About MAFSU

The Maharashtra Animal & Fishery Sciences University (MAFSU)
was formally notified on November 17th, 2000 and was established under the
State Act No. 1998 (MAH.XVII of 1998) on December 03rd, 2000 with its
headquarter at Nagpur. The University has been carved out of the four
Agriculture Universities in the state by transferring five Veterinary Colleges,
one Post Graduate Institute of Veterinary & Animal Sciences and one Dairy
Technology College. Although the University is in its infancy, the constituent
colleges were quite old.
Thus beginning with the five Veterinary Colleges, one Post Graduate Institute
of Veterinary & Animal Sciences and one Dairy Technology College at
different geographical locations of the state in December 2000, University made
a commendable progress in developing Fishery Faculty and strengthening Dairy
Technology Faculty by establishing two new Fishery College at Nagpur &
Udgir and one Dairy Technology College at Udgir. Besides ten colleges in three
faculties, Director of Instructions, Director of Research and Director of
Extension Education, the University has a well developed Students Welfare
Section, University Library, Bio-informatics Center and training and placement
centers. With the new concepts of research and extension responsibility, the
University plans to initiate and coordinate research projects with the other
Universities, institutions of ICAR.
Each college has some highly specialized and well developed departments which
include India’s first Veterinary Nuclear Medicine Center (VNMC) at Mumbai,
Embryo Transfer Technology Laboratory and Mineral & Hormonal Assay
Laboratory at Akola, Swine Fever Surveillance Center at Nagpur etc. The
University draws its major financial support from the State Government’s Annual
Grants for meeting its expenses on salaries and recurring and non-recurring
expenses relating to the plan and non-plan subjects. In addition, University
also receives a major financial support from the Indian Council of Agricultural
Research as development grants being a State Agriculture University (SAU). The
research projects are supported by DBT, DSIR, MoFPI, DST, NABARD,
Pharmaceuticals companies.
