Shillong, July 23: Prof. Prabha Sankar Shukla, Vice Chancellor of North Eastern Hill University, Meghalaya and Prof. G. Singaiah, Vice Chancellor of Birangana Sati Sadhani Rajyik Vishwavidyalaya, Assam visited the Government Achievements and Schemes Expo – 2024 which was held at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi.
Along with the other guests from North-Eastern Hill University namely Prof. SumarbinUmdor, Controller of Examinations, Prof. Shailendra Kumar Singh, Former Dean of School of Technology, NEHU Shilling.
Also, they visited the North Eastern Hill University Stall in the expo where Dr. R. Sasikumar, Nodal Officer, Incubation Centre, NEHU Tura Campus explained about the government achievements under the scheme of A Scheme for Promotion of Innovation, Rural Industry and Entrepreneurship (ASPIRE) and displayed various innovative technologies and products developed by the Incubation team, under the leadership of Dr. R. Sasikumar, NEHU Tura Campus, Meghalaya.
In the Expo, number of institutes were participated from across the country such as Central Universities, NIT’s, IIM’s, Incubation Centres, and State Government departments too, in addition to, the Nodal Officer Dr. R. Sasikumar received award 2nd prizefor the excellent achievements in higher education on behalf of North Eastern Hill University, Meghalaya from the expo organizing committee, New Delhi.
The Incubation Centre, NEHU Tura Campus have been doing various capacity building programme, hands on training, workshops and also Agri-Horti and Apiculture input supports to various farmer cluster groups in collaboration with ICAR-NIBSM, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, under the scheme of North East Hill Program (NEH) for the welfare and socio-economic development in the North Eastern Region (NER).
And this scheme has been implementing since from 2020 under theleadership of Dr. P. K. Ghosh, Director, ICAR-NIBSM and Dr. P. Mooventhan, Senior Scientist, Nodal Officer, ICAR NIBSM, Raipur, Chhattisgarh. In addition, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between ICAR-NIBSM and NEHU under this programme on 2020 for the period of 5 year (2019-2024).
