New Delhi: As part of their efforts towards holistic development of rural India, the IIT colleges would adopt at least 10 villages to identify basic needs and carry out developments through technological interventions.           Â
The mission is being initiated under the Unnat Bharat Abhiyan programme, with IIT, Delhi, being identified as the nodal agency for coordinating the activities.          Â
“Each of the IITs will take up 10 villages towards this initiative,” said R K Shevgaonkar, Director, IIT Delhi.      Â
Early in September, IIT, Delhi, had organised a workshop to prepare a roadmap and an action plan for the program. Â Â Â Â Â Â
The program seeks to involve the IITs, the NITs and other leading technical institutions and organisations in villages for holistic rural development. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
IIT Delhi, which will be celebrating its convocation day on November 1, is ranked among the top engineering institutes in the country and in Asia.       Â
Meanwhile, the HRD Ministry has set up a committee to develop India-specific ranking system in keeping with the wishes of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Factors like international faculty and students don’t apply for Indian institutes and so there was a need for a country-specific ranking, Shevgaonkar said.