General Informations

  • Join Date: 01/09/1987
  • College: College of Fisheries
  • Department: Aquaculture
  • Office Email: kamaleshwar.kalita[at]aau.ac.in

Education Details

 
 
 
 
 
1983
BSc (Hons) in Zoology

Guwahati University

 
 
 
 
 
1986
MSc in Fishery Management

Mumbai University (CIFE)

 
 
 
 
 
1995
Ph.D. (Aquaculture)

Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology

Employment History

 
 
 
 
 
01-09-1987 - 01-04-1988
Lecturer

College of Fisheries, AAU

 
 
 
 
 
02-04-1988 - 30-07-1996
Assistant Professor

College of Fisheries, AAU

 
 
 
 
 
31-07-1996 - 31-12-2005
Associate Professor

Dept. of Aquaculture, College of Fisheries, AAU

 
 
 
 
 
27-07-2001 - 05-11-2013
Associate Dean

College of Fisheries, AAU

 
 
 
 
 
01-01-2006 - Till date
Professor

Dept. of Aquaculture, College of Fisheries, AAU

 
 
 
 
 
06-11-2013 - Till date
Professor

Dept. of Pathology, College of Veterinary Science, AAU

 
 
 
 
 
16-12-2017 - 28-02-2020
Security and Estate officer

College of Veterinary Science, AAU

 
 
 
 
 
01-01-2006 - Till date
Professor (Aquaculture)

College of Fisheries, Assam Agricultural University

Achievements
  • Bharatiya Shiksha Ratan Award (2007)
  • Rajiv Gandhi Achiever’s Award (2011)
  • Induction of Female Student for the first time in CFSc. (2004-05)
  • Addition of Fishery Science as an optional paper in APSC
  • Declaration of Raha as the permanent site for CFSc and subsequent laying of Foundation stone by VC,AAU (2009-10)
  • Introduction of PG program leading to MFSc in Aquaculture (2011-12)
  • Finalization of draft policy on Fish seed production
  • Establishment of the College farm complex
Membership
  • Assam Science Society
    Life Member
Projects
  • Assam Agricultural University sponsored project on "Revenue Earning Income Generation Through Fish Culture Operation at Goat Research Station, Burnihat, AAU", project cost Rs.5 Lakh implemented in 2023.
  • APART-World Bank sponsored project on "Fisheries Based Integrated Farming System Models for Livelihood and Income Generation of Farmers", project cost Rs.258 Lakh implemented in 2023.
  • Assam Agricultural University sponsored project on "Fish-Agri-Horti integrated farming system for income enhancement", project cost Rs.13 Lakh implemented in 2021.
  • DBT sponsored project on "Empowerment of rural women through capacity building in improved biotechnological innovation and application", implemented in 2018.
  • ASTEC sponsored project on "Socio-economic upliftment of fish farmers of Kamrup & Morigaon dist. through culture 7 propagation of Monopterus cuchia, a farmers’ participatory approach", implemented in 2016.
  • AAU sponsored project on "Breeding, larval rearing and culture of Giant River Catfish (Aorichthys seenghala)", implemented in 2009.
  • ICAR sponsored project on "Systematic investigation, possibilities of breeding, larval rearing and culture of indigenous freshwater prawn in Assam", project cost Rs.9.00 Lakh implemented in 2006.
  • ASTEC sponsored project on "Design and development of a low-cost domestic device for rapid detection of bovine subclinical mastitis’", project cost Rs.2.03 Lakh implemented in 2022.