DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
A. Seed Certification Officers
1.Under
take timely field inspection of all the foundation / certified class seed
productions allotted to him.
2.Under
take processing of seed lots
3.Sampling
the seed lot including resampling and sending to ADSCN.
4.Assigning
lot Number and assessing the required number of tags for each lot.
5Under
take re-inspection in time.
6.Under take validation work in time.
7.Attending
tagging, sealing etc., of seed lots.
8.
Prepare, maintain and furnish all the reports and registers expected to do.
9.Guiding
the seed producers on certified seed production.
10.Conducting
field level training, exhibitions, group contact, individual contact etc., to
promote or increase are under certification and to inflict quality consciousness
among producers.
11.
Feed back of important field level problems and observations experienced by him
to the higher officials.
12.Receiving,
scrutinising and forwarding applications for the approval of ginning
factories/processing plants.
13. Maintain pocket notebook.
14.
Maintain reminder diary.
15.
Fortnightly advance tour programme and monthly tour dairy shall be submitted to
the Assistant director of seed certification.
16.Any
other items of duties assigned to him by his higher officials.
B.
Seed Certification Officer (Technical), Office of the Deputy Director of
Seed Certification.
1.Attending
all tapals pertaining to Technical matters.
2.Assisting
the Deputy Director of Seed Certification in all technical matters and
preparation of technical reports.
3.Undertaking inspection of LFR fields on Deputy
Director of Seed Certification’s instructions.
4. Maintenance of all technical registers.
5.Taking
up surprise inspection of Foundation seed farms and processing units as per
Deputy Director of Seed Certification’s instructions.
6.Assisting
the Deputy Director of Seed Certification in arranging and conducting of
training programmes to seed producers and departmental staff.
7.Acting
as an information bureau by providing charts, hand books, photos, exhibits etc.
8.Maintaining
morphological character of all released varieties and list of notified
varieties, and breeders name.
9.Any
other items of duties entrusted by the higher officials.
C. Seed Certification Officer (Technical) at Assistant Director of Seed
Certification Office.
1.Attending
all tapals pertaining to technical matters.
2.Scrutinising
the sowing reports, Verifying the source, assigning S.C.No. fixing due
dates for inspection, for registration.
3.Assisting
the Assistant Director of Seed Certification, in all technical matters and
preparation of technical reports.
4.Maintenance of all technical registers.
5.Performing
surprise inspection of foundation class and certified class seed farms and
processing units as instructed by the Assistant Director of Seed Certification.
6.Verifying the processing report and tag requisition
for issue of tags.
7.Assessing
the tag and inspection book requirements.
8.Maintaining of morphological character of all
varieties, notified varieties list and list of breeders name and list of
producer.
9.Verifying
the inspection reports and LFR reports should be verified personally.
10.Responsible
for the display of publicity materials, programmes to seed growers.
11.Responsible
for publicity and propaganda, radio talks and fixing of training programmes to
seed growers.
12.Conducting
germination tests for time barred seed lots being used for further
multiplication.
13.Any
other items of duties entrusted by the higher officials from time to time.
D. Assistant
Director of Seed Certification
1.Preparation of Annual Plan of work.
2.Registering of application and accepting sowing
report.
3.Assigning
S.C. Numbers and communicating the same to the concerned.
4.Checking
the accuracy of field inspections done by the Seed Certification Officers an
supervision of re-inspections as ordered by the Deputy Director of Seed
Certification.
5.Issuing of Certificates.
6.
According delegated special permissions.
7.Assessing
the requirement of certification tags and other standard forms and arranging to
get the supply through the Deputy Director of Seed Certification.
8. Overall management, administration, supervision of
Certification activities in his jurisdiction.
9.Guiding
the producer on seed
10.Receiving
and communicating the seed testing result in time.
11.Preparation
and maintenance of Certification records and reports.
12.Conducting
staff meeting once in a month to assess and evaluate the work of Seed
Certification Officers.
13.Arranging
training programs to Seed Certification Officers especially to the new comers,
in certification work.
14.Conducting
supervisory inspections of certified seed production in general and foundation
parental lines of Hybrid Production in particular.
15.Inspecting Seed Processing Units.
16.Granting
permission for time barred parental seeds after conducting germination tests by
Seed Certification Officer (Technical).
17.Ensuring
timely field inspections, processing and tagging by suitable reallocation.
18.Feed
back of important field level problems and observations to higher officials.
19.
Any special works assigned by the higher officials.
20.
Carryout promotional activities for the increased certified seed production and
growth of the Seed Industry.
21. Grant permission for Certification in the name of the grower after getting willingness letter from both.
E. Deputy Director of Seed Certification
1.Overall
management and administration of certification activities within his
jurisdiction and see that the seed certification procedures prescribed are
strictly followed by the Seed Certification Officers and Assistant Directors of
Seed Certification.
2.Under
taking supervisory inspections of certified seed production in general and
foundation seed production in particular.
3.Issuing of confirmation of LFRs.
4.Issuing
of orders for re-inspection wherever applicable.
5.Ensuring
adequate feed back to the Director of Seed Certification.
6.Maintaining
liaison with officials of the related department, institution etc. involved in
certification programme.
7.Temporary
deployment of Seed Certification Officers according to the exigencies of work
with the knowledge of the Director of Seed Certification.
8.Arranging
and conducting seed Certification training to producer and seed certification
staff.
9.Preparing aids for crop identification.
10.Preparing
of technical bulletin to Seed Certification Officers.
11.Grant
of permission for Certification in the name of grower after getting willingness
letter from both.
12According
delegated special permissions..
13.Inspecting the processing units.
14.Conducting
staff meeting of all Assistant Director of Seed Certification once in 2 months
and conducting Regional review meeting of all SCOs and ADSCN once in 6 months.
15.Conducting Producers meeting.
16.Assessing
tag requirements once in 3 months and maintaining buffer stocks (stocking,
supplying etc.).
17.Attending monitoring team inspection.
18.
Any other work assigned by Director of Seed Certification.
19. Carryout promotional activities for the increased certified seed production and growth of the Seed Industry.