Professional Documents
Culture Documents
BARC is responsible for planning, developing and upgrading the manpower of the
following 12 agricultural research institutes under the NARS such as:
Paper presented in Rice production training course for BRRI Scientists held at BRRI on 16 Feb-16
April, 2014.
BARC Manpower Development Mandate
The President Order No. 32 of 1973, Amendment made vide Act No. 28 of
1988, Act No.7 of 1996 and BARC Act, 2012 had provided clearly defined and
broad authority to BARC for the improvement of agricultural research manpower in
the country.
The authority covers preparation of master plan for manpower requirement in
agricultural research and select the required number of scientists and research workers
for training abroad and within the country and award fellowships and scholarships in
specialized fields for post graduate studies and for attending international seminars
and conferences with the approva of the Government.
HRD Policies
a) The main policy of the BARC Human Resources Development (HRD) is to
continuously improve the research manpower capability of the agricultural
research organizations in the country.
International organizations
The following international institutes like ICAR, PARC, CARP, NARC, MARDI,
ACIAR, PCARRD, APAARI, CORRA, CABI, AGRIS, CAPSA, SAC, SAARC,
CIRDAP, etc. are in association with BARC.
In conclusion, it is worthwhile to note that there exists both challenges and
opportunities in the rapidly changing world. We must develop our human resources to
make our work force well equipped, skilled, dynamic and competent. The scope and
opportunities of Human Resources Development (HRD) in the line of capacity
building of NARS scientists is always a top most priority of BARC to help cope with
the new challenges