• Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and World Bank have issued ‘Delhi Declaration’ on Modernisation of Agricultural Education System (AES) at International Conference on Blended Learning Ecosystem.
• Conference was held as part of NAHEP’s Resilient Agricultural Education System (RAES) development initiative.

National Agricultural Higher Education Project (NAHEP).

• It aims to attract talent and strengthen higher agricultural education in the country.
• NAHEP is a five-year project initiated in 2018 by World Bank and Central Government to strengthen National AES.
• Funded by the World Bank and the Indian Government on a 50:50 basis.
• The objective of the NAHEP for India is to support participating agricultural universities and ICAR in providing more relevant and higher quality education to Agricultural University students.
• In addition, a four year degree in Agriculture, Horticulture, Fisheries and Forestry has been declared a professional degree.
• ICAR is an autonomous organisation for coordinating, guiding and managing research and education in agriculture including horticulture, fisheries and animal sciences in India. It is headquartered in New Delhi.