Faculty of Agriculture Skuast, a short glimpse

Firstly, I attempted NEET and was not on the merit list to get me to any Medical college. So finally I appeared in the entrance test of Skuast and fortunately got their selection. I was on a merit list and then I went to the main campus SKUAST Srinagar for counselling. They asked me to show my 10th and 12th marks card and finally alloted me a seat in BSc Agriculture.

I choose this course because of the value and need to agricultural scientists in our area as most of the people are involved in somehow agricultural processes. In our college faculty members are very good and they have good teaching experience. They are highly Qualified at the researcher level and have teaching experience of 5 to 10 years. We have two term exams annually viz, the Mid-term and End-term exams. Meanwhile, the difficulty is moderate.

Many national and international companies provide internships to students of the college. Recently a company from Thailand offered internships to the students and provide them with good amounts of money. The main focus of the companies is to get them for research and scientific programs.

The campus is given to students for MSC courses in skaust. The biggest problem here is that no companies or else visit here and we totally rely upon the govt jobs. About 60% of students get it to Govt offerer jobs and others get it to other fields. I think I will go for PhD and will do research in the future.

The Fee for the said course Is Rs. 31,500. Recently we experienced a pretty good hike in annual tuition fees for which students are suffering a bit. We get only the scholarship from Minority affairs and no other scholarships from the college end.

We have I think the best infrastructure in our college. Hostel facilities are very good, have a WIFI, but lack of purified drinking water is a huge problem. Labs are well furnished, and classrooms are smart and well-developed. Medical facilities are poor. The library is huge and packed with many agricultural books, we have a vast playground and a serine scenery all around.

Hostel facilities are ample but I think more hostel fee is levied on us. Rooms are big but and 3 students are accommodated in one room. We don't have a generator system so whenever electricity is gone we have no option then. The mess of our hostel is I think best and we get anything from there. Hostels are allotted to each student at the time of the registration process.

Students here are kept busy with extracurricular activities and groups have been made and a group leader represents the whole group. Many seminars are held and we participate actively in these. Apart from these, we discuss the exam pattern and problems related to our studies.