Keeping in view the need to build the critical capacity of the ICAR as a catalyzing agent for management of change in the Indian NARS, a National Workshop was organized on June 20 - 21, 2006, in the brainstorming mode. Inaugurating the workshop, Dr.Mruthyunjaya, National Director,

NAIP, New Delhi, said that agricultural research and extension system has to continuously respond to the emerging needs, viz. science for excellence, science for commerce, and science for society. He stressed the need to orient the human resources of the National Agricultural Innovation System (NAIS) on these issues, by meaningful and need-based capacity building programmes.
Scientists and teachers from Agricultural Universities (AUs), ICAR institutes, NGOs, and private organizations, who are involved in NAIP, numbering 35, participated in the workshop. Dr. R.K. Samanta, Joint Director, Dr. K. Vidyasagar Rao, Principal Scientist, and Dr. B.S. Sontakki, Senior Scientist, coordinated the workshop.