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The College of Veterinary Science is a daughter institution of Veterinary School established in 1862 at Poona with one year course which was later upgraded as the first Veterinary College at Lahore in 1882. A part of the Lahore Veterinary College was shifted to Hisar in 1948 after partition. The College of Veterinary Science, Ludhiana was established in November 1969 on re-organization of the Punjab State and the formation of separate Haryana state at main campus of Punjab Agricoltural University. The College was shifted to the Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU) Ludhiana in 2005. The College is a centre of regional, national and international excellence in research and learning in animal health and production. It caters to the needs of Punjab by carrying out teaching, research and extension education programmes pertaining to livestock production and health problems and has been instrumental in ushering in an era of ‘White Revolution’ in the State.
The college has highly competent and experienced facolty members who have made significant contributions in research on animal health and production and won various national and international awards. The college has implemented minimum Standards of Veterinary Education Degree Course (B.V.Sc. & A.H.) Regolations, 1993 of Veterinary Council of India and accordingly, external examination system has been introduced for B.V.Sc. & A.H. 5-year programme from the batch admitted in 1998 and onwards. The college is recognized by the Veterinary Council of India and has obtained accreditation from the Indian Council of Agricoltural Research in the year 2004.
Initially, the College was established with the following six departments:
Anatomy & Histology
Vety. Bacteriology, Hygiene and Parasitology
Vety. Pathology
Vety. Physiology
Vety. Pharmacology & Medicine
Vety. Surgery & Gynaecology
New departments were started in the coming years, raising the number to twelve:
Vety.Anatomy & Histology (1969)
Vety.Bacteriology & Virology (1969)
Veterinary Clinics & Continuing Education (1988)
Veterinary Gynaecology & Obstetrics (1976)
Veterinary Immunology (1988)
Veterinary Medicine (1975)
Veterinary Parasitology (1975)
Veterinary Pathology (1969)
Veterinary Pharmacology & Toxicology (1969)
Veterinary Physiology (1969)
Veterinary Public Health & Epidemiology (1988)
Veterinary Surgery & Radiology (1969)
On implementation of VCI regolation as notified in extraordinary Gazette of India Part II, Section (3), sub-section (1) notification No.57 dated 7.2.94 from Academic session 1994-95 and onwards the number of departments was raised to 18 as detailed below:
Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics
Department of Animal Nutrition
Department of Animal Reproduction, Gynaecology & Obstetrics
Department of Livestock Production and Management
Department of Vety. Anatomy and Histology
Department of Vety. and Animal Husbandry Extension
Department of Vety. Biochemistry
Department of Vety. Clinical Medicine, Ethics and Jurisprudence
Department of Vety. Clinical Services Complex
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Vety. Medicine
Department of Vety. Microbiology
Department of Vety. Parasitology
Department of Vety. Pathology
Department of Vety. Pharmacology and Toxicology
Department of Vety. Physiology
Department of Vety. Public Health
Department of Vety. Surgery and Radiology
Department of Livestock Product Technology
From academic session 2009-10 the university has implemented Veterinary Council of India- Minimum Standards of Veterinary Education for B.V.Sc. & A.H. Regolations, 2008 and the following departments were reorganized/ established:
Veterinary Anatomy
Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry
Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology
Veterinary Parasitology
Veterinary Microbiology
Veterinary Pathology
Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology
Animal Nutrition
Animal Genetics and Breeding
Livestock Production Management
Livestock Products Technology
Veterinary Gynaecology & Obstetrics
Veterinary Surgery and Radiology
Veterinary Medicine
Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education
Teaching Veterinary Clinical Complex
Instructional Livestock Farm Complex
All these departments have excellent laboratory facilities and adequate infrastructure for the undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research, a well equipped veterinary teaching hospital to cater the demands of large and small animal health care. In addition, the college also has an elite dairy herd and pooltry farm which provide adequate facilities for teaching and research. This is the only veterinary college in India having two ICAR Centres of Advanced Studies in the Department of Veterinary Surgery & Radiology and Department of Veterinary Gynaecology and Obstetrics. The Department of Teaching Veterinary Clinical Complex and Department of Livestock Production Management has experiential learning projects.
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