National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP), ICAR and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) organized a two day workshop on ‘Impact of capacity building programs under NAIP’ on June 6-7, 2014 at AP Shinde Auditorium, NASC Complex, Pusa, New Delhi. The main purpose of the workshop was to present and discuss the findings of the impact evaluation study on capacity building programs under NAIP by IFPRI. The scientists from ICAR and agricultural universities were sent abroad to receive training in specialized research techniques. Post-training, scientists were expected to work on collaborative projects within the ICAR, which would further enrich their knowledge and skills, expand their research network and stimulate them’ to improve their productivity, creativity and quality of their research. The ICAR commissioned with IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute) to undertake an evaluation of these capacity building programs under NAIP in July 2012. The workshop shared the findings on the impact of capacity building programs under NAIP and evolve strategies for future capacity building programs

1. Experiences about National
Training Programme attended at
CIPHET, Ludhiana
By
S B N Rao
Principal Scientist, NIANP, Bangalore

2. National Training Programme on
Rapid and Nondestructive Evaluation of Food Quality and Safety Factors
using Spectroscopy and Biosensing Methods
(May 6 -19, 2011)
Course Director : S N Jha
Co-ordinator: K. Narsaiah
Organized by Director, CIPHET, Ludhiana
Sponsored by NAIP

3. Resource Persons
Name and Designation Address Field of Work
A. K. Bhunia
(Professor)
Dept. of Food Science,
Purdue University, USA
Molecular food microbiology
Dr. S.N.Jha (Pr. Scientist)
(Head AS & EC Division)
CIPHET, Ludhiana Non-destructive food quality evaluation
Dr. K. Narsaiah
(Sr. Scientist)
CIPHET, Ludhiana Microencapsulation and non destructive
microbial quality evaluation
Dr.Nachiket Kotwaliwale
(Sr. Scientist)
CIAE, Ludhiana Agricultural processing
Dr. K.S.Sandhu
(Sr. Vegetable Technologist)
PAU, Ludhiana Food safety and post harvest horticultural
quality evaluation

4. Participants
Dr. Kundan Kishore
(Sr. Scientist)
DRWA, Bhusansswar Post harvest management of fruits and
vegetables
Dr. Rakesh Bhardwaj
(Sr. Scientist)
NBPGR, Germplasm quality and biochemical
evaluation
V.K.Sehgal (Tech. Officer) DWR, Karnal Evaluation of wheat quality
Dr. S.B.N.Rao (Pr. Scientist) NIANP, Adugodi, Banglore Feed quality evaluation
Dr. N. S. Bhogal
(Sr. Scientist)
DRMR (I CAR), Sewar,
Bharatpur
Oil seed evaluation
Dr. Dinesh Kumar (Sr. Scientist) NRC for Citrus,
Er. Suresh Chandra
(Asstt. Professor)
SVPUA&T, Agricultural processing and food
engineering
A.D.Srikanth
(Research scholar)
IIT, Kharagpur Mathematical modelling of cryogenic
grinding
K.Charith Kumar
(Research scholar)
IIT, Kharagpur Simulation of grinding process
Murlidhar Meghwal
(Research scholar)
IIT, Kharagpur Medicinal value of cryogenic and ambient
ground Indian spices
Dr. P.K.Malaviya (Pr. Scientist) CAZRI, Pearl millet processing
Er. Manpreet Kaur Grewal
(Scientist)
CIPHET, Food processing and safety
Pranita Jaiswal (Sr. Scientist) CIPHET, Food quality, safety and biopocessing
Deepika Goswami (Scientist) CIPHET, Food grain and oil seed processing
Monika Sharma (Scientist) CIPHET, Food science
Soumitra Jash (Sr. Scientist) NIANP, Adugodi, Banglore Feed quality evaluation

5. Learning Experiences from the
Training

6. A.Training in the context of individual
and institutional skill gaps
The training is of 2 weeks duration, gave an exposure to
different techniques like NIRS, biosensors, pesticide
analysis/heavy metal analysis in food commodities,
Image analysis using machine vision.

7. B. Capacity built, work culture and
attitudinal changes
1. Helped in overcoming obstacles for achieving measurable and
sustainable results.
2. Understanding the importance of workculture to bring about
attitudinal changes among colleagues in sharing the resources
in an amicable way for win-win situations.

8. C. Planning, selection, training duration,
resource institution and resource person,
training implementation, and reporting.
Not applicable as it is National Training Programme, the selection of resource person/s is very
good. The resource persons are knowledgeble

9. D. Post-training utilization, linkage
and network developed and future
plan
A new laboratory is being set up wherein facilities for estimation of pesticide
residues, feed microscopy analysis using image software analysis were set up.
Our institute has been identified as one of the collaborating centers in the following
platforms.
1. Fodder Platform: Lead center is IGFRI, Jhansi
2. Transgenic Rice Platform: DRR, Hyderabad.