KVIC plans back-up units across country to promote rural industrialisation
A number of scientific institutions are to help the Khadi & Village Industries Commission (KVIC) in rural industrialisation as well as value addition to its products.
The KVIC today signed an MoU with Hyderabad-based Nisiet(National Institute of Small Industry Extension Training), a pioneering organisation of the ministry of small-scale industries and agro and rural industries of Government of India actively involved in enterprise promotion, for this purpose. The MoU was signed during a national convention on Rural Industrialisation at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi.
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The principal director of the Nisiet, SV Prabhath, said that as part of the agreement, the Khadi & Village Industries Commission would soon set up Technical Back-up Units (TBC/Interface) covering the entire country.
Nisiet is one of the several institutions in the country where TBU is being set up by KVIC. The TBUs are being set up in order to provide thrust to entrepreneurship programmes backed by strong science and technology research inputs for production activities utilizing local resources and local skills of the people.
The objective of setting up this TBU/Interface is to trigger off and strengthen rural industrialisation through timely, continuous and appropriate measures like providing Science & Technology inputs, R&D Support; Innovative ideas, technical back-up, technologies for value addition, strengthen academic - industry linkages and offering quality control assurance including development of quality standards.
Under this agreement NISIET is expected to provide support in several areas which include creating awareness for programs, identifying thrust areas, providing innovative ideas, establishing linkages with different research organisations and universities, to provide technical back-up to the various institutions, artisans producing Village Industry Goods and all other similar related areas.
Commenting on the breakthrough alliance, Prabhath said,