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.
The objectives of Unnat Bharat Abhiyan are broadly two-fold:
i) Building institutional capacity in Institutes of higher education in research & training relevant to the needs of rural India.
ii) 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
Under this programme, 132 villages have been identified for intervention by the following 16 institutes of higher education so far.
1. IIT Bombay
6. IIT Indore
11. IIT Mandi
16. MNIT Jaipur
2. IIT Bhubaneswar
7. IIT Jodhpur
12. IIT Patna
3. IIT Delhi
8. IIT Kanpur
13. IIT Roorkee
4. IIT Guwahati
9. IIT Kharagpur
14. IIT Ropar
5. IIT Hyderabad
10. IIT Madras
15. IISER Bhopal
The details of the Unnat Bharat Abhiyan programme are available at http://unnat.iitd.ac.in .
This information was given by the Union Human Resource Development Minister, Smt. Smriti Irani in a written reply to the Lok Sabha question.
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