PREAMBLE

Rural development is the process of improving the quality of life and economic well being of people living relatively isolated and sparsely populated areas. The need for rural communities to approach development from a wider perspective has created more focus on a broad range of development goals rather than merely creating incentive for agriculture or resources based businesses. Education, entrepreneurship, physical infrastructure and social infrastructure all play an important role in developing rural regions.

With a Vision of “Development of human being through research” the SPSPM has established the “Centre for Research & Technology Developments”, Sinhgad Institute, Solapur (India) in N.B.Navale Sinhgad college of Engineering Solapur. This centre mainly focuses on top ten problems of next fifty years .To begin with Energy, Environment and Health Science are attempted. BARC is actively involved in the deployment of power and non-power applications on a large scale, both industrial and societal. The BARC Centre for Incubation of Technology

(BARCIT), spin off technologies, NISARGRUNA (solid biodegradable waste resource management) and Advance Knowledge & Rural Technology Implementation (AKRUTI) programs have been initiated for the benefit of Society. BARC has entered into several technologies transfer agreements with private parties in the areas of nuclear instrumentation, Industrial applications, Medical applications, Environmental applications and health care. As part of management of IPR issues, an IPR cell has also been established.

The Media Relations and Public Awareness section of BARC Mumbai has come forward to collaborate with CRTD for organizing this multi mega event in the interest of Nation particularity rural community shouldered the responsibility of spreading these technologies for rural development. The centre has ventured in a big way to undertake rural development program with innovative technologies .It consists of mainly four events

as follows: