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Projecting that India’s colonisation volition scope 1.67 cardinal by 2050, Joykrishna Jena, Deputy Director-General (Fisheries Science), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), connected Monday urged graduates of the to assistance rise the fisheries sector’s yearly maturation from the existent 6% to 9% to bolster nutrient and livelihood security.
Delivering the convocation code connected the university’s Nagapattinam campus, Mr. Jena said the fisheries assemblage indispensable measurement some accumulation and worth summation to conscionable rising home request and make employment. “The relation of fisheries professionals is important successful transforming India into a starring planetary shaper and user of prime fish,” helium said and stressed connected the sector’s publication to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Referring to nationalist argumentation enactment for the sector, Mr. Jena said the Union Budget for 2025–26 has earmarked ₹2,704 crore for fisheries. He called upon the caller graduates to absorption connected sustainable aquaculture practices, post-harvest technologies, and entrepreneurship that tin adhd worth to fisheries concatenation and make agrarian employment. He urged stronger collaboration betwixt academia, industry, and authorities to accelerate innovations that rise productivity without degrading marine resources.
Governor and Chancellor of the assemblage R. N. Ravi presided implicit the convocation, successful which 435 students received degrees successful idiosyncratic portion 77 candidates volition beryllium awarded their degrees by post. The degrees conferred included 283 Bachelor of Fisheries Science (B.F.Sc.), 27 B.Tech (Fisheries Engineering), 11 B.Tech (Energy and Environmental Engineering), 2 B.Tech (Fisheries Nautical Technology), 26 B.Tech (Biotechnology), 19 B.Tech (Food Technology), 17 B.B.A (Fisheries Business Management), 53 Bachelor of Vocation courses, 46 Master of Fisheries Science (M.F.Sc.), 3 M.B.A (Fisheries Business Management), 4 Master of Technology, and 21 Ph.D. degrees.
The Governor presented 86 medals to meritorious students crossed programmes. Among notable achievers, from the 2020–21 batch S. Bhavadharani secured 10 medals successful B.F.Sc., portion M. Brindha won 3 medals successful B. Tech (Fisheries Engineering). For the 2021–22 batch, S. Kavi Revanth topped the database with 11 medals successful B.F.Sc. In the 2022–23 batch, P.N. Aishwarya obtained 7 medals successful M.F.Sc., and M. Joshna received 4 medals successful the Ph.D. programme.
Vice-Chancellor N. Felix, successful his yearly report, highlighted the university’s outreach done 40 constituent units crossed Tamil Nadu and elaborate advancement successful education, research, and hold activities. He noted that each twelvemonth 30–40 postgraduate and doctoral students from TNJFU articulation ICAR’s Central Institute of Fisheries Education (CIFE) successful Mumbai for higher grooming and research.
