Uttar Banga Krishi Vishwavidyalaya - [UBKV]

Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya (UBKV) came into being as the second State Agricultural University (SAU) in 2001 with two faculties, Agriculture and Horticulture. The University has its origin from the establishment of the North Bengal Campus of erstwhile Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya. The satellite campus of Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya was set up in 1979 at the erstwhile Gram Sebak Training Centre (GSTC) for offering B.Sc (Ag.) Honours Course for 30 numbers of Students per year. A tiny library that remained at GSTC at that time was used for the Students and teachers of the campus. In 1990 the North Bengal campus was shifted from Cooch Behar District town to Pundibari to provide more space/area for the said campus and the library was housed at the first floor of the Academic Building of Faculty of Agriculture where the present Central Library exists. A unit of Faculty of Horticulture of BCKV was established in 1997 for offering B.Sc. (Hort.) Course and thereby the strength of students was augmented. During 1999, Masters’ Degree programme was introduced in five departments from this Campus and there after in 2001 the State Govt. upgraded this Campus and established UBKV. From 2014 the intake capacity of Agriculture and Horticulture at UG and PG level has been enhanced. A Separate College of Agriculture, Majhian, Balurghat has been established. After the creation of UBKV, the library of North Bengal Campus was named as Central Library. In 2005, the third Faculty named Faculty of Technology was established for the purpose of offering B. Tech. in Agricultural Engineering with an intake capacity of 15 per year. During this course of time from 1979 to till date i.e. more than 30 years, the number of books has increased. In fact, the library has undergone a fair and steady growth and development during this span of time.

The University authority has been perceived the necessity of the University Library and gradually it took a good shape. Though originally it was housed in a single room, now it has been extended to another room and the proposal to constitute a separate library building has approved by the State Govt.

The newly constructed Central Library, UBKV is located in the main campus of Pundibari. The two storey building should be opened very soon and it has a total plinth 27,000 square fit and it will be emerged with suitable and advanced library system. The library will be equipped with state of the art hardware, software, power backup and IT Labs for modern library and information services. Library provides WiFi facility, through which library users can connect their laptops and other smart devices to access e-resources as long as they like.

The library is one of the most important entities of the University, which facilitates the reading, teaching, consultation, study, research and extension programs etc. Both the faculty and students extensively use the facility the UBKV central library has therefore given key prominence to the development of the library facility at the head quarter (Pundibari) as well as College of Agriculture, Majhian and others four Regional Research Station.

The collection of information sources in print and electronic media covers all subject in the thrust areas of the university plus subjects of general interest. Since its beginning, efforts have been made to meet the requirements of teaching research and extension activities of the University and so the collection of central library has been increased moderately. The details of which is furnished below:

‘URKUND’ anti-plagiarism and similarities check software is being successfully used by different faculties of UBKV. The Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya is a State Agricultural University under the jurisdiction of ICAR and the University is under the section 2f of UGC Act. It is mandatory for every thesis at the time of final submission of PhD degree.

The Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya desires to use this software free of cost from Inflibnet Centres. So, you are requested to kindly provide the same to this University at the earliest commence and oblige.

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