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Application of science & technology for tribal development

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Guwahati; Tribal Research Institute; 1988Description: 203p. : illSubject(s): DDC classification:
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Summary: Tribal development is an essential part of the entire process of development and it cannot be understood in isolation. In the present days' context of development science and technologies have been playing a very important as well as crucial role. For tribal development also application of science and technology has become more relevant in recent years. But the manner in which science and technologies are to be applied in the tradition bound societies having their own way of life, norms and value systems is a matter of great importance and every step in this respect has to taken very cautiously. In the Tribal Sub-plan of Assam, Science and Techno logy for the first time had appeared as one of the development sectors in 1987-88. With a view to helping the Government by way of suggestions the schemes which were to be implemented under this sector, the Tribal Research Institute, Assam, organised a three-day Seminar on "Application of Science and Technology for Tribal Development" in the District Library Auditorium, Guwahati, from 29th to 31st July, 1987. Distinguished scholars from various disciplines of Sciences, Engineering, Technology and Social Sciences belonging to 21 organisations including the Universities, Regional Research Laboratory, Jorhat, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Shillong Complex, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Shillong Unit, Khadi and Village Industries Commission, Guwahati, etc., had actively participated in the Seminar.
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Tribal development is an essential part of the entire process of development and it cannot be understood in isolation. In the present days' context of development science and technologies have been playing a very important as well as crucial role. For tribal development also application of science and technology has become more relevant in recent years. But the manner in which science and technologies are to be applied in the tradition bound societies having their own way of life, norms and value systems is a matter of great importance and every step in this respect has to taken very cautiously.
In the Tribal Sub-plan of Assam, Science and Techno logy for the first time had appeared as one of the development sectors in 1987-88. With a view to helping the Government by way of suggestions the schemes which were to be implemented under this sector, the Tribal Research Institute, Assam, organised a three-day Seminar on "Application of Science and Technology for Tribal Development" in the District Library Auditorium, Guwahati, from 29th to 31st July, 1987. Distinguished scholars from various disciplines of Sciences, Engineering, Technology and Social Sciences belonging to 21 organisations including the Universities, Regional Research Laboratory, Jorhat, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Shillong Complex, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Shillong Unit, Khadi and Village Industries Commission, Guwahati, etc., had actively participated in the Seminar.

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