North East centre for Technology application and Reach (NECTAR)

Dept of Science and Technology, Govt of India

Recent Training Initiatives by NECTAR on Geospatial and Drone Technology Sector

NECTAR is an autonomous society, set up under the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India with its headquarters at Shillong, Meghalaya. NECTAR has set up its branch offices in various places of Northeast such as the Techno Demo Centre (TDC) in Guwahati equipped with a state-of-the-art Geospatial Technology Application Hub and Drone including training facility.  Bamboo Technology based training and product centre in BCDI, Agartala. The Centre is in the process of setting up various technology demonstration facilities in Assam Biotech Park, Cotton University, Remote Pilot Training Organisation (RPTO) in JN college Boko etc., NECTAR is continuously assisting and ensuring the upliftment of the people of Northeastern Region by application of appropriate technologies and associated skill development programs in all facets of development.

In the sector of Geospatial Technology, NECTAR has launched four training modules to train and build students and unemployed youths from North East region, converting them as, industry ready professional resource person with the practical and project specific application of GIS and Remote Sensing tools using open source and high value commercial data sets. Modules on Drone Data Acquisition and Processing (DDAP), Drone Awareness Training (DAT) have been introduced. The training modules have been designed to enable them with better Job opportunities in both Government and Private sectors. One batch each, on three modules out of the four, comprising 24, 13 & 21 students respectively, has successfully been conducted in the TDC, Khanapara, Guwahati during April-May 2023. The feedback from the participants is promising and requests for conducting more batches from different colleges, universities and qualified students and youths are being received by NECTAR. NECTAR is making an annual calendar for such training programs at regular intervals.