About Us

The Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer’s Welfare, Govt. of India has established four EEIs for four regions of the country: EEI (Northern Region) at Nilokheri, Haryana (1959), EEI (Southern Region) at Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (1962), EEI (Western Region) at Anand, Gujarat (1962), and EEI (NE Region) at Jorhat, Assam (1987). The Extension Education Institute, Nilokheri was established in 1959 as the first training institute of its kind in the country during the second five-year plan period. The institute’s main mandate is to provide in-service training to middle-level extension functionaries. It is one of the pioneer and premier extension training institutes of the country which carries the responsibility of organizing training courses for the various departments including Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry & Dairy, Forestry, Fisheries, Sericulture, Watershed Management, Rural Development, and Master Trainers of SAMETIs of the northern states of India viz. Haryana, Punjab, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh.  In the year 1991, its administrative control was handed over to CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar and since then it functions under the administrative control of CCS HAU, Hisar on the basis of a Memorandum of Understanding between DAC, MoA, GOI, New Delhi, and EEI, Nilokheri.