In a statement issued to media persons, Assistant Controller of Examinations Rakesh Roy said the newly launched courses include four evening diploma courses on GST, retail and sales management, insurance risk management and Spanish language. Two Integrated Masters Degree (IMD) courses on commerce and chemistry are also being launched along with the one year diploma programmes in the university.

Describing the new courses as a novel, Dr Roy stated that these would open up new ways of employment for students. Students who have already qualified their Higher Secondary or its equivalent examinations with at least four subjects including English from any recognised education board or council would be eligible to seek admission in these new courses.

Each of these new courses will allow 60 students to take admission by August 31. The admission process for intake in these programmes have already commenced in the meantime. Courses fees for the one year evening diploma programmes in GST, retail and sales management, insurance risk management and Spanish language were set in self-financing mode and candidates would have to shell out Rs 23,000 per semester for these courses.

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It consists of five machines developed by IIT Kharagpur with four gas-based puffed rice making machines and one motorized de-husker.

This is the third consignment that is sent to Agartala. Around 22 machines have already been provided through earlier consignments, said P.B.S. Bhadoria, Coordinator of the Design Innovation Centre of IIT Kharagpur and Rural Technology Action Group-Eastern India. He heads the inter-disciplinary team at the Institute that has been making a major difference to the lives of the rural population by introducing new rural technology that makes their work easier or upgrading the technology that is already in use.

The two units in IIT Kharagpur making this possible are the RuTAG-EI and DIC. The first was set up in 2008 and the second in 2016 as part of the MHRD’s national initiative for design innovation. RuTAG has connected with more than 50 NGOs in West Bengal, Odisha, Jharkhand and Bihar, improving the life and livelihood of clusters of rural population in these states.

The machine devised by DIC has increased productivity by 500g/hr and is being used in Tripura. The government of Tripura and ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (MDoNER) have invested around Rs 40 lakh for the machines. Also, call for more consignments is increasing to deliver in Tripura and other North Eastern states.

The team is looking out for entrepreneurs to fabricate the machines. Every day they receive calls from distant shores – as far away as Malaysia, California and even Dubai.

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