The consultancy assignment is of five years duration with the project outcome of the environmental and ecological quality indicators for cage culture and fish disease surveillance

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore, Kolkata and the Directorate of Fisheries, Government of Odisha for the Consultancy Assignment on “Environmental and Aquatic Animal Health Monitoring in Hirakud Reservoir under Cage Culture Programme” in Barrackpore.

Dr Basanta Kumar Das, Director, ICAR-CIFRI, Barrackpore and SR Pradhan, Director, Directorate of Fisheries, Government of Odisha signed the MoU on the behalf of their respective organisations.

Devananda Bhanja, Additional Director; Shri Sashi Acharya, Joint Director and Shri Prasanta Panigrahi, ADF, Inland Fisheries, Directorate of Fisheries, Government of Odisha and along with the Staff Members of ICAR-CIFRI, Barrackpore were also present during the occasion.

The consultancy assignment is of five years duration with the project outcome of the environmental and ecological quality indicators for cage culture and fish disease surveillance and monitoring in the Hirakud Reservoir.