Port Blair, September 1: Dr Bandla Gangaiah has taken over as Director (Acting), ICAR- CIARI, Port Blair w.e .f. 1st September 2019, consequent to completion of tenure of Dr A. Kundu (Acting) on 31st August 2019.
He has experience of more than four years in R&D and extension programme of the institute pertaining to the island ecosystem. He has got the vision to make the agricultural production of Andaman and Nicobar Islands sustainable in association with Andaman and Nicobar Administration through technological backstopping in agri-Horti-fish-livestock sectors of the Institute for enhancing the income of the island farmers and other stakeholders with doable technologies in agriculture and allied fields.