Dr. Kadirvel Govindasamy

Director

ICAR-ATARI, Guwahati office foundation stone was laid out by Hon’ble Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Shri Radha Mohan Singh at ICAR-CPCRI, Regional Centre, Kahikuchi on 14th February, 2016 and started functioning fully after joining of the Director on 9th May, 2017. ICAR-ATARI having jurisdiction of 3 states viz. Assam, Arunachal Pradesh & Sikkim mainly engaged for coordination, monitoring and reviewing of mandatory activities of KVKs such as technology assessment, refinement and demonstration. At present a total of 47 KVKs are under jurisdiction of ATARI, Guwahati out of which 26 in Assam, 17 in Arunachal Pradesh and 4 in Sikkim. Three new KVKs have been established viz.DimaHasao, Dibang Valley and KurungKumey out of which two KVK (Dibang Valley and KurungKumey) yet to be fully functional.