NB INSTITUTE FOR RURAL TECHNOLOGY (NBIRT)


                                                  

NEW INITIATIVES

 

Training Cum Common Facilities Centre on Leather Products:

 

NBIRT in association with Deptt. of Welfare for Schedule Castes, Govt. of Tripura has proposed to setup one training cum common facilities centre for leather goods artisans of Tripura at A.D. Nagar, Agartala. The main objective of the centre shall be training of cobblers of Tripura on emerging areas of leather technology. This project includes –

 

Ø      Construction of the training centre including design of the building..

Ø      Installation of plants and machinaries for training as well as production of leather goods.

Ø      Conducting of one year certificate course.

Ø      Entrepreneurship Development programme for the trained artisans.

 

In this connection NBIRT has already entered in to some agreement with one  leather  goods manufacture of Kolkata and Agra.

 

Rural Technology Exhibition (Gramin Udyog – 2006):

 

NBIRT propose to organise one unique “Rural Technology Exhibition” Styled as “Gramin Udyog – 2006” at Arkaneer, Tripura for providing marketing facility for the trained peoples as well as rural artisans of villages. The said exhibition will have the following sections-

 

¨      Textiles

¨      Gift Items

¨      Leather goods.

¨      Food Items

¨      Soft Toys

¨      Handloom and Handicrafts goods

¨      Candle and Agarbati etc

 

 

Arka Barta:

 

The regular quarterly News Bulleting of NBIRT named as ‘Arka Barta’ is published by NB Institute for Rural Technology, Arkaneer, Sekerkote, West Tripura for information dissemination regarding the activities of NBIRT. The Arka Barta is circulated up to Block and Panchayat level.

 

 

Arka Scholarship:

 

To encourage the meritorious students of Tripura, NB Institute for Rural Technology(NBIRT), Arkaneer introduced few scholarship from the year 2004 onward. The duration of the scholarship is 18 months. The scholarship money has been provided by          Wel-wishers of NBIRT. The scholarship is awarded to some meritorious school students through a competitive examination.  

 

Arts & Cultural Programme:

 

Apart from the activities of promotion of science & technology NBIRT also encourage the other activities related to Arts & Culture programmes (Sit & Draw, Essay, Quiz Competition). Every year NBIRT observes its Foundation Day, World Environment Day, National Science Day, Energy Conservation Day etc through befitting programmes.

 

Portable Solar PV Pumping Unit:

 


A Portable Solar PV Pumping system for irrigation has been developed by NBIRT, Kolkata Office under the sponsored programme of Science & Technology Department, Govt. of India. The portable pump has already been developed and now under field trial.

 

Participation of NBIRT in various National Events

 

¨      Sri Surajit Kumar Saha and Sri Anup Dey of NBIRT participated in the “Advisory Committee Meeting under STED project officers” Organised by Science and Technology Department, Govt. of India at Guwahati on 13th May’2004.

 

 

¨      Sri Surajit Kumar Saha project In-charge, STED Programme participated in the Review come monitory workshop for the STED Project on 20 – 21 November’2004 and training programme on project appraisal and Entrepreneur Assessment at EDI, Ahmedabad on 22-27 November’2004.

 

 

¨      Sri H.G.Mondal, project Engineer of West Tripura Building Centre participated in the workshop on structural application of bamboo and bamboo based composites at Kohima from 25th Feb. to 2nd March’ 2005.

 

 

¨      Sri Kapil Baran Bhowmik, Hony. Vice- President, NBIRT and Sri Sushil Choudhuiry, Master Craftsman, NBIRT participated in the training programme on bamboo mat fibre in RV-TIFAC, Bangalore on 15-16 March’2005

 

 

¨      Sri Pradip Sutradhar, Master Craftsman, NBIRT participated in the training programme on use of bamboo as a construction materials in IIT, Delhi from 21st March to 1st April’2005 under the sponsored programme of HUDCO, New Delhi.

 

 

¨      Sri Susanta Karmakar, Project Manager of WTBC participated in Training of Trainers (TOT) for Engineers and Project Managers of Building Centres at IIT, New Delhi from 28th March to 1st April’2005. Programme was sponsored by HSMI, New Delhi.

 

 

¨      Sri Anup Dey, Programme Officer, NBIRT, participated in the workshop on ‘Dissemination of Information’ on Govt. of India sponsored scheme on VAMBAY at Guwahati in the month of October’2005.

 

 

¨      Workshop on Capacity Building in Rural Development at Tripura University, from 26-30 December’2005. Sri Anup Dey, Programme Officer, NBIRT participated in the workshop.

 

 

¨      Sri Surajit Kumar Saha, project In-charge, STED, South Tripura participated in the meeting of the Expert Advisory Committee on Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Project (Review Meeting) at SEEHURD, Bhubaneswar, Orissa on 30th & 31st January’2006. Representative from Assam Centre of NBIRT also participated in the Bhubaneswar meeting and made presentation on STED programme of Assam. 

 

 

Workshop / Seminar/ / Exhibition organised by NBIRT

 

¨      “Rural Technology Exhibition – 2005” specially for food items was held on 25th December to 27th December’2005 at Arkaneer Complex, Tripura to create a marketing facility of artisans of NBIRT as well as other women artisans of villages.

 

 

¨      Workshop / Meeting of Advisory Committee on Entrepreneurship Development Programmes (EDP’s) Technology Based Entrepreneurship Programme (TEDP) was organised by NBIRT at Kurseong from 12th – 14th May’2006. Sr. Officials from DST, Govt. of India and other Institutions participated in the programme. 

 

 

¨      Workshop on Kyoto Protocol and Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project formulation was held on 14th August’2006 at Secretariat Building, Agartala. The programme was organised by NBIRT in association with Forest Department, Govt. of Tripura.

 

 

Training Programme Organised by the Institute duration 2004 -06

 

Sl.No.

Area

Duration

 

No. of trainees

Venue

  1.  

Two Wheelers Repairing and Servicing.

19-04-2004

to

15-07-2004

21 Nos.

Arkaneer

  1.  

Candle Making and Packaging

21-05-2004

to

27-05-2004

15 Nos.

Arkaneer

  1.  

Skill Training Programme on Noodles Making & Packaging

19-06-2004

to

21-06-2004

06 Nos.

Arkaneer

  1.  

National Training Programme on Solar Photovoltaic Business Opportunities

19-06-2004

to

21-06-2004

60 Nos.

Kolkata Centre, NBIRT.

  1.  

Skill Training Programme on Maintenance & Repairing of Domestic Lighting System (DLS)

01-07-2004

to

06-07-2004

23 Nos.

Arkaneer

  1.  

Fast Food Making & Preparation

05-08-2004

to

12-08-2004

19 Nos.

Arkaneer

  1.  

Beautician Course

17-08-2004

to

20-09-2004

14 Nos.

STED CELL (Bagma)NBIRT.

  1.  

Candle Making and Packaging

09-10-2004

to

15-10-2004

09 Nos.

Arkaneer

  1.  

Two Wheelers Repairing and Servicing.

15-10-2004

to

24-12-2004

34 Nos.

Arkaneer

  1.  

Repairing and Servicing of Power Tiller.

15-10-2004

to

24-12-2004

30 Nos.

STED CELL (Bagma)NBIRT.

  1.  

Fibre-Glass Products, Bamboo Products

25-10-2004

to

24-12-2004

20 Nos.

Arkaneer

  1.  

Skill Training Programme on Milk and allied Products.

27-11-2004

to

03-12-2004

20 Nos.

Arkaneer

  1.  

Coloured Fish Production

24-12-2004

to

28-02-2005

30 Nos.

Arkaneer

  1.  

Skill Training Programme on Web Page Making

16-01-2005

to

06-02-2005

 

10 Nos.

Agartala

  1.  

Skill Training Programme on Gadgets Repairing

16-01-2005

to

31-03-2005

20 Nos.

Arkaneer

  1.  

Candle Manufacturing & Packaging.

1-02-2005

to

22-02-2005

13  Nos.

STED CELL (Bagma)NBIRT.

  1.  

Tailoring and Fashion Technology

05-06-2005

to

05-08-2005

18 Nos.

STED CELL (Bagma)NBIRT.

  1.  

Vocational Training Programme for Surrendered Militants

01-06-2004

to

31-05-2005

38 Nos.

Lachi Centre, Belonia

  1.  

Vocational Training Programme for Surrendered Militants

06-08-2005

to

06-02-2007

74 Nos.

Lachi Centre, Belonia

  1.  

Two Wheeler Repairing & Servicing (SIDBI)

07-08-2005

to

30-10-2005

20 Nos.

STED CELL (Bagma)NBIRT.

  1.  

Training Programme on Ferro Cement Based Products.

01-10-2005

to

11-12-2005

20 Nos.

Arkaneer

  1.  

Training Programme on Two and Three Wheeler Repairing & Servicing

08-10-2005

to

31-12-2005

 

30 Nos.

Arkaneer

  1.  

Steel Furniture Making

19-11-2005

to

12-02-2005

 

20 Nos.

Arkaneer

  1.  

New type of Bamboo Products Making.

04-12-2005

to

26-06-2006

 

24 Nos.

Arkaneer.

  1.  

Skill Training Programme on Soft Toys Making

05-02-2006

to

16-04-2006

 

30 Nos.

Arkaneer

  1.  

Training Programme on Solar Domestic Lighting System Repairing & Servicing

12-01-2006

to

18-01-2006

20 Nos.

Arkaneer

  1.  

Two & Three Wheelers Repairing and Servicing.

01-10-2005

to

30-12-2005

15 Nos.

Assam Centre, Guwahati

  1.  

Electrical Wiring

01-10-2005

to

30-12-2005

15 Nos.

Assam Centre, Guwahati

  1.  

Electronics (B/W & Colour TV Service) Repair.

30-12-2005

to

30-03-2006

15 Nos.

Assam Centre, Guwahati

  1.  

EDP Training on Fruits & Vegetables Processing

01-08-2005

to

11-08-2005

 

29 Nos.

STED Centre, Morigoan, Guwahati

  1.  

Advance Beauty Treatment & Therapy

24-09-2005

to

01-10-2005

19 Nos.

STED Centre, Morigoan, Guwahati

  1.  

Making & Repair of Battery.

13-11-2005

to

03-12-2005

18 Nos.

STED Centre, Morigoan, Guwahati

  1.  

Making of Modern Dresses for Women from Local Textiles.

10-12-2005

to

09-01-2006

60 Nos.

STED Centre, Morigoan, Guwahati

  1.  

Skill Training Programme on Repairing, Installation, Servicing of Solar Gadgets (East Timor)