Centre for Rural and Entrepreneurship Development

• Majority of rural people and those living in slums require assistance in adopting appropriate technology for enhancing their productivity and standard of living. NITTTR established Centre for Rural Development in the year 1979 to evolve a vast network which can help in adoption of appropriate technologies among the rural people and slum dwellers. Later, realizing the need for rural entrepreneurship to enhance the quality of rural life and to work on that the Centre has been renamed as "Centre for Rural and Entrepreneurship Development".

• Scheme of Community Development Through Polytechnics (CDTP) which was implemented during 2009 in 189 polytechnics in the Southern Region. The scheme was sponsored by then MHRD, Govt. of India, New Delhi. During FY 2017-18 the scheme has been transferred from MHRD to MSDE. The Scheme aims to uplift the rural youth, the school dropouts, the poor, the downtrodden etc.,

• Scheme of Integrating Persons With Disabilities (IPWD) into the main stream of technical and vocational education. Nine Polytechnic Colleges are implementing this scheme in Southern Region.

• The Centre used to conduct Faculty Development Programme (FDP) in Entrepreneurship with an objective to train and develop faculty members from universities, engineering colleges and polytechnic colleges involved or likely to be involved in entrepreneurship related activities.

The major areas of activities under the scheme by the polytechnics are

• Need Assessment Survey

• Skill Development Training Programmes

• Dissemination and Application of Appropriate Technologies

• Technical and Support Services

• Awareness Programmes

The number of polytechnics in each State implementing the Scheme of CDTP

Andhra Pradesh	Telangana	Karnataka	Kerala	Tamil Nadu	Puducherry	Total
29	18	55	31	55	1	189

• Role of NITTTR: To enable the project personnel associated with the implementation of CDTP scheme in their respective polytechnics, the Centre for Rural and Entrepreneurship Development (CRED) of the institute serves as a resource centre. The Polytechnics carryout the activities based on the Annual Operation Plan (AOP) approved by NITTTR. It conducts orientation training programmes, workshops and annual review of the scheme to verify Physical Achievement Report (PAR). Besides, the CRED assists the MSDE in preparation of various progress reports and the expenditure related matters.

• This Scheme promotes education and training of PWDs in the main stream of technical and vocational education and skill development programmes through formal and non-formal Programme.

• Identify suitable education and training programmes for illiterate youth with disabilities, for promoting wage or self employment as far as possible at their place or residence.

• The Centre conducted FDP in Entrepreneurship sponsored by National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India during 2017-18 and 2018-19.

• The Department periodically engaged in revising the content of the training programmes as per the requirement of the clientele system. The Department has revised the Curriculum for M.Tech in Human Resource Development.

• The Department has developed Curriculum for M.Tech in Technology Management (Final Draft) consisting of 23 courses.

• With a view to expose students as well as faculty of academic Institutions four camps of 3 days Entrepreneurship Awareness Camps (EACs) funded by National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development (NSTEDB) were conducted during the FY 2018-19.