General Informations

  • Join Date: 16/10/2001
  • College: College of Fisheries
  • Department: Aquaculture
  • Office Email: pabitra.saharia[at]aau.ac.in

Education Details

 
 
 
 
 
1995
B. F. Sc

College of Fisheries, Assam Agricultural University

 
 
 
 
 
1997
M. F. Sc

ICAR, CIFE, Deemed University, Mumbai-61

 
 
 
 
 
2018
Ph. D.

College of Fisheries, Assam Agricultural University

 
 
 
 
 
1997
Other Qualifications

DBM, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai

Employment History

 
 
 
 
 
16-10-2001 - 09-11-2008
Programme Assistant

KVK, AAU, Sonitpur

 
 
 
 
 
10-11-2008 - 06-08-2011
Subject Matter Specialist (Fisheries)

KVK, AAU, Cachar

 
 
 
 
 
07-08-2011 - 13-02-2014
Subject Matter Specialist (Fisheries)

KVK, AAU, Jorhat

 
 
 
 
 
14-02-2014 - 10-08-2018
Subject Matter Specialist (Fisheries)

KVK, AAU, Udalguri

 
 
 
 
 
11-08-2018 - 29-06-2022
Assistant Professor (Stage-II)

College of Fisheries, Assam Agricultural University

 
 
 
 
 
30-06-2022 - Till date
Associate Professor

College of Fisheries, Assam Agricultural University

Achievements
  • 1. Developed three numbers of technology of fisheries during service at KVKs under AAU through OFT.
    2. Developed package of practice for polyculture of freshwater prawn with IMC
    3. First report of captive breeding of Cirrhinus reba at College of Fisheries (Lasim Bhangon)under the Gene bank project Conservation of indigenous fishes ( Component-II)
    4. Standardisation of breeding protocol of captive breeding of high valued fish spp Chitala chitala under the Gene bank project Conservation of indigenous fishes ( Component-II)
    5. Successfully demonstrated low cost Cage culture in the beels of Assam under the project " Cage culture in the beels of Assam"- CSS Blue Revolution
    6. Successfully completed Project "Promotion of Agriculture Centric Sustainable Livelihood Security for Tribal Farmers of Assam" and established two Carp eco hatcheries in the two aspirational districts of Assam
    7. As an alternate nodal officer for overall management of implementation of the training programme sponsored by the Fishery Mission Society for Chief Minister Samagra Gramya Unnayan Yojana ( FMS-CMSGUY)
    8. Handling six numbers of Project as PI and CO-PI
Membership
  • Community Mobilisation for Sustainable Development
    Life Member
Projects
  • ICAR sponsored project on "Agro-Eco Tourism", implemented in 2023.
  • NEC sponsored project on "Mass scale seed production of pure seeds of indegenous commercially important minor carp, Labeo calbasu for improving livelihood and nutritional security", project cost Rs.5.50 Lakh implemented in 2023.
  • AAU R&D sponsored project on "Aquaculture Diversification through murrel farming in cages for enhancing productivity of beel fisheries using local feed formulation", project cost Rs.24.5 Lakh implemented in 2022.
  • NABARD sponsored project on "Biofloc Technology for enhancing fish production", project cost Rs.15.50 Lakh implemented in 2021.
  • SOPD head, Govt of Assam sponsored project on "Scientific conservation programme for indigenous fishes sub Project-II", project cost Rs.936.0 Lakh implemented in 2018.
  • ICAR, DCFR sponsored project on "Socio-economic upliftment of Scheduled caste community of of North Lakhimpur, Biswanath chariali and Sonitpur district of Assam", project cost Rs.15.38 Lakh implemented in 2021.
  • DCFR sponsored project on "Socio-economic upliftment of Scheduled caste community of ofThekeraguri village, Nagaon and Morigaon district, Assam", project cost Rs.15.30 Lakh implemented in 2020.
  • NFDB sponsored project on "Aquatic Animal Health Laboratory", project cost Rs.97.0 Lakh implemented in 2020.
  • NFDB sponsored project on "Cage culture in the beels of Assam under CSS Blue Revolution", project cost Rs.24 Lakh implemented in 2019.