Department of Agricultural Biotechnology established on 15th Jan, 2009 owes its origin to the erstwhile Biotechnology Centre which came into existence in the year 1991 and later renamed as Advanced Centre of Hill Bioresources & Biotechnology in 2002. The department runs M.Sc. Agricultural Biotechnology program with financial support from Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India. This program has collaboration with Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (CSIR), Palampur for the purpose of teaching activities.

 

Erstwhile Programme Directors of DAB

Name	From	To
Dr. B. M. Singh	14-09-1990	30-11-2000
Dr. G. S. Sethi	01-12-2000	05-07-2002
Dr. S. K. Sharma	06-07-2002	24-06-2005
Dr. S. R. Thakur	25-06-2005	05-06-2009

 

 

Head (Acting)

Name	From	To
Dr. S. R. Thakur	06-06-2009	30-04-2011
Dr. T. R. Sharma	02-05-2011	19-02-2014
Dr. Satish Paul	20-02-2014	26-11-2014
Dr. P. K. Mehta	16.05.2017	29.08.2017
Dr. H.K. Chaudhary	30.08.2017	21.08.2020

 

 

Head (Regular)

Name	From	To
Dr. T. R. Sharma	27-11-2014	15-05-2017

 

 

Head (Present)

Name	From	To
Dr. K.D. Sharma	22.08.2020