Professor Mukherjee proposed the idea of making the Indian Agricultural Research Institute,(IARI) a regular University. In 1958, on the recommendation of 
the Indo-American Team on Agricultural Research and Education and with the generous aid of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Post-Graduate School was established 
at this Institute by the Governmental of India. The Institute now enjoys the status of a University under the University Grants Commission Act of 1956.