The National Institute of Engineering, Mysore started in 1946, is among the oldest colleges in the country and is affiliated to Vishveshwaraya Technical University.
In late 1980s some of the faculty members realised that there were many technologies for rural development and a lot of research was happening on them all over the world. However, the target group for whom these technologies are designed, namely the rural and the poor were not getting the benefits due to a lack of proper implementation.
Hence, a few of the faculty including Mr. Ravi Kumar took up some space in the campus to house the rural technologies wing of the institute and named it CART, Center for Appropriate Rural Technologies.
Their main activities are to collect all the available information on rural technologies, compile them to form a resource center and find methods to disseminate them to various people needing technological assistance. They give consultation, technical guidance and supervision to all the people who are interested in using the technologies that they promote. Hence, they are not implementers, but are mainly promoters of technology and work in partnership with people involved in the task of implementing.
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