Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University
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Bikaner, Rajasthan
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State University
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1987
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UGC, NAAC, ASCI
Bikaner, Rajasthan
State University
1987
UGC, NAAC, ASCI
Swami Keshwanand, after whom the RAU has been renamed as Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner (SKRAU, Bikaner) vide Gazette notification No. F. 4 (2) vidhi/ 2/ 2009 dated June 09, 2009, was born at the village Magloona in Sikar district of present-day Rajasthan in the year 1883. His actual name was Birama. The famine of 1899 forced the 16-year-old Birama to leave the desert region and move to Punjab in search of livelihood. Driven by an ineffable spiritual quest, he became a sanyasi in 1904 and was inducted into the Udasin sec. He commenced his education at the Sadhu Ashram Fazilka. He learned the Hindi and Sanskrit languages and the Devanagari and Gurmukhi scripts at the Ashram. At the Kumbha Mela held at Prayag in 1905, Mahatma Hiranandji Avadhut conferred on Birama the new name “Swami Keshwanand”.
The Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Veterinary and Animal Science was founded in 1987. This state agricultural university is located in Bikaner, Rajasthan, India. It has been around since 1987. It has recently undergone some changes, though the basic structure is still the same. The university offers undergraduate and graduate programs in animal science, agricultural engineering, and veterinary medicine. The university processes four colleges: two colleges of agriculture, one college each of Home Science and Veterinary and Animal Sciences, and an institute of Agri-Business Management. Education is the process by which an individual is encouraged and enabled to fully develop his or her potential; it may also serve the purpose of equipping the individual with what is necessary to be a productive member of society. Through teaching and learning the individual acquires and develops knowledge and skills.
The term education is often used to refer to formal education. However, the word’s broader meaning covers a range of experiences, from formal learning to the building of understanding and knowledge through day-to-day experiences. Ultimately, all that we experience serves as a form of education. All colleges and universities aim to impart quality education to all aspirants. Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University concisely aims to impart and promote knowledge related to agriculture.
Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University is authorized to provide instructions in Agriculture and its allied sciences. It has also been authorized (to impart) agricultural learning, which the University may deem fit. It is empowered to maintain academic institutions, dealing with agriculture, home science, agri-business management, etc., to carry out instructions in these faculties, hold examinations, and confer degree(s).
The Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Veterinary and Animal Science has been arranging scholarships on the premise of benefit and additionally on the premise of own circle of relatives profits and reservation category.
INR 10,000 every 12 months for meritorious college students with Intermediate graduate marks.
Scholarships via way of means of the Government of Rajasthan vary from INR hundred and forty to INR 740 consistent per month depending on the course, hostel stay, type, of course, being undertaken.
INR three hundred consistent with the month and INR 750 is consistent with 12 months for college students whose own circle of relatives' profits are much less than INR 1,00,000 consistent with 12 months.
Students decided on through the ICAR examination and are from different states: INR 1,000 consistent with a month at some point of taking a look at years.
Swami Keshwanand, founded more than 300 schools, 50 hostels and innumerable libraries, social service centers and museums. In 1911, within a few years of his initiation into the Udasin Dasnami sect as a sanyasi, Swami Keshawanand started the “Vedant Pushp Vatika” library within the precincts of the Sadhu Ashram Fazilka.
It was Swami Keshwanand’s long time endeavour to eradicate social evils like untouchability, illiteracy, child marriage, alcohol abuse, moral dissipation etc. Swami Keshwanand’s deep understanding of the rural society of the desert region can be gleaned from his book “Maru Bhumi Seva Karya”. In this book, he has explained the peculiarities of the Desert region, identified the problems and suggested rational and feasible solutions.
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