Agriculture plays a vital role being sources of livelihood, contribution to national revenue, supply of food as well as fodder, significance to the international trade, marketable surplus, source of raw material, significance in transport, foreign exchange resources, great employment opportunities, economic development, source of food & nutritional security etc. Despite tremendous progress made by India in the field of industry and services, agriculture continues to play a pivotal role in India’s 2 trillion economies. Nearly 58 per cent of Indian house hold depends on farming. Agriculture, remain a key contributor to India’s economic development not only by its share of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) but also as a drive for industrial growth by producing critical raw material and by funneling, saving and consumption behavior on which the sales of many industrial products depend. Agriculture as a concept has grown as well. A decade or two back, it was associated solely with the production of basic crops (cereals, millets, pulses, oil crops, fiber crops, sugarcane, cottons and potato). Modern agriculture includes forestry, bee keeping, mushroom production, poultry, dairy, fishery and Hi-tech horticulture production including Plantation and Medicinal & Aromatic Plants. In India, Horticulture forms an integral and important component of livelihood, nutritional security and economy and has become one of the major drivers of growth as it is more remunerative than the traditional field crops. Horticultural crops constitute a significant segment of the total agricultural production and contribute about 30 per cent of the Agricultural GDP. During 2019-20, the horticulture sector is poised to a record estimated production of 320 million tonnes exceeding the food grain production of around 295 million tonnes. Due to limited natural resources viz., shrinking of cultivable land area, depletion in water level, poor soil health and heavy demography pressure, a vast majority of poor, uneducated and underutilized human resources, our cities are becoming increasingly un-sustainable. Peri-urban cultivation of Horticultural crops is one of the solutions to convert urban poor to being employed, while at the same time improving the built environment. Keeping in view, the importance of agriculture in general and horticulture in particular university opened new school known as School of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SAST), which came into being in academic session 2017-18. 2. Number of Departments: 1. Department of Horticulture {previously known as Department of Applied Plant Science (Horticulture)} presently existing one. 2. Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding (Proposed one)