Amity School of Engineering and Technology organised guest lecture on technical interventions in rural areas through Unnat Bharat Abhiyan for livelihood for Atmanirbhar Bharat on 1st June 2021.
Prof. Virendra Kumar Vijay, IREDA Chair Professor, Centre for Rural Development and Technology , IIT Delhi, delivered his talk on the need for self-reliance and the need for India to move towards Atmanirbhar Bharat. He then gave a complete overview of UBA.
He mentioned that Unnat Bharat Abhiyan is inspired by the vision of transformational change in rural development processes by leveraging knowledge institutions to help build the architecture of an Inclusive India.
The Mission of Unnat Bharat Abhiyan is to enable higher educational institutions to work with the people of rural India in identifying development challenges and evolving appropriate solutions for accelerating sustainable growth. It also aims to create a virtuous cycle between society and an inclusive academic system by providing knowledge and practices for emerging professions and to upgrade the capabilities of both the public and the private sectors in responding to the development needs of rural India.
The goals of UBA are to build an understanding of the development agenda within institutes of Higher Education and an institutional capacity and training relevant to national needs, especially those of rural India; to re-emphasize the need for field work, stake-holder interactions and design for societal objectives as the basis of higher education; to stress on rigorous reporting and useful outputs as central to developing new professions; to provide rural India and regional agencies with access to the professional resources of the institutes of higher education, especially those that have acquired academic excellence in the field of science, engineering and technology, and management; to improve development outcomes as a consequence of this research; to develop new professions and new processes to sustain and absorb the outcomes of research and to foster a new dialogue within the larger community on science, society and the environment and to develop a sense of dignity and collective destiny, He explained in detail.
Total 89 faculties and 10 Ph.D scholars participated in the session.