Today I had the privilege of giving a keynote on Emerging Trends in Competence-Based Extension Education Science at the International Extension Education Conference on Education, Research and Services, at Banaras Hindu University (BHU), in Varanasi, India. BHU is the biggest comprehensive residential university in India, and one of the biggest in Asia, with around 40,000 students. Conference secretary is Dr Kalyan Ghadei, who recently spent a sabbatical in Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, USA), who is in the Department of Extension Education, headed by Professor A.K. Singh.
It was a great honour to receive the Agricultural Extension Education Leadership Award during the inaugural function of the conference for the ‘highly innovative accomplishment for Agricultural Research, Education and Services’, signed by the Vice Chancellor of BHU. Thank you very much Dr Ghadei, for being the initiator of the Award. I greatly appreciate it.
I found all rituals performed during the conference, garlanding the bust of the founder of the university, the lighting of the lamp, the kulgeet by students of performing arts, the floral welcome of guests, and chanting by the Organizing Secretary impressive.
