College of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, Selesih

The College of Veterinary Sciences & Animal Husbandry, one of the constituent colleges of the Central Agricultural University, was established through the promulgation of an ordinance (No. M-2 of 1995, dated 20 February) and became functional with the admission of first batch of students to BVSc & AH degree course in the 1997. It is near Aizawl in the state of Mizoram. Lalnuntluangi Hmar is the dean of the college.

The college took part in a CAU-organised North-East Agri Fair 2007–2008, and in a national seminar on "Integrated Farming System relevant to North-East region" in February 2008. The Department of Animal Reproduction, Gynaecology & Obstetrics of the College organised XXVII Annual Conference of ISSAR from 27 September 2011.

Location
The college is in Selesih, North Aizawl, about 12 km from Aizawl, the capital city of Mizoram, on the Aizawl-Sihphir-Silchar sub-highway. The campus is spread over 168.61 acre of land, mostly of hilly terrain at 965 meters the sea level. It has students from the North Eastern Hill States including Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura and Manipur.

Departments
As per the Veterinary Council of India's Minimum Standards for Veterinary Education (five-year BVSc & AH degree course) Regulations 2008 (implemented from the academic session 2009–10), the college has the following 17 teaching departments:


 * Veterinary Physiology & Biochemistry
 * Veterinary Anatomy & Histology
 * Animal Nutrition
 * Livestock Production & Management
 * Livestock Products Technology
 * Animal Breeding & Genetics
 * Veterinary Pathology
 * Veterinary Microbiology
 * Veterinary Parasitology
 * Veterinary Pharmacology & Toxicology
 * Veterinary Public Health & Epidemiology
 * Veterinary Medicine
 * Veterinary Surgery & Radiology Animal Reproduction, Gynecology & Obstetrics
 * Veterinary & Animal Husbandry Extension
 * Teaching Veterinary Clinical Service Complex (TVCC)
 * Instructional Livestock Farm Complex

Undergraduate programmes
The College of Veterinary Sciences & Animal Husbandry, Central Agricultural University, Selesih has offered the degree course of Bachelor of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry (BVSc & AH) since its inception. The college is fully adopting the Veterinary Council of India’s Minimum Standards for Veterinary Education (five-years BVSc & AH degree course) Regulations-2008 with effect from the academic session 2009–10. The BVSc & AH degree programme is spread over 10 semesters covering 177 credit hours including six-month internship programmes.

At present, the total intake capacity is 67 students. However, the intake capacity may be increased further with the implementation of 27% reservation for OBC students.

Postgraduate programmes
The Academic Council and the Board of Management of Central Agricultural University, Imphal approved the introduction of post-graduate (two-year MVSc degree) programmes under semester system of education in the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences & Animal Husbandry from the academic session 2006–07 in three selected disciplines: Veterinary Pharmacology & Toxicology, Veterinary Surgery & Radiology and Livestock Production & Management with an intake capacity of three students in each discipline.

The first batch of post-graduate MVSc students were admitted from second semester of academic session 2006–07. From the academic session 2007–08, MVSc programmes in three more disciplines; Veterinary Clinical Medicine, Animal Nutrition and Veterinary Microbiology were introduced.

Currently (1011–12), the college is offering MVSc degree programme in 11 disciplines and PhD programmes in three disciplines.

MVSc degree programmes:


 * Veterinary Pharmacology & Toxicology
 * Veterinary Surgery & Radiology
 * Livestock Production & Management
 * Veterinary Medicine
 * Animal Nutrition
 * Veterinary Microbiology
 * Veterinary Biochemistry
 * Veterinary Gynaecology & Obstetrics
 * Veterinary Pathology
 * Animal Genetics & Breeding
 * Livestock Products Technology
 * Livestock Product Technology

PhD programmes:


 * Veterinary Microbiology
 * Animal Nutrition
 * Veterinary Pharmacology & Toxicology