Students Societies

Introduction The University provides opportunities to enable students develop the required technical, scientific, professional, and social skills required to be successful graduates. The formal learning in the classrooms, laboratories, farms and fields is limited to the acquisition of technical skills in Agriculture. However, for success as a professional and a citizen in a rapidly changing world, one must acquire a range of social skills, such as the ability to organize, communicate effectively, plan and carry out tasks in any given situation under various constrains, be able to work with a range of different field in a tactful and effective manner, having a positive attitude to what is undertaken, being responsible and reliable, being able to cope with sudden unforeseen situations in an unruffled an amicable manner etc. These skills are developed best in a non academic setting outside the classrooms. For the development of these skills, the University provides opportunities in sports and in students’ organizations.

Objectives of Student Societies

The University enables the students to carry out activities in a range of students’ associations. These are listed out in the first handbook of the University written in 1947 by Sir Ivor Jennings. These are valid even today.

1. Acts as a representative organ of the students.

2. Organize lectures, debates, concerts, dances, social and other activities.

3. Organize games/sports.

4. Manage common rooms and restaurants.