The meeting started with a hearty greeting to all the fellows. Dr. Md. Younus Ali, Senior Program Specialist (Livestock), SAC delivered his warm wishes and heartfelt thanks in his welcome speech to the respected Chairman, Supervisor and other fellows for joining the SAARC PhD Progress sharing meeting.

Dr. Harunur Rashid, Director SAARC Agriculture Centre delivered an inaugural speech in the inaugural session. In his remarks, he focused on the importance of the SAARC PhD Scholarship Program and requested the fellows to publish their research work in the impact factor journal.  After the inaugural session, the technical session was conducted under the chairmanship of Dr. Sowjanya Lakshmi, former SAARC PhD fellow, ICAR-IVRI, India. The total two fellows ( Mr Aruna Maheepala and Mr. Muhammad Rasheed) of the SAARC Agriculture PhD program presented the progress activities and fellows are pursuing their Phd research at PGIA under the Peradeniya University, Sri Lanka.

A farewell ceremony of Mr Aruna Maheepala was held virtually. In addition, a welcome ceremony  was also held for Bangladeshi fellows who joined the SAARC PhD Scholarship program recently. Finaly, Dr. Rashid Director SAC concluded the meeting through vote of thanks.