The Commissionerate of Higher Education had motivated 55 science colleges to take up the Soil Health Card Project, a project of the Agriculture Department, under which 740,000 soil samples were tested in 2010. In 2011, there was a delay in obtaining approvals. The Commissionerate took some remedial steps and is about to obtain an extension of the project. The Commissioner is wondering what lessons could be drawn from the first year's experience, so that the management of the innovation could be improved.