The DDG (Hort.) is the controlling officer of the Project and The Project
Coordinator is the CEO of the project. The role of the PC is to coordinate
with the Director and Heads of Divisions of CPRI as well as Director
Research and Scientists Incharge of AICRP centers of SAUS to develop sound
technical programme addressing the major issues in potato research and
development. He develops a draft technical programme based on the above
and organizes the Group Meeting to discuss and finalize the technical
Programme. He further oversees the execution of the Technical programme.
He also compiles the results of trials conducted and prepares the draft
recommendations for deliberations and finalization at the Group meeting.
PIs: The Heads of Divisions of CPRI are normally the PIs of the
projects. However, any scientist of CPRI or AICRP centre can also be
nominated as PI of a particular project. The role of the PIs is to
finalize the Technical Programme and also compile the results over the
years/locations and bring out recommendations.
Monitoring Team: For effective monitoring of the trials at
different AICRP centers, a monitoring team is normally constituted which
visits the centers and gives its report to the PC on the experiments
conducted, the stand of the crop, quality of the experiment, timelines of
operations etc. However constitution of the monitoring team is not
mendatory.