Mayur Mahajan
The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has launched a programme called Unnat Bharat Abhiyan with an aim to connect institutions of higher education, including Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and Indian Institutes of Science Education & Research (IISERs) etc. with local communities to address the development challenges through appropriate technologies. Under this programme, 132 villages have been identified for intervention by the following 16 institutes of higher education. Unnat Bharat Abhiyan is inspired by the vision of transformational change in rural development processes by leveraging knowledge institutions to help build the architecture of an Inclusive India. The Mission of Unnat Bharat Abhiyan is to enable higher education institutions to work with the people of rural India in identifying development challenges and evolving appropriate solutions for accelerating sustainable growth. It also aims to create a virtuous cycle between society and an inclusive academic system by providing knowledge and practices for emerging professions and to upgrade the capabilities of both the public and the private sectors in responding to the development needs of rural India
The following 16 Institutes of Higher Education are:
- IIT Bombay
- IIT Indore
- IIT Mandi
- MNIT Jaipur
- IIT Bhubaneswar
- IIT Jodhpur
- IIT Patna
- IIT Delhi
- IIT Kanpur
- IIT Roorkee
- IIT Guwahati
- IIT Kharagpur
- IIT Ropar
- IIT Hyderabad
- IIT Madras
- IISER Bhopal
The Objectives of Unnat Bharat Abhiyan:
- Building institutional capacity in Institutes of higher education in research & training relevant to the needs of rural India
- Provide rural India with professional resource support from institutes of higher education, especially those which have acquired academic excellence in the field of Science, Engineering & Technology and Management
Contact Details:
- Prof V K. Vijay Head, Centre for Rural Development and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi-110016
References & details:
- For more details Unnat Bharat Abhiyan visit: http://unnat.iitd.ac.in/index.php/en/
