Industrial Development Corporation of Uttarakhand.
Before November 2000 Pantnagar was in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. After 9 November 2000 it became part of the new Indian state of Uttarakhand, which is located in the northern part of India. Uttarakhand was carved out of Himalayan and adjoining districts of Uttar Pradesh. After independence, development of the rural sector was considered the primary concern of the Government of India. In 1949, with the appointment of the Radhakrishnan University Education Commission, imparting of agricultural education through the setting up of rural universities became the focal point. Later, in 1954 an Indo-American team led by Dr. K.R. Damle, the Vice-President of ICAR, was constituted that arrived at the idea of establishing a ‘Rural University’ on the land-grant pattern of US. As a consequence a contract between the Government of India, the Technical Cooperation Mission and some land-grant universities of US, was signed to promote agricultural education in the country. The US universities included the universities of Tennessee, the Ohio State University, the Kansas State University, The University of Illinois, the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Missouri. The task of assisting Uttar Pradesh in establishing an agricultural university was assigned to the University of Illinois which signed a contract in 1959 to establish an agricultural University in the State. Dean, H.W. Hannah, of the University of Illinois prepared a blueprint for a Rural University to be set up at the Tarai State Farm in the district Nainital, UP. In the initial stage the University of Illinois also offered the services of its scientists and teachers. Thus, in 1960, the first agricultural university of India, UP Agricultural University, came into being by an Act of legislation, UP Act XI-V of 1958. The Act was later amended under UP Universities Re-enactment and Amendment Act 1972 and the University was rechristened as Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology keeping in view the contributions of Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant, the then Chief Minister of UP. The University was dedicated to the Nation by the first Prime Minister of India Pt Jawaharlal Nehru on 17 November 1960.
The G.B. Pant University is a symbol of successful partnership between India and the United States. The establishment of this university brought about a revolution in agricultural education, research and extension. It paved the way for setting up of 31 other agricultural universities in the country
The credit for starting the functioning of the University without losing any time goes to the warm and resourceful personality of the first Vice-Chancellor, late Dr. Kenneth Anthony Parker Stevenson (1-12-58 to 2-1-64), who could keep people fruitfully engaged on the university farm, the labs and the classrooms despite the lurking fear of wild animals roaming the area. The other Vice-Chancellors to be remembered for their distinctive contributions in the development of the University are :
Serial No. | Name | Time |
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1 | Raja Bajrang Bhadur Singh | 20-12-1964 to 18- 01- 1966 |
2 | Dr. Dhyan Pal Singh | 28-1-66 to 19-1-75 |
3 | Shri Shiv Prasad Pandey | 20-1-75 to 20-4-77 |
4 | Dr. Dharma Pal Singh | 22-10-77 to 22-6-78 |
5 | Mr. Narendra Shankar Mathur | 1-8-78 to 12-5-80 |
6 | Mr. Anand Sarup | 27-8-80 to 7-2-83 |
7 | Mr. Kripa Narayan | 9-2-83 to 21-1-87 |
8 | Dr. Kailash Nath Katiyar | 27-1-87 to 26-7-87 |
9 | Dr. Mahatim Singh | 31-7-87 to 30-7-90 |
10 | Dr. Hari Govind Singh | 31-7-90 to 17-12-93 |
11 | Dr. Suresh Chandra Mudgal | 17-12-93 to 18-2-97 |
12 | Dr. Surendra Bahadur Singh | 18-2-97 to 17-2-2000 |
13 | Dr. J. B. Chowdhary | 17-2-2000 to 15-4-2002 |
14 | Dr. Amresh Kumar | |
15 | Dr. Prem Lal Gautam | 18-6-2002 to 11-10-2007 |
16 | Dr. A.P. Sharma | |
17 | Dr. B.S. Bisht | |
18 | Dr. Subhash Kumar | |
19 | Dr. Alok Jain | |
20 | Dr. Matthew Prasad | |
21 | Dr. H.S. Dhami | |
22 | Dr. Mangla Rai | 21-03-2015 to 26-09-2016 |
23 | Dr. J. Kumar | 27-09-2016 to 25-09-2017 |
24 | Prof Aditya Kumar Misra | From 26 to 09-2017 |
The Campus appears impressive today with its well-tended fields, a network of roads, housing colonies, street lighting, a telephone exchange, hospitals, marketing centres, a water supply section, a community radio station 90.8 MHz, canteens, 6 primary schools and 3 secondary schools. The main campus lies in Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttarakhand at 29° N latitude and 79° E longitude at an elevation of 243.8 m above the mean sea level. This main campus has the area responsibility for the entire Uttarakhand representing plains, Tarai, Bhabar and hill areas. However, to provide service to the hill region its other stations are situated at Ranichauri (Tehri district), Majhera (Nainital district) and at Lohaghat-Sui (Champawat district). There are 763 teachers and officers 59 technical staff, 631 administrative and ministerial personnel and 1425 class III employees, amounting to a total strength of 2878. The number of students in the University ranges between 2800 and 3000. Thus, the teacher taught ratio is about 1:6 and student-staff ratio is about 1:1.
Pantnagar University houses ten colleges:
There are primary and secondary level schools located on the university campus. These include Campus school, Bal Nilyam Shishu Vidyalaya, Primary school, Pantnagar Inter College, Government Girls Inter College and Saraswati Shishu Mandir.
Climate data for Pantnagar (1985–2010, extremes 1985–2010) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 28.6 (83.5) | 34.0 (93.2) | 36.7 (98.1) | 41.5 (106.7) | 44.3 (111.7) | 45.6 (114.1) | 42.1 (107.8) | 39.6 (103.3) | 38.6 (101.5) | 38.0 (100.4) | 32.4 (90.3) | 29.4 (84.9) | 45.6 (114.1) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 20.3 (68.5) | 23.8 (74.8) | 29.0 (84.2) | 35.2 (95.4) | 36.7 (98.1) | 36.0 (96.8) | 33.2 (91.8) | 32.7 (90.9) | 32.3 (90.1) | 30.8 (87.4) | 27.5 (81.5) | 23.0 (73.4) | 30.0 (86.0) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 5.4 (41.7) | 7.4 (45.3) | 11.3 (52.3) | 15.7 (60.3) | 20.9 (69.6) | 24.0 (75.2) | 24.9 (76.8) | 24.6 (76.3) | 22.8 (73.0) | 16.7 (62.1) | 10.4 (50.7) | 6.3 (43.3) | 15.9 (60.6) |
Record low °C (°F) | −2.2 (28.0) | −0.6 (30.9) | 0.0 (32.0) | 0.0 (32.0) | 10.5 (50.9) | 17.5 (63.5) | 13.0 (55.4) | 19.3 (66.7) | 16.2 (61.2) | 8.3 (46.9) | 1.2 (34.2) | 0.2 (32.4) | −2.2 (28.0) |
Average rainfall mm (inches) | 23.1 (0.91) | 34.1 (1.34) | 16.1 (0.63) | 16.5 (0.65) | 52.1 (2.05) | 160.5 (6.32) | 402.8 (15.86) | 417.3 (16.43) | 280.8 (11.06) | 40.7 (1.60) | 4.5 (0.18) | 16.8 (0.66) | 1,465.3 (57.69) |
Average rainy days | 1.4 | 2.3 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 3.6 | 7.8 | 13.5 | 14.3 | 9.2 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 58.1 |
Average relative humidity (%) (at 17:30 IST) | 68 | 57 | 45 | 31 | 39 | 53 | 73 | 77 | 74 | 68 | 70 | 71 | 60 |
Source: India Meteorological Department [4] |
The Integrated Industrial Estate, Pantnagar of the State Industrial Development Corporation of Uttarakhand (SIDCUL) houses the companies like Britannia Industries, HP, HCL, Voltas, Schneider Electric, Ashok Leyland, Delphi-TVS Diesel Systems Limited, Vedanta Resources, RSB Transmission, Bajaj Motors Ltd. and New Allenberry Works setting up their manufacturing units. [5] and Tata Motors [6] [7] Rane Madras limited, Rane NSK Steering Systems Private Ltd.,
Between 2005 and 2008, the Government of Uttarakhand offered a subsidy to Jagson Airlines to start a daily scheduled flight between Pantnagar and New Delhi. [9] The airline used an 18-seater Dornier 228 on the route.[ citation needed ] This was, however, withdrawn in 2008 when the runway size was increased. The government then invited Deccan Aviation to fly on the Delhi - Pantnagar route. [10] Kingfisher Airlines, which took over Deccan Aviation, undertook seasonal flights to Pantnagar as the weather did not allow it to fly all round the year. [11] Air India started flights from Delhi to Pantnagar using ATR 80 seater aircraft from the third week of Oct 2014.
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Udham Singh Nagar is a district of Uttarakhand state in northern India. Rudrapur is the district headquarter. The district consists of nine Tehsils named Bajpur, Gadarpur, Jaspur, Kashipur, Khatima, Kichha, Nanakmatta, Rudrapur, Sitarganj. The district is located in the Terai region, and is part of Kumaon Division. It is bounded on the north by Nainital District, on the northeast by Champawat District, on the east by Nepal, and on the south and west by Bareilly, Rampur, Moradabad, Pilibhit and Bijnor District of Uttar Pradesh state. The district was created on 29 September 1995, by Mayawati government out of Nainital District. It is named for freedom fighter and Indian revolutionary Udham Singh.
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Campus School is a co-ed school located in the university campus of Pantnagar district Udham Singh Nagar, previously district Nainital Uttarakhand. It was established in 1970 by the collaboration of Sisters of Notre Dame and Pantnagar University and is currently managed by a committee of management with the Vice Chancellor as Patron. The Notre Dame sisters came to India in 1947 and have since then established several schools in the North. The school, affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education, caters mostly to the children of people working in academic institutions in the Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology. The first batch of High School passed out in 1977 and 10+2 in 1986. Many students of the school have gone on to elite institutions such as IITs, IIMs, NID [National Institute of Design]NITIE( National Institute of Industrial Engineering), IRMA, AIIMS (Delhi), AFMC (Pune), NDA/CDS, JIPMER, Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC), etc. and have also gone abroad through GRE/TOEFL for higher education. The school yearly conducts book fairs, annual day function, national festival celebrations, birth and death anniversaries of great personalities and much more. The faculty is experienced and most have a PhD and few also have done specialisations in their respective subjects. Few of them are Dr. Prachi Pareek, Dr. Bhuwan Chandra Pathak, Dr. D N Pandey, Dr. Rashmi Verma, Dr. Renu Panwar, Dr. Pradeep Kumar Joshi, Dr. A K Tyagi and others. With Mrs. Shweta S. Budhani along with Mrs. Jaspreet Kaur Arora, Mrs. Puspa Pathak and Mr. Ravindra Kumar Tewari having done their specialisations in Organic chemistry, Hindi and Mathematics respectively. The school is represented in various national and international quiz competitions like Bournvita Quiz Contest and its students have also won many scholarships such as NTSE, Mathematics Olympiad,Gk Olympiad, International English Olympiad etc. Also, there are well-developed science practical labs that is, for physics, chemistry and biology separately, and 2-3 practicals take place weekly. Also for subjects like geography and maths. The school also consists of a well furnished library with more than 12 thousand books. The school has a double storied building and a huge playground. A new Multi-Purpose Hall has been constructed and this was established on 2 October 2014. The alumni of the school are based across the world and doing well professionally and personally. They are strong pillars of the community in their respective regions and contribute constructively to society. The school establishes an environment in which the character and personality of students grows steadily to maturity in all aspects of life, spiritual, moral, social, intellectual and physical.
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