{"id":132002,"date":"2020-07-20T03:12:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T21:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=132002"},"modified":"2020-07-20T03:12:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T21:42:58","slug":"webinar-on-rural-development-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/07\/20\/webinar-on-rural-development-held\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar on rural development held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NIRJULI, Jul 19:<\/strong> Participants from various parts of the country attended a national webinar on &#8216;Technological intervention for rural development&#8217;, organized by the NERIST&#8217;s Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA) regional coordinating institute (RCI) here on 18 July.<br \/>\nThe programme was hosted by New Delhi-based Indian Institute of Science &amp; Technology&#8217;s UBA national coordinating institute (NCI).<br \/>\nDuring the webinar, AICTE Chairman, Prof Anil D Sahasradudhe stressed &#8220;the importance of self-reliance for village in the development of nation.&#8221; He urged the institutes of higher learning to take active part in the UBA mission, the flagship programme of the union HRD ministry, &#8220;to enrich the rural India.&#8221;<br \/>\nIIT Delhi&#8217;s UBA national coordinator, Prof VK Vijay highlighted the activities under the UBA, and urged the faculty members and students of institutes to &#8220;be reoriented and connected to the rural realities, so that their learning and research become more relevant to the society.&#8221;<br \/>\nNERIST Director, Prof HS Yadav spoke on the importance of UBA and informed that the faculty members and students of the NERIST &#8220;are taking active part in this mission.&#8221;<br \/>\nNERIST UBA regional coordinator, Prof Pradip Lingfa said the webinar would &#8220;create a platform to provide a meaningful thrust and a new dimension for the development of need-based technology for rural development.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe webinar&#8217;s organizing secretary, Dr T Patel emphasized on the importance of technological intervention for rural development and sustainable livelihood for the rural people.<br \/>\nIIT Delhi&#8217;s Prof SN Naik and IIT Guwahati&#8217;s Dr S Karmakar, Prof D Chakrabarti and Dr P Kalita delivered lectures during the technical sessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIRJULI, Jul 19: Participants from various parts of the country attended a national webinar on &#8216;Technological intervention for rural development&#8217;, organized by the NERIST&#8217;s Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA) regional coordinating institute (RCI) here on 18 July. The programme was hosted by New Delhi-based Indian Institute of Science &amp; Technology&#8217;s UBA national coordinating institute (NCI). During [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-132002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}