The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and the World Bank have jointly issued the Delhi Declaration on Modernisation of Agricultural Education System to strengthen India's agriculture education sector. Multidisciplinary technology-facilitated education should be promoted and the policies on Science, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture and Mathematics (STEAM) in agricultural higher education need to be transformed. The Conference was held as part of the National Agricultural Higher Education Project’s (NAHEP) Resilient Agricultural Education System (RAES) development initiative. NAHEP is a five-year project initiated in 2018 with equal contribution of $82.5 million each from the World Bank and the central government. The purpose of NAHEP is to transform agricultural higher education. The World Bank loan is to be repaid over 19 years after a grace period of five years.
