Achievements

Awards & Recognitions

  1. Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Memorial Prize for the Biennium 1986-87 from ICAR, New Delhi
  2. Hari Om Ashram Trust 1980, Award from ICAR, New Delhi
  3. ICAR Team Award 1983 from ICAR, New Delhi
  4. Hari Om Ashram Trust 1985, Award from ICAR, New Delhi
  5. ICAR National Professor: One (1994-2001)
  6. ICAR National Fellows: 3 (1980-1986; 1983-1993; & 1984-1994)
  7. Commonwealth Academic Staff Scholarship, U. K. from Association of Commonwealth Universities, London, U.K. for PhD degree.
  8. Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship, U.K. from Association of Commonwealth Universities, London, U.K. for PDF
  9. Scholarship/ Fellowship from France, Switzerland, USSR governments for PhD degree
  10. Fellow Award,(1996, 2012-13) of National Academy of Veterinary Science (India)
  11. Fellow Award, (2002) National Academy of Agricultural Sciences
  12. Fellow Award 2010-11 of Society for Applied Biotechnology of India
  13. Best Teacher Award 2004-05 from (ICAR sponsored) CCS Haryana Agric. University, Hisar
  14. The Regional Research Centre on FMD, Hisar was adjudged as the “Best Regional Centre” of ICAR-Project Directorate on FMD Amongst all the Regional Centres, Continuously for Four Years during Annual Meetings 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14.
  15. National level Young Scientist Award by Association of Microbiologists of India
  16. Silver Jubilee Gold Medal for Women for best Doctoral Thesis in CCS HAU, Hisar
  17. V. D. Kashyap Memorial Gold Medal for best Ph.D. Research worker in CCS HAU, Hisar
  18. Manju Mutreja Memorial Gold Medal for best Ph.D. research work in CCS HAU, Hisar
  19. V. Bhat Memorial Award for best research paper published in Indian Journal of Microbiology
  20. "Best Poster Award" Awarded during Annual Conference of IAVMI held at DUVASU, Mathura (November 2014)
  21. Rajender Pal Gold medal for Best Thesis at Master’s level 2004
  22. P. Madhusudan Gold Medal Award 2009 from Indian Assoc. for Advancement of Veterinary Research
  23. "Young Women Scientist award" of Society for Applied Biotechnology of India.
  24. Dr R. N. Srivastava Gold Medal for Best Thesis in MVSc (2013-14).
  25. Member, Editorial Board of the Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine for 2009- 2011 published by Elseviers (Singapore) Pvt. Ltd. (online e-publication);
  26. Member, Editorial Board of Advances in Veterinary and Animal Sciences
  27. Editor, "Research & Reviews-Journal of Immunology"- International E-journal [http://www.stmjournals.com/RRJOI/journal-of-immunology.html]
  28. Editor, IAVMI journal
  29. Member, Editorial Board, The Haryana Veterinarian
  30. Many positions in the local chapter and Central Executives of Scientific Societies
  31. Best Oral Presentation Award awarded to Dr. Akhil Kumar Gupta in 37th Annual Convention of Indian Society of Veterinary Medicine held at RAJUVAS, Bikaner from Feb. 1-3, 2019
  32. Naresh Kumar Kakker honored for delivering Invited talk on “Foot-and-Mouth Disease in India” in “Brainstorming Workshop on Foot-and-Mouth Disease” at ICAR- CIRB, Hisar in September, 2019
  33. Certificate of Appreciation awarded to Regional Research Center on FMD, Dept. of Veterinary Microbiology, LUVAS, Hisar. ICAR-Directorate of FMD awarded "A" grade to RRC Hisar for outstanding performance and lasting contribution to FMD sero-surveillance and sero-monitoring in the state of Haryana for the year 2020.
  34. First Prize awarded to Dr. Swati Dahiya for Oral Presentation during one of the technical session of XXXIV Annual Convention of IAVMI organized by LUVAS, Hisar, Haryana from May 27-28, 2022.
  35. First Prize awarded to Dr. Anita Dalal for Oral Presentation during one of the technical session of XXXIV Annual Convention of IAVMI organized by LUVAS, Hisar, Haryana from May 27-28, 2022.
  36. Second and Third Prize awarded to Dr. Akhil Kumar Gupta for Oral Presentation during one of the technical session of XXXIV Annual Convention of IAVMI organized by LUVAS, Hisar, Haryana from May 27-28, 2022.
  37. Rajesh got the best paper award (oral presentation) in XXXVthNational Conference of IAVMI organized by the Department of Veterinary Microbiology, CSK,HPKV, Palampur (HP) from April 07-08, 2023.
  38. A software programme entitled “LUVAS FMD E-Loss Calculator” developed by the Scientists of the Dept. of Vety. Microbiology, LUVAS (Authors: Dr. Swati Dahiya, Dr. Neelam Rani and Dr. N. K. Kakker) has been awarded the copyright registration (SW-18808/2024) by the Intellectual Property, Govt. of India.

 

  1. Teaching Activity

Teaching of various Diploma (DVLT), UG (BVSc & AH) and PG (MVSc and PhD) courses 

Program

No. of courses offered

BVSc & AH

01

Diploma courses

04

PG (MVSc& PhD)

22

Include only those courses for which students registered.

  1. Research Activities:
  2. For Period 2023-24:

 

  1. Ongoing External Funded Research Projects: Six

Sr. No.

Title of the project

LUVAS Scheme No

Funding agency

Name of PI

Name of Co-PI

1.

Livestock Health and Disease Control Programme on FMD “Foot-and-Mouth Disease - Hisar Centre”

5539(PFMS)-C(b)-VMI-06-ICAR

ICAR, New Delhi

Dr. Swati Dahiya

Dr. Anshul Lather

2.

Production and Characterization of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus specific Nanobodies for Application as Diagnostic Reagents

5056-C(g)-VMI-06-OA(HSCSIT)

HSCSIT, Haryana

Dr. Swati Dahiya

Dr. Akhil K.  Gupta and

Dr. Anshul Lather

3.

Seromonitoring of FMD+HS combined vaccination in livestock population of Haryana

5083-C(g)-VMI-08-OA(HLDB)

HLDB

Dr. Rajesh

Dr. Swati Dahiya and Dr. Akhil K.  Gupta

4.

Comparative Studies on Post-vaccinal Humoral Immune Response in FMD+HS combined, FMD alone and HS alone Vaccinated Buffalo Calves at SCBP, Sector-II, Sirsa Road, Hisar

NA

GoI/ ICAR

Dr. Rajesh and

Dr. S. S. Juneja

Dr. Swati Dahiya, Dr. Akhil K.  Gupta, and Dr. S. Saravanan

5.

Production and applications of bovine interleukin-17 and anti IL-17 monoclonal antibodies

5531-C(b)-Micro-08(ES)-ICAR

ICAR, New Delhi

Dr. S. K. Kadian

Dr. Akhil K. Gupta and Dr. Anita Dalal

6.

Centre of Advanced Faculty Training in Veterinary Microbiology

5003-C(b)-VBH-14-ICAR

ICAR, New Delhi

Dr. Rajesh

NA

 

  1. State Plan & Non-Plan Research Schemes

 

Sr. No.

Title of the project

LUVAS Scheme No

1.

Studies on Infection and Immunity in relation to Foot and Mouth disease virus and Haemorrhagic Septicaemia

138-C(a)-VMI-1-Dev. Work

 

 

  1. Ongoing Institutional Projects:

 

Sr. No.

Title of the project

LUVAS Scheme No

Name of PI

Name of Co-PI

1.

Development of Real-time PCR assay for detection of Porcine Rotavirus

518/AIP/VMI/Dev. Work

Dr. Sanjeevna Kumari

1.    Dr. Rajesh, Dr. Parveen Kumar, Vety. Microbiology

2.    Dr. Pawan Kumar, Animal Biotechnology

2.

Expression and characterization of scFv clones selected against FMD serotype “O” from bovine scFv-phage display library

527/AIP/VMI/02/Dev. Work

Dr. Akhil Kumar Gupta

 

Dr. Swati Dahiya, Dr. Anshul Lather, Dr. Anita Dalal, Vety. Microbiology

 

  1. Research Projects completed during the year 2023-2024

Sr. No.

Title of the project

LUVAS Scheme No

Funding agency

Funding agency scheme No. (if any)

Name of PI

Name of Co-PI

1.

Production and applications of bovine interleukin-17 and anti IL-17 monoclonal antibodies

5531-C(b)-Micro-08(ES)- ICAR

ICAR

NA

Dr. S. K. Kadian

Dr. Akhil K. Gupta and Dr. Anita Dalal

2.

Comparative Studies on Post-vaccinal Humoral Immune Response in FMD+HS combined, FMD alone and HS alone Vaccinated Buffalo Calves at SCBP, Sector-II, Sirsa Road, Hisar

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GoI/ ICAR

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Dr. Rajesh and Dr. S. S. Juneja

Dr. Swati Dahiya, Dr. Akhil K. Gupta and Dr. S. Saravanan

 

ii For the period 2024-25:

 

  1. Ongoing External Funded Research Projects: Six

Sr. No.

Title of the project

LUVAS Scheme No

Funding agency

Name of PI

Name of Co-PI

1.

Livestock Health and Disease Control Programme on FMD “Foot-and-Mouth Disease - Hisar Centre”

5539(PFMS)-C(b)-VMI-06-ICAR

ICAR, New Delhi

Dr. Swati Dahiya

Dr. Anshul Lather

2.

Production and Characterization of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus specific Nanobodies for Application as Diagnostic Reagents

5056-C(g)-VMI-06-OA(HSCSIT)

HSCSIT, Haryana

Dr. Swati Dahiya

Dr. Akhil K.  Gupta and

Dr. Anshul Lather

3.

Seromonitoring of FMD+HS combined vaccination in livestock population of Haryana

5094-C(g)-VMI-09-OA(AHD) Haryana

HLDB

Dr. Rajesh

Dr. Swati Dahiya and Dr. Akhil K.  Gupta

4.

Comparative Studies on Post-vaccinal Humoral Immune Response in FMD+HS combined, FMD alone and HS alone Vaccinated Buffalo Calves at SCBP, Sector-II, Sirsa Road, Hisar

NA

GoI/ ICAR

Dr. Rajesh and

Dr. S. S. Juneja

Dr. Swati Dahiya, Dr. Akhil K.  Gupta, and Dr. S. Saravanan

5.

Production and applications of bovine interleukin-17 and anti IL-17 monoclonal antibodies

5531-C(b)-Micro-08(ES)-ICAR

ICAR, New Delhi

Dr. S. K. Kadian

Dr. Akhil K. Gupta and Dr. Anita Dalal

6.

Centre of Advanced Faculty Training in Veterinary Microbiology

5003-C(b)-VBH-14-ICAR

ICAR, New Delhi

Dr. Rajesh

NA

 

  1. State Plan & Non-Plan Research Schemes

 

Sr. No.

Title of the project

LUVAS Scheme No

1.

Studies on Infection and Immunity in relation to Foot and Mouth disease virus and HaemorrhagicSepticaemia

138-C(a)-VMI-1-Dev. Work

 

 

  1. Ongoing Institutional Projects:

 

Sr. No.

Title of the project

LUVAS Scheme No

Name of PI

Name of Co-PI

1.

Development of Real-time PCR assay for detection of Porcine Rotavirus

518/AIP/VMI/Dev. Work

Dr. Sanjeevna Kumari

3.    Dr. Rajesh, Dr. Parveen Kumar, Vety. Microbiology

4.    Dr. Pawan Kumar, Animal Biotechnology

2.

Expression and characterization of scFv clones selected against FMD serotype “O” from bovine scFv-phage display library

527/AIP/VMI/02/Dev. Work

Dr. Akhil Kumar Gupta

 

Dr. Swati Dahiya, Dr. Anshul Lather, Dr. Anita Dalal, Vety. Microbiology

 

  1. Extension Activities:

Details of extension activities /kisanmelas etc.

Date

Activity

Venue

No. of participants

Details

11-17 Sept. 2023

“FMD Awareness Week” was celebrated by the

Regional Research Centre on FMD, Dept. of Vety.

Microbiology, LUVAS

LUVAS, Hisar

More than 100

Organized various awareness creating activities in different districts of

Haryana including with paravets from different districts

of Haryana; Poster Making Competition on “Role of Vets as

Game Changer in Controlling FMD at Grass root level” for

B.V.Sc. & A.H. students of LUVAS, Hisar

20.10.2023

“FMD: causes, symptoms, and preventive measures” during the

Training on “Dairy Farming”

CCS HAU, Hisar

Around 30

Extension lecture organized by the SainaNehwal Institute of Agricultural Technology, Training & Education, DEE, CCS HAU, Hisar

15.09.2023, 02.12.2023, 16.12.2023, 20.12.2023,

21.02.2024, and 04.05.2024

Extension lectures organized by DEE, LUVAS under different “Vocational

Training on Dairy Farming”

LUVAS, Hisar

around 300 farmers, women entrepreneurs, and dairy owners

from different districts of Haryana

 

06 Extension lectures on “FMD: Prevention and Control”

 

17.03.2025 to 18.03.2025

Krishi Mela (Kharif)

CCS HAU, Hisar

-

Spread awareness about animal diseases to livestock farmers. 

 

  1. Training organized by department

Title

Date

Number of participants

Sponsoring organization/ society etc

National level “Capacity building/ training programme on probang/ oropharyngeal fluid (OPF) collection, dispatch, and follow-up of FMD NSP reactors”

25-27 July 2023

22 field veterinarians from six states/ UTs (Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana and Delhi) and faculty of LUVAS of India

ICAR-National Institute on FMD, Bhubaneswar

Modern diagnostic and control approaches to safeguard livestock health   

04-01-2024

to

24-01-2024

13 Scientist/equivalent from different SAU and ICAR institutes

ICAR-CAFT

Emerging Trends in Serological, Molecular and Cell Based Diagnostics in Veterinary Sciences

22-01-2025 to 11-02-2025

25 Scientist/equivalent from different SAU and ICAR institutes

ICAR-CAFT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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