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    EXTENT OF UTILIZATION OF ICT TOOLS AMONG FIELD VETERINARIANS OF ANDHRA PRADESH
    (SRI VENKATESWARA VETERINARY UNIVERSITY, TIRUPATI – 517 502,A.P, 2015-11) ROSHAN, BAIG; HARILAL, R(Major); SHARMA, G.R.K; SURESH, J
    ABSTRACT : The present study was undertaken with the main objective to assess the ICT utilization pattern and attitude of field veterinarians towards ICT utilization. Ex-postfacto research design was followed in the present investigation. Andhra Pradesh state was selected purposively for carrying out the study. Three districts were selected each from northern most, central and southern most districts of Andhra Pradesh. Forty respondents from each district were selected randomly and thus making a total of 120 respondents. The data were collected by personal interview method through structured interview schedule. Majority of the respondents were males belonging to young age group and had medium work experience. Majority of them belonged to rural background and had their school education in public schools. Majority of the respondents possessed medium level of social participation, innovativeness, management orientation, mass media exposure, extent of knowledge, familiarity and information management behaviour. A vast majority of the respondents had not acquired any trainings in ICTs.Majority of the respondents possessed medium level of ICT utilization and had favourable attitude towards ICT utilization. Correlation analysis carried out to reveal the relationship between independent variables and dependent variables indicated that, social participation, innovativeness, management orientation, mass media exposure, extent of knowledge, familiarity, and information management behaviour had a positively significant relationship with ICT utilization whereas background, schooling and trainings acquired had a positively non-significant relationship with ICT utilization. Gender had negatively significant relationship whereas age and work experience had a negatively non-significant relationship with ICT utilization. As far as attitude is concerned, social participation, extent of knowledge and familiarity had positively significant relationship whereas age, work experience, schooling, innovativeness, management orientation, mass media exposure and information management behaviour had a positively nonsignificant relationship with the attitude of respondents towards ICT utilization. Gender, background and trainings acquired were found to be in negatively nonsignificant relationship with attitude of the respondents. Regression analysis revealed that all the independent variables put together explained about 67.2 and 16.5 per cent variation in the ICT utilization and attitude of the respondents, respectively. ‘Lack of knowledge in using ICT tools’, ‘lack of training in ICTs’, ‘insufficient number of ICTs in V.Ds’, ‘interrupted power supply’, ‘internet connectivity problems’, ‘lack of maintenance of computers’, ‘A.H Department Website and its server are slow’, ‘lack of proper room facility for ICTs’, ‘communication problems within and among the development departments’, ‘lack of A.V.Aids in V.Ds’ and ‘lack of free time to learn new techniques personally’ were the major problems of the respondents. In order to overcome he above constraints, major suggestions given by the respondents for improving the ICT utilization were ‘trainings and workshops on ICT utilization and its application in information management should be conducted on a regular basis’, ‘provision of ICT tools like desktops, laptops, tablet PC, smart phones etc., to all VASs’, ‘supply of power backup devices like inverters’, ‘generators or UPS to all V.Ds’, ‘provision of high speed internet connectivity with Broad Band connection and Dongles to all V.Ds, regular monitoring and maintenance of ICT tools should be done by technical personnel ‘,‘construction of new buildings for V.Ds with computer room facility’, ‘improving social participation of the veterinarians by establishing formal WhatsApp and Facebook groups’ and ‘provision of A.V.Aids like, LCD projectors, Televisions, etc., to V.Ds’. Keeping all this in view certain strategies were developed to improve ICT utilization by the field veterinarians. Though the veterinarians have medium level of knowledge, favourable attitude and medium level of ICT utilization the above said problems and suggestions should be given importance and the strategies developed must be implemented to improve ICT utilization in order to achieve rapid development in the livestock sector.