The 1,000-acre Hazaribagh off-campus of IARI will undertake integrated multi-disciplinary research in the school mode (schools of crop sciences, natural resource management and animal sciences). "It was announced in 2014, its foundation stone was laid by the Prime Minister in 2015 and its funds were approved somewhere late last year. Initially, the IARI off-campus will have one administrative and faculty building each and the three research schools till MSc and PhD levels. For the future, the IARI off-campus will go the solar way to meet a part of its energy needs. They are being taught at the IARI mother centre in Delhi.

Source: The Telegraph January 18, 2017 22:04 UTC