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Punjab Agricultural University started the College of Home Science in July, 1966 with the help of two USAID experts in Home Science - Dr Edna R Kaufman and Dr Maria S Friesen. Mrs Sushila Dantyagi, a renowned Home Scientist, was the founder Dean of the College. Through its integrated programme of teaching, research and extension, the College grew rapidly, playing a significant role in improving the socio-economic conditions of rural as well as urban families, thereby, giving them opportunity to have a better quality of life. The College of Home Science is a pioneer institution among the Home Science Colleges of State Agricultural Universities that started Post Graduate programmes in all the disciplines of Home Science in the seventies.

To broaden its horizon as a wider institute of learning and excellence for community as whole, it has been renamed as College of Community Science with effect from June, 2019. Community Science is an inter-disciplinary field of knowledge which integrates concepts from Physical, Biological, Agricultural, Social and Environmental Sciences along with its own components of Apparel and Textile Science, Food and Nutrition, Resource Management and Consumer Science, Human Development & Family Studies and Extension Education & Communication Management. It prepares the individuals to obtain recent scientific information for dealing with real life situations to cope up with everyday problems effectively by providing broad-based, culturally relevant knowledge in different areas of Community Science.

The College has the privilege of having one of the best-equipped laboratories amongst the Community Science Colleges of the country. To facilitate the teaching of highly vocational professional electives, state-of-art infrastructure is provided in Baking, Institutional Management, Textile Testing, Multimedia, Computer Laboratories. The College also has four Experiential Learning Units, one each on Apparel Manufacturing, Bakery and Confectionery, Artistic Creations and Child Care Providers Training. Latest equipment and facilities in the laboratories of the departments impart quality education both at UG and PG level.

Academic programmes and job avenues

The College imparts undergraduate and postgraduate (M.Sc. and Ph.D.) education in various disciplines of Community Science. It also offers Bachelors' programmes in Nutrition and Dietetics and B Sc (Hons) Fashion Designing. One year Certificate Courses offered by the college includes ‘Early Childhood Care and Education’ and ‘Interior Design and Decoration’. The Community Science graduates can go in for B.Ed., MBA or M.Sc. in the field of their interest. They can start their own entrepreneurial ventures in bakery, confectionery, art and craft, dress designing, nursery school, crèche etc. The students can get job placements as dieticians with Hospitals or Health Clinics, as counsellors with Schools, Colleges, Hospitals or Senior Citizen Homes and as designers with Hosiery and Textile Industries. They can also be absorbed as journalists with Newspapers, Radio and Doordarshan as well as go in for any teaching, research or extension jobs.

College of Community Science / Dean

Name : Dr. Kiran Bains

Address : Dean College of Community Science

Office : 0161- 2401960-79, Ext-209, 0161-2403179

E-Mail : deanhsc@pau.edu

Brief Introduction

Dr Kiran Bains joined PAU as Assistant Scientist, Food and Nutrition on 1.12.1995. She was Head of the Department of Food and Nutrition from 1.2.2019 to 31.1.2023 and joined as Dean, College of Community Science, PAU on 6.11.2023. She has guided 25 M.Sc. and 10 Ph.D. students and handled 12 adhoc research projects. She has 243 publications out of which 104 are Research Papers in peer reviewed journals and 28 research papers have been published in high impact rating journals (7.35-17.21). She was a member of Broad Subject Matter Area Committee (BSMAC) for Community Science of ICAR to restructure postgraduate curriculum in Community Science from 2018-20. She worked at Centre of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing (CIAB), Mohali as Sabbatical Faculty for one year (2015-16). She is Principal Investigator of Nestle India Limited funded ongoing scheme under first MoU of public-private partnership between PAU and Nestle India Limited in March 2009. This partnership completed 14 years, imparting nutrition education to 19,550 rural school girls from 77 villages of Moga, Ludhiana, Faridkot and Ferozepur districts with a total grant of Rs.1,03,83,000/- till date. As Principal Investigator, she achieved a competitive Research Project entitled, “A study of factors influencing zinc status of women (15-45 years) and children (6-59 months) from Ludhiana district of Punjab, India” in 2011 with a research grant of Rs.53,04,308/- from HarvestPlus, IFPRI, Washington DC. The study provided a baseline data for assessing the efficacy of biofortified high zinc varieties of HarvestPlus. She has been involved in testing of 7 crop varieties/ technologies in association with Agriculture and Horticulture scientists. She has been invited to present paper at 22nd International Congress of Nutrition (ICN) organized by the International Union of Nutritional Science at Tokyo, Japan in 2022. She was also invited to present work on protein quality of Indian diets at Seminar on ‘Protein for Human Health’ funded by FAO and Health Canada held at Auckland, New Zealand from March 27 to 30, 2011. She was nominated by Government of India as a member of the team to attend Indo-New Zealand Workshop on ‘Food and Agriculture’ at Lincoln University, Christchurch and Massey University, New Zealand from June 20-24, 2012. She represented India at Nestle Switzerland, SA sponsored International Workshop to exchange best practices in nutrition awareness programmes participated by representatives of 35 countries at London, UK on May 26-27, 2010. She achieved Research Fellowships at World Vegetable Centre, Taiwan in 2003 and Massey University, New Zealand in 2007. Her research on ‘Traditional and Culturally Competent Emergency Food Aid’ has been selected as one of the 31 innovative solutions that have succeeded in addressing complex problems around food security and nutrition through MEGP Initiative jointly led by National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) and United Nations World Food Program (UNWFP). She has received 10 best paper awards at national conferences. She has been nominated as a Member Executive Committee of Nutrition Society of India, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad (2022-24) and Convener, Nutrition Society of India (Ludhiana Chapter) from 2020 to 2023. She has contributed in the development of ‘Regional adaptation and update of food item based dietary guidelines’ of National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) with emphasis on cardio-vascular diseases.

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College of Community Science / Facilities & Services

1.	Bakery and Confectionery ELU		2.	Equipment Laboratory
3.	PG Research Laboratory		4.	Laboratory Nursery School
5.	Laboratory Day Care Centre		6.	Fine Arts Laboratory
7.	Interior Space Designing Laboratory		8.	Computer Aided Designing Laboratory
9.	Apparel Manufacturing ELU		10.	Seminar Room
11.	Extension Training Laboratory

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