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Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar

After independence, development of the rural sector was considered the primary concern of the Government of India. In 1949, with the appointment of the Radhakrishnan University Education Commission, imparting of agricultural education through the setting up of rural universities became the focal point. Later, in 1954 an Indo-American team led by Dr. K.R. Damle, the Vice-President of ICAR, was constituted that arrived at the idea of establishing a Rural University on the land-grant pattern of USA. As a consequence a contract between the Government of India, the Technical Cooperation Mission and some land-grant universities of USA, was signed to promote agricultural education in the country. The US universities included the universities of Tennessee, the Ohio State University, the Kansas State University, The University of Illinois, the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Missouri. The task of assisting Uttar Pradesh in establishing an agricultural university was assigned to the University of Illinois which signed a contract in 1959 to establish an agricultural University in the State. Dean, H.W. Hannah, of the University of Illinois prepared a blueprint for a Rural University to be set up at the Tarai State Farm in the district Nainital, UP. In the initial stage the University of Illinois also offered the services of its scientists and teachers. Thus, in 1960, the first agricultural university of India, UP Agricultural University, came into being by an Act of legislation, UP Act XI-V of 1958. The Act was later amended under UP Universities Re-enactment and Amendment Act 1972 and the University was rechristened as Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology keeping in view the contributions of Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant, the then Chief Minister of UP. The University was dedicated to the Nation by the first Prime Minister of India Pt Jawaharlal Nehru on 17 November 1960. The G.B. Pant University is a symbol of successful partnership between India and the United States. The establishment of this university brought about a revolution in agricultural education, research and extension. It paved the way for setting up of 31 other agricultural universities in the country.

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    Excitation function of 55, 56 Fe (n,p) and 59,60 Ni (n,p) for surrogate technique
    (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2019-08) Joshi, Himanshu; Pandey, Bhawna
    Fusion contains enormous amount of energy. ITER is the first thermonuclear reactor. In the critical components of the reactor, modified stainless steel is used, which have the composition of Iron, Nickel, Chromium, Molybdenum and others in order to enhance the properties of the steel. The fast neutrons of 14MeV emitted from the fusion reactor open various neutron induced channels. But inside the reactor various unstable radionuclides are produced through several inventories which have very short half life.. Cross section of any nuclear reaction gives the probability of that reaction. The study of 55,56Fe(n,p) and 59,60 Ni(n,p) cross sections of these radionuclides formed is useful for fusion reactor interest. Due to unavailability of the target nucleus, direct calculation of cross sections of these nuclei is difficult. So we use indirect Surrogate method to measure the cross section of these nuclides. For surrogate of any reaction to be possible, the reaction should proceed through compound nuclear reaction mechanism. The Excitation Function of any nuclear reaction shows the graph between cross section of the reaction and energy of incident projectile. For reaction to proceed largely through compound nuclear reaction mechanism, the contribution of compound nuclear reaction mechanism should be maximum in total cross section of the reactions. The excitation functions of the reaction 55,56 Fe(n,p) and 59,60 Ni(n,p) are plotted using TALYS 1.9 using the keyword “components” in the TALYS to verify the maximum contribution of compound reaction mechanism. Surrogate reactions for 55,56Fe(n,p) and 59,60 Ni(n,p) are formulated and the calculation of reaction rate is also done for the optimization of the input parameters of the surrogate reactions.