Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) is starting a new master's course for wildlife practitioners. In this course, students will learn Artificial Intelligence...read more
Anup Gupta, Jagran, Bareilly. Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) will soon prepare wildlife experts for the entire country. For this, the institute is going to start the study of Master of Veterinary Science (MVSc) in Wildlife Health and Management. In the coming time, the wildlife experts from here will provide services across the country. After the commencement of this course, IVRI will be included among the select institutions in the country where this study is conducted.
Presently this course is being taught in Tamil Nadu, Jabalpur and Kerala Veterinary Science University. There are 56 zoos, 106 national parks and 573 wildlife sanctuaries across the country. IVRI scientists say that there is a shortage of fully competent wildlife experts to take proper care of the health and treatment of wildlife and their diseases. The main reason for this is that there are only three institutes in the country offering MVSc in Wildlife Health and Management.
This includes Tamil Nadu Veterinary University, Nanaji Deshmukh Veterinary Science University (Jabalpur) and Kerala Veterinary University. Apart from this, in the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, instead of AVSc, only MSc (Master of Science in Wildlife) is taught. In such a situation, fully trained and qualified wildlife experts are not being prepared for wildlife. In view of this, IVRI is completing the formalities of starting the course of MVSc Wildlife Health and Management.
This course is likely to start by May-June this year, for this the joint team of IVRI Director Dr. Trivendidutt, Registrar Dr. Rahul Raj and Joint Director (Academic) Dr. SK Mendiratta has prepared its proposal. Due to which the matter has also been sent to the Board of Management of IVRI. After this, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has to give its final approval. Scientists advocating for starting this course say that almost the entire process has been completed.
Robotic training is also being included with the help of AI.
Artificial Intelligence i.e. AI can be used to save and treat wildlife. An attempt has been made to make it quite modern and advanced by including it in this course. Scientists said that by doing this MVSC course, wildlife experts will be able to deal with the health and treatment of wildlife with efficiency and sensitivity through AI and robotic education.
Wildlife experts from selected institutions of the country have also given approval.
To check whether the outline of the MVSc in Wildlife Health and Management course prepared by IVRI is meeting the modern standards or not, the institute had sent its copy to wildlife experts of selected institutions of the country.
Dr. Abhijeet Pavade, in-charge and chief scientist of the Wildlife Center at IVRI, said that a copy of the proposal was sent to Padmashree Dr. Kushal Sharma of the Veterinary College of Assam Agricultural University, retired wildlife expert Dr. AB Srivastava from Nanaji Deshmukh Veterinary Science University, Jabalpur, Dr. Sreekumar of Tamil Nadu Veterinary University, Dr. Parag Nigam of Indian Wildlife Institute, Dehradun and Dr. Chandy George of Kerala Veterinary University.
After their in-depth study, IVRI's MVSc in Wildlife Health and Management course has been approved considering it suitable for modern studies on wildlife. After this, the way has been cleared to start this course.
Currently, studies were being done through one year online diploma only.
IVRI, the country's biggest research institute, was till now offering only one year National Diploma in Wildlife. In this, studies related to wildlife were limited, hence there was no special interest among the students in it. This can be gauged from the fact that only two admissions were made in offline studies.
However, in the year 2025, the institute started online studies to generate interest in it among the students, so now 25 students are studying in this diploma course. However, since 2015, various other subjects are also being taught in Bachelor of Veterinary Science.
There are about 400 students in 22 subjects of the master's program.
IVRI is currently offering 22 different courses in the MVSc Master programme. About 400 students are studying in it. Apart from this, about 75 researchers are involved in 19 subjects in PHC. There are 22 different departments in the institute. In which about 900 students are studying. The institute is preparing to start many more important courses. With the recognition of A Double Plus from NAAC, it will now be much easier for the institute to start new offline and online courses.
There are very few wildlife experts across the country. In view of this, the formalities of starting MVSc in Wildlife Health and Management course are being completed, so that wildlife experts can be prepared for zoos, protected forest areas etc.
- Dr. Trivenidutt, Director, IVRI
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