Unnat Bharat Abhiyan

Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA) was launched by the Ministry of Education (Shiksha Mantralaya) on 11th November 2014 with an aim to bring transformational change in rural development processes by leveling knowledge institutions to help build the architecture of an inclusive India.The UBA is conceptualized as a movement to connect institutes of higher education with local communities to address the development challenges of rural India through appropriate technological inventions. As per the directives of the MHRD, higher educational institutions, which are funded by the Central/State Government and all institutions which are under approval by the regulatory bodies need to adopt a cluster of backward villages in the vicinity for the purpose of UBA and IIT Delhi has been appointed as the National coordinator. This year NIT Meghalaya has been selected as the Regional Coordinating Institute and the institute authority has appointed Dr. Atanu Singha Roy (Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry) as the coordinator for the same. The UBA coordinator along with the Director of the institute, Dean PD and Secretary Maharaj (RK Mission Sohra) has already visited the areas of Shella, Sohra and have been selected five villages to be adopted for these activities: Kalatek Old, Kalatek New Basti, Kutmadan, Mawsmai and Saitsophen. The main aim of the ‘Unnat Bharat Abhiyan’ is to give a tech-boost and skill development at the grass root level to the villages for their overall development. Action plan in collaboration with the RK Mission Sohra has already been started. Teams including Research Scholars have been set up to visit the villages and identify their problems and to provide possible solutions for the long term. Further, the institute will aim to find financially-viable schemes and prepare a roadmap for holistic rural development in a collaborative mode.