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Name : Dr Kuldeep Singh
Address : Head, Department of Extension Education, PAU, Ludhiana
Phone No : 0161-2401961-321
Mobile No : +91 9888900329
E-mail : hodee@pau.edu
Brief Introduction

Dr Kuldeep Singh joined as Head, Department of Extension Education, PAU, Ludhiana on 11.11.2020. He started his service with university on 21.03.1996 as Asstt. Professor (Ext. Edu.) at KVK, Kapurthala. He has served as Deputy Director (Training) at KVK Samrala (Ldh) and later at Nurmahal (Jalandhar) where he was promoted as Associate Director (Trg). He has vast experience of 25 years in the field of extension education especially extension services. He has been instrumental in addressing issues like depleting water table, paddy straw management and generating awareness among the farming community for judicious use of the natural resources wherever he was posted. He has organized numerous training courses, field days, campaigns, seminars and exhibitions for the transfer of technologies recommended by PAU. He pioneered in developing KVK, Jalandhar as a model institution with state of art ‘Technology Park’, Integrated Farming System model, Demonstration units, Crop Cafeteria, product sale centre, technology hut etc., to name a few to cater the needs of farmers. He used ICTs to reach the un-reached farmers and also utilized the media like DD and AIR Jalandhar, in dissemination of modern technologies among farmers in whole of the state especially during the current Covid-19 pandemic. He has strong bonding with powerful social reformers and environmentalists who have collaborated in number of campaigns for spreading awareness about environmental issues. He has transformed twelve adopted villages in the district and also developed five nutri-smart villages. He was instrumental for entrepreneurship development among young farmers and farm women. He was awarded the Dr (Mrs.) Satwant Kaur Memorial Best Extension Worker Award for the year 2015. His enthusiasm and action oriented approach got him G.S. Khush Team Award for Excellence in Transfer of Technology to the farmers for the year 2016-2017 and Nanaji Deshmukh ICAR award in recognition of outstanding Inter-disciplinary Team Research in Agricultural and Allied Sciences- 2019. He is also a recipient of certificate of Appreciation from Honorable Vice Chancellor PAU Ludhiana. He has published/presented 76 research papers, abstracts and popular articles in national and international journals and conferences. He has guided three post graduate students.

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